Cooperative Agreement SMX53023CA4040

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (INL) under the Criminal Justice Systems program (CFDA 19.703), will support the Mexican state prison systems in offering technical training, formal education, and job placement services to incarcerated individuals. The $475,330.41 award, effective from November 2024 to October 2026, will be implemented by the Mexican non-profit organization Fortis Consultoría SC....

This $395,656 Project Grant awarded by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is for a research and evaluation study on the implementation and effectiveness of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in addressing sexual violence in carceral settings. The study, conducted by the Urban Institute, aims to: 1) comprehensively explore strengths and challenges in PREA implementation; 2) elucidate PREA practices identified as most promising for increasing safe access to...

This $898,792 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) supports a research study examining the relationship between incarcerated individuals' participation in structured activities and outcomes related to their health, safety, and quality of life, as well as the impact on correctional staff. The CNA Corporation, a non-profit research organization, will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $202,504 to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills to conduct research on the implementation of the "Nordic Model" of incarceration in the United States. The research will examine how principles like human dignity, normalization, and resocialization have been translated for U.S. correctional settings, the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $204,183 to Wake Forest University to conduct research on the experiences and impacts of community supervision programs in both the criminal justice and immigration systems. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate how state actors enforce compliance with supervision requirements, 2) understand how supervised individuals and their families experience...

The Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor awarded a $1,000,000 project grant to Campana Global POR La Libertad De Expresion A19 AC of Mexico under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (CFDA 19.345) program. The grant will fund efforts from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 to contribute to collective memory building and the right to truth of victims of gross human rights violations and society in general within the transitional...

This $216,778 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study to assess how the design of transitional justice institutions in post-conflict and post-authoritarian countries affects public opinion and long-term national outcomes like regime type and conflict recurrence. The research team will employ a mixed-methods approach, combining survey experiments in Colombia,...

This $288,747 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a collaborative research study on the legitimacy and efficacy of transitional justice institutions in Colombia, Iraq, and Ukraine. The principal investigators will employ a mixed-methods approach, combining survey experiments, qualitative evidence from focus groups and interviews, and original cross-national data, to investigate three key...

The University of New Mexico (UNM), in partnership with (De)Serving Life, received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The goal of this 3-year project is to examine parole decision-making, juvenile lifer reentry, and juvenile sentencing in New Mexico following the passage of the No Life Sentences for Juveniles Act (2023). The project will employ an action research model to...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs awarded a $357,035 Project Grant to the Panamanian non-profit organization Fundacion Jesus LUZ De Oportunidades under the Criminal Justice Systems (CFDA 19.703) program. This grant, awarded on March 18, 2024, supports the implementation of a comprehensive psychological care project in Panama's penitentiary centers with the goal of reducing criminal recidivism. The project utilizes a Psychology Laboratory...