The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) allows states and units of local government, including tribes, to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own state and local needs and conditions. Grant funds can be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice, including for any one or more of the following purpose areas: 1) law enforcement programs; 2) prosecution and court programs; 3) prevention and education programs; 4) corrections and community corrections programs; 5) drug treatment and enforcement programs; 6) planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs; and 7) crime victim and witness programs (other than compensation).
The Missouri Department of Public Safety will use supplemental JAG funds to support a Wrongful Convictions Demonstration Project. Funds will be used to provide local agencies an avenue of funding to purchase recording equipment to implement programs to record custodial interrogations. These efforts are intended to reduce the number of false confessions and increase the reliability of confessions as evidence. NCA/NCF
