Fiscal Year 2019

In 2019, as required by the PREA statute, BJA competitively awarded PREA grants to state, local, and tribal agencies to implement plans for creating and expanding “zero-tolerance” cultures for sexual abuse and sexual harassment, including comprehensive approaches to prevention, detection, and responses to incidents of sexual abuse, prioritizing unaddressed gaps either programmatically or through changes in policy and procedures, as they relate to implementation of the PREA standards. Note that the PREA grant program was suspended in Fiscal Years 2016 through 2018 due to limited resourc

Fiscal Year 2019

Alabama Department of Corrections

The recipient will utilize FY19 Implementing the PREA Standards, Protecting Inmates, and Safeguarding Communities to support the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC). Funds will be utilized to reduce sexual abuse in ADOC facilities by instilling a zero tolerance for sexual abuse culture through specialized training for first responders, providing PREA advocacy services, trauma informed care, inmate education, and conducting PREA audits.

Targeted Implementation Planning and Support program

Fiscal Year 2018

The PREA Targeted Implementation Planning and Support (TIPS) program is a federal funding opportunity specifically for locally operated small-to-medium-sized jails, juvenile facilities, community confinement facilities, lockups, and tribal facilities that are seeking to become sexually safer environments through compliance with the federal PREA Standards.

The PREA TIPS program has provided grants to the following sites:

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