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Funding Available to Support Prison Rape Elimination Act Activities

The FY 2021 Implementing the PREA Standards, Protecting Inmates, and Safeguarding Communities funding opportunity is now available.

The purpose of this program is to assist confinement facilities and the agencies that oversee them in preventing, identifying, and responding to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in these facilities, and to support compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards.

The deadlines associated with this opportunity are as follows:

  • Grants.gov deadline: April 20, 2021
  • JustGrants application deadline: May 4, 2021

Learn more about this opportunity.

Date Modified: February 1, 2021

Deadline dates were updated to reflect a four week extension.

Date Published: January 6, 2021