Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ): Design and Testing

Post Date

March 4th 2015

Application Due Date

May 4th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

BJS-2015-4131

CFDA Number(s)

16.734

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Information and Statistics

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligible applicants are units of local government (including federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), national, regional, state, or local public and private entities, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), that support initiatives for improving the functioning of the criminal justice system.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1000000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applications for funding to conduct research on the instrument and sampling design and to create and pilot test an instrument and sampling method for the next iteration of the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ). BJS anticipates making one award for a 24-month period between October 2015 and October 2017. A separate solicitation for the national implementation of the SILJ will be announced after this project is completed. BJS seeks a single instrument and data collection operation that can be used to gather data from a probability sample of male and female jail inmates. Depending on survey costs and inmate interview time, the instrument will collect data compatible with the same 10 domains covered in past versions of the jail inmate survey. BJS also may expand the number of domains to include current issues to be determined by, but not limited to, consulting with the awardee and jail experts; working with focus groups and expert panels; and assessing stakeholder feedback.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  Cathy Maston
  Management and Program Analyst
  Phone 2023075992

• Agency Mailing Address:

  General Information

• Agency Email Address:

  cathy.maston@usdoj.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Justice Statistics

• More Information:

  Program Announcement