BJS FY25 National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) Program, Reference Years (RY) 2025-2029
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-BJS-2025-172528
- Agency
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $4,600,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Information and Statistics
- Eligible applicants
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- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- City/Township Governments
- County Governments
- Special District Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- State Governments
- For Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Points of contact
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- Steven W. Perry askbjs@usdoj.gov (202) 307-0765
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking a qualified agent to conduct data collection for the National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) and National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) through a cooperative agreement. This five-year project will initially fund the first three years of data collection, with the final two years contingent on successful completion of datasets for response years 2025-2027. The selected applicant will collect aggregate and individual-level information on state and federal prison populations, including annual counts of male and female custody populations, prison admissions and releases, demographic data, facility capacities, and HIV/AIDS case information. Eligible applicants include nonprofits, educational institutions, government entities, and for-profit organizations. The proposal is due by February 24, 2026, with the grant opportunity officially posted on January 15, 2026.
The project will require comprehensive data collection across state departments of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, with the awardee also responsible for fielding a supplemental NPS special addendum on a specific topic such as opioid use disorder testing and treatment in prisons. While specific award values are not explicitly stated, similar BJS grants typically range from $300,000 to $4.9 million. The data collection will be conducted annually, with the primary performance location being the awardee's research facilities, focusing on collecting and processing detailed corrections and prisoner statistics that will be used in BJS's Prisoners series and Corrections Populations in the United States series bulletins.
Synopsis
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks an agent to conduct data collection and related activities for the National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS) and the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP). This solicitation will fund the first three years of a five-year award for collection of the NCRP and NPS data; the final two years will be funded upon successful completion of collection, processing, and delivery to BJS of the NPS and NCRP datasets for response years 2025, 2026, and 2027. The awardee will also engage in the fielding of one supplemental NPS special addendum, to collect data on a special topic, for example, on testing and treatment for opioid use disorder in state and federal prisons. The NPS and NCRP are BJS's flagship data collections measuring the size and composition of state and federal prison populations on an annual basis. The two collections complement each other by obtaining aggregate and detailed individual-level information on prisoners, which is used to describe and compare the prison population over time. The NPS collects aggregate counts of the male and female custody and jurisdictional prison populations as of December 31 each year. State departments of corrections (DOCs) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) use administrative records to tally their prison populations by jurisdiction, types of prison admissions and releases during the past year, race/Hispanic origin, and capacity of the facilities that hold prisoners in their custody. The NPS also provides annual information on the number of confirmed cases of HIV/AIDS and current testing policies for these conditions. The NPS has been collected annually since 1926, and data are used in BJS's Prisoners series and Corrections Populations in the United States series bulletins.
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