Past Funding

The FY 2015 Smart Supervision Program seeks to improve supervision success rates and reduce crime, which would in turn reduce admissions to prisons and jails and save taxpayer dollars. Funds can be used to implement evidence-based supervision strategies and to develop innovative strategies to improve outcomes for probationers.

The Statewide Recidivism Reduction Strategic Planning Program will provide $100,000 awards to State Departments of Correction to develop Planning & Implementation guides to serve as the basis for an application for funds to implement a comprehensive reentry program to effect a reasonable reduction in the documented statewide recidivism rate.

The FY 2015 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Maximizing State Reforms Competitive Grant challenges units of state government and federally recognized Indian tribes to design and implement a strategy to further the goals of a state’s existing justice reinvestment reform efforts, including the commitment to data-driven decisio nmaking and investment in evidence-based practices and programs.

There are a multiple states, counties, cities, and tribes that are interested in implementing Swift, Certain, and Fair (SCF) models of supervision with offenders in the community. This interest has grown out of the potential promise that these SCF models have shown in effectively reducing recidivism and preventing crime.

The Tribal Justice Systems Infrastructure Program (CTAS Purpose Area 4) provides funding to renovate buildings to enhance conditions in or to change the use of a building to any of the following purposes: single jurisdiction or regional Tribal correctional facilities, correctional alternative facilities, multipurpose justice centers (including police departments, courts, and corrections), and transitional living facilities (halfway houses) associated with the incarceration and rehabilitation of juvenile and/or adult offenders.

To engage in comprehensive justice system-wide strategic planning to improve Tribal justice and community wellness and safety including activities outlined in TLOA such as strategic planning and the development of a Tribal Action Plan (TAP).

To develop, enhance, and continue Tribal justice systems including: alcohol and substance abuse prevention, law enforcement, pretrial services, risk and needs assessment development and implementation, diversion programming, Tribal court services, healing to wellness courts, intervention and/or treatment, detention programming, community corrections, reentry planning and programming, justice system infrastructure enhancement, justice system information sharing, etc. To respond to and prevent alcohol- and substance abuse-related crimes.