Assistance program
PREA Program: Strategic Support for PREA Implementation
$46.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants);Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.735
- What it does
- The goal of this program is to support efforts in the confinement facilities that are covered by the PREA Standards to achieve compliance with the standards. The program’s objectives are to: 1. Reduce sexual abuse in confinement facilities. 2. Increase staff capacity for preventing sexual abuse in confinement facilities. 3. Promote integration of the PREA standards into the day-to-day operations and cultures of confinement facilities. 4. Identify and document innovations and promising practices in order to inform similar efforts across the nation. 5. Create cultures of “zero tolerance†for sexual abuse in confinement facilities. Performance Measure 1: Number of assistance requests from the field (i.e., state, local, and tribal) related to PREA implementation responded to by the PREA Resource Center; and, Performance Measure 2: Number of PREA Audits completed of confinement facilities.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are states, units of local government, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior).
- Authorized by
- Public Law 108-79; 34 U.S.C. § 30301, et seq.
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Public Law 116-260, Statute 134-1182, 1258
- Public Law 117-328
- Program site
- https://bja.ojp.gov/program/prea/overview ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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