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Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI)

FY24 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-level Training and Technical Assistance

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With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support training and technical assistance providers assisting states and jurisdictions to use the Justice Reinvestment Initiative to enhance the fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency of their criminal justice system.

FY 2021 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Crime by Improving Justice System Performance

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This program provides funding to develop and implement innovative and research-based responses that address a range of criminal justice system problems. It employs the Justice Reinvestment approach, which recognizes that every justice agency has a role to play in preventing crime, ensuring a fair and efficient justice system, facilitating appropriate sentencing and treatment, and protecting community security.

Justice Reinvestment Initiative Solicitation Released

BJA is seeking applications for funding through the FY 2020 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Violent Crime by Improving Justice System Performance opportunity. 

The Justice Reinvestment Initiative enables criminal justice systems to improve their business management and operations processes by addressing the complex factors that drive crime and use of criminal justice system resources.

Learn more about this opportunity and apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on May 1, 2020.

BJA FY 18 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Violent Crime by Improving Justice System Performance

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The Justice Reinvestment Initiative is a vehicle for criminal justice agencies and systems to improve business management and operations processes in order to address complex factors that drive crime and use of criminal justice system resources, particularly at the state, local, and tribal, levels. All applicants should propose to meet the objectives and deliverables outlined in this solicitation through the five-step process, modeled on Justice...

BJA FY 18 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: National Training and Technical Assistance

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BJA seeks national training and technical assistance providers and subject experts to help state, local, and tribal jurisdictions pursue a state-level Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) approach, or apply key principles of the JRI approach—data-driven problem analysis and evidence-based solutions—to identify and respond to local crime and other public safety challenges.

BJA FY 17 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Maximizing State Reforms

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Approximately 2.2 million people were incarcerated in federal, state, and local prisons and jails in 2014, a rate of 1 out of every 110 adults. Many prison populations remain near all-time high levels and face crowding or resource challenges, and state spending on corrections has remained high. Over the last 25 years, state corrections expenditures have increased exponentially from $12 billion in 1988 to more...

Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Maximizing State Reforms

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Approximately 2.2 million people were incarcerated in federal, state, and local prisons and jails in 2014, a rate of 1 out of every 110 adults. Many prison populations remain near all-time high levels and face crowding or resource challenges, and state spending on corrections has remained high. Over the last 25 years, state corrections expenditures have increased exponentially from $12 billion in 1988 to more...

BJA FY 15 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-Level Technical Assistance

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The FY 2015 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: State-Level Technical Assistance solicitation seeks technical assistance organizations to assist high-level state policy teams conduct data analysis to understand drivers of incarceration, to formulate policy responses to those drivers, and to design and implement the strategies to reduce incarceration costs and reinvest savings in evidence-based strategies to improve public safety.

BJA FY 15 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Maximizing State Reforms

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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.