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Plan, Develop, or Enhance Alternatives to Incarceration and Community Corrections

Award Information

Award #
2012-IP-BX-K001
Location
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
Total funding (to date)
$896,511

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $326,511)

The goal of the Tribal Justice System Capacity Building TTA Program is to strengthen tribal governments' ability to plan, implement, and enhance tribal justice systems to be able to prevent, control, and investigate crime; to effectively administer justice; and to meet the needs of the community. The FY 2012 Tribal Justice System Capacity Building TTA Program will focus on funding national TTA efforts within five categories: enhancing tribal and state collaborations; comprehensive strategic planning; building tribal capacity to plan, develop, or enhance diversion and community corrections capacity; enhancing tribal justice information sharing efforts; and other tribal justice system capacity building TTA efforts. The programs funded will provide TTA to: assist tribes in using data to inform justice system strategic planning, implementation and enhancement; integrate the rich community values of tribal cultures in tribal justice systems and programs; foster tribal and state collaboration to address jurisdictional and legal issues with regard to law enforcement, courts, corrections and reentry within Indian Country, including tribal justice based relationships with service providers; build capacity for community-based alternatives to incarceration; enhance tribal justice information sharing; and meet other tribal justice system capacity building needs.

The Council of State Governments/American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) will partner with the Pretrial Institute and the Fox Valley Technical College Criminal Justice Center for Innovation to build the capacity of tribal jurisdictions to plan, develop, or enhance their community corrections programs by focusing on community supervision strategies including pretrial services, correctional options/alternatives to incarceration, and reentry services through the development and delivery of training, provision of technical assistance, and development of a web-based template repository. The project partners will work closely with tribes in planning for and developing the infrastructure necessary to design, develop, and support justice system responses to crime from intake to reentry. This will be accomplished through the development and delivery of training, provision of technical assistance, and development of a web-based repository of resources. CA/NCF

Date Created: August 21, 2012