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Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program
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The application period for this grant is now closed.
Use the information below to help you start preparing for next year. For more funding opportunities for your department, please check our Currently Open Grants »

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Eligibility
States (defined as the 50 U.S. states, District of Columbia, and U.S. territories) are eligible to apply for this solicitation. States are encouraged to apply in partnership with local units of government.

How can the Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program help your corrections department?

  • Supports efforts to prevent and eliminate prisoner rape between inmates in state and local prisons, jails, and police lockup facilities and to safeguard the communities to which inmates return
  • Assist states and local jurisdictions in ensuring that budget cuts don't compromise efforts to protect inmates and to safeguard communities upon the inmate's reentry
  • Easier application: apply directly for these funds using a guided online grant management system
  • CHIEF offers the free services of grant consultants to assist you throughout the application process **

For full details, eligibility requirements and application guidelines, go to the Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program homepage »

Application Deadline: CLOSED

Sponsor:
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Department of Justice (DoJ)

What is the program?
BJA established the Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program in FY 2004. Funding was made available to states to support efforts to prevent and eliminate prisoner rape between inmates in state and local prisons, jails, and police lockup facilities and to safeguard the communities to which inmates return.

The two main goals of the Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program are to assist states and local jurisdictions in ensuring that budget cuts don't compromise efforts to protect inmates and to safeguard communities upon the inmate's reentry. Applicants may apply for funding under the Protecting Inmates portion, the Safeguarding Communities portion, or both. Allowable activities under the grant program include:

  1. Protecting Inmates
    1. Undertaking efforts to more effectively prevent incidents
    2. Investigation of incidents
    3. Prosecution of incidents
  2. Safeguarding Communities
    1. Technical assistance and training to state and local governments on moderating growth without compromising public safety
    2. Utilization of prison population analysis and development of risk assessment instruments to reduce the risk associated with reentry
    3. Mapping of returning offenders and services
    4. Development of collaborative efforts with appropriate state and local governments and public and private service systems to understand and address the needs/risks involved when victims and sexual aggressors reenter a community
    5. Development of policies/programs to reduce revocations without compromising public safety

In accordance with the provisions of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) conducts training, technical assistance, and education programs for federal, state, and local authorities responsible for the prevention, investigation, and punishment of instances of prison rape. Grantees and nongrantees that are interested in learning more about NIC's training and technical assistance program should visit www.nicic.org

Funding: FY 2005 funding was approximately $20 million and will be awarded in FY 2006.

Links to help with your Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program application: ***