FY 2013 Justice Assistance Grant Program

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 program 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 state of Hawaii will support the following five major program areas: 1) law enforcement programs; 2) prosecution and court programs; 3) corrections and community corrections programs; 4) drug treatment and enforcement programs; and 5) planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs. Hawaii's JAG strategy addresses five major criminal justice program areas that need resources in order to increase public safety; address violent crime, property crime, drug threats, and drug related crime; reduce offender recidivism; and provide offender reentry and technology improvement efforts.

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