PR Dept Corrections & Rehab

The Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Federal Affairs Office Division, a child entity of the Puerto Rico Commonwealth, operates as a recipient of federal grants focused on criminal justice and substance abuse treatment services, not as a federal contractor. The agency does not hold federal contract vehicles and does not compete as a prime contractor; its footprint consists entirely of federal grant funding routed through the Department of Justice and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The agency's capability portfolio centers on residential substance abuse treatment, juvenile justice system improvement, and correctional facility infrastructure and safety. As a prime grant recipient, it operates evidence-based residential treatment programs for incarcerated individuals across facilities in Arecibo and San Juan with capacity for over 150 residents, delivers after-school services and family strengthening services to prevent juvenile delinquency, and implements prison safety infrastructure including camera surveillance and sexual abuse prevention (PREA) standards training. Representative prime awards include a $639,938 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Formula Grant (CFDA 16.540) from the Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (award date July 1, 2026, performance period through June 30, 2030) supporting education, prevention, and information-sharing services; and a $241,293 Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Formula Grant (CFDA 16.593) from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (award date October 1, 2024, performance period through September 30, 2028) for comprehensive residential treatment with housing, medical care, counseling, and family support services.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance dominates the portfolio with 20 awards; FEMA Headquarters Financial Assistance rounds out the top two with 18 awards; and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs contributes 10 additional awards. Together these three customer entities account for 98% of the fifty-two recorded awards. The portfolio skews heavily toward sub-grant work — 44% of awards are sub-grants flowing from state and Commonwealth-level administrative recipients (predominantly the Governor's Authorized Representative and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice) to the Corrections and Rehabilitation agency. Activity has been volatile, declining from eleven awards in 2022 to two in 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete pressure near term. The agency's recent sub-grant work includes projects numbered PW-3858 through PW-3882 (September 16, 2025 award date), infrastructure mitigation programming (April 4, 2023), and PREA standard implementation and staff capacity reinforcement (November and December 2022 award dates from the Puerto Rico Department of Justice).