16.844: Combatting Contraband Cell Phone Use in Prisons

16.844

Inactive

Office of Justice Programs (OJP) [DOJ]

Sept. 21, 2022

Sept. 21, 2022

Goals: Effectively assist correctional agencies to develop a tactical approach for combatting cellphone contraband including policy reviews, operational orders, security overhaul, staff training, and meeting the mandates of authority established by other federal agencies with oversight provision. Objectives: Provide best practices including: • technological solution implementation on comprehensive contraband interdiction systems for state and local governments; • Resources and tools to enhance staff training for institutional corrections staff; • Make available competitive sub-awards to correctional facilities to implement technologies that prevent and limit cell phone contraband and provide technical assistance on reviewing policies, procedures and technology implementation; • Conduct effective case studies and maintain documentation on the interactions, training, procurements, developments and other processes with the grantees selected to receive sub-awards; • Develop model policies, operational orders, and training curricula for state and local correctional agencies, to include cataloguing warrant language and state-level statutes, based on the respective case studies conducted for grantees selected to receive sub-awards; • Make information publicly available including via an online toolkit or other agreed upon means.

B - Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements or Contracts)

Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), faith-based organizations, and consortiums with demonstrated experience in providing training and technical assistance on a national level in the identified subject areas. All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee. BJA welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees). The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one application per lead applicant will be considered; however, an applicant may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in multiple proposals.

Not Applicable

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