Just Detention International, Inc.

Just Detention International, Inc. is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California, that provides training, technical assistance, policy analysis, and litigation support on sexual abuse prevention and victim advocacy in detention facilities to federal agencies as both a prime grantee and prime contractor, supplemented by subgrant work under other federal recipients.

JDI operates predominantly as a federal grant recipient through the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), which accounts for 15 of its 25 total federal awards (60% of the prime footprint). The organization also holds two federal service contracts: a $1.24 million Firm Fixed Price definitive contract with the Department of Homeland Security's Immediate Office of the Secretary (awarded July 2023, completion date April 2025) to provide conditions of detention subject matter expertise for the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in investigating detention conditions in Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection facilities; and a $22,375 purchase order from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (awarded August 2023, completed July 2024) for litigative consultant services supporting the Southwest Key case. The DHS award carries the bulk of JDI's contract potential value ($1.24 million of $1.3 million combined), though combined dollars obligated across all awards ($8.9 million) exceed potential value by 684%, reflecting upward obligation patterns characteristic of cooperative agreements and TA initiatives.

On the grant side, JDI acts as prime recipient on five OVW Technical Assistance Initiative cooperative agreements (CFDA 16.526) spanning sexual assault victim services in correctional facilities. Representative awards include a $450,000 cooperative agreement (awarded August 2026, completion July 2028) to implement the Sexual Assault Victims in Correctional Facilities Project, providing training and technical assistance to rape crisis centers, sexual assault coalitions, and corrections agencies on serving currently and formerly incarcerated survivors; a $750,000 cooperative agreement (October 2023, completion September 2026) for the Rooted in Resilience project, which builds capacity for trauma-informed art workshops in detention and reentry facilities nationwide; and a $749,999.83 cooperative agreement (awarded October 2022, completion September 2025) under the Victims of Crime program (CFDA 16.582) for the Restoring Youth project, delivered in partnership with The Love More Movement, focusing on sexual abuse survivor services in youth detention facilities serving communities of color, LGBTQ+ youth, and youth with disabilities. A continuation award (October 2022, completion September 2025) under the OVW TA Initiative Purpose Area 2 supports training and technical assistance to rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and correctional facilities on serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated sexual assault survivors and connecting released survivors to community-based services.

JDI also operates as a subrecipient under multiple federal grants, working as a sub-grantee to the California Office of Emergency Services on sexual assault victim services initiatives within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; as a support partner to UCLA's Integrated Substance Abuse Programs on an evaluation of a Healing Arts Workshop for Incarcerated Survivors under OVW funding (awarded July 2025); as a sub-recipient under Respect Together's OVW Male Survivors Project (awarded December 2024); and as a subrecipient supporting Impact Justice's PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) resource center work (awarded April 2024).

Recent activity shows modest but steady federal engagement. Awards total 25 across prime and sub channels over the past several years, with two to five awards per year between 2022 and 2025, and two awards recorded in 2026. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete pressure. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue (prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold) totaled $108 thousand across fiscal years 2023–2025, with $97 thousand in FY2024 and $11 thousand in FY2025, representing a minimal subset of JDI's total federal activity — the organization's primary federal footprint is grant-based, not contract-based. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts ran at $262.19 per hour, and JDI performed all work directly (0% subcontractor hours on SCI-reported prime contracts).