Survey of Prison Inmates Statistical Support Center (SPISSC)

Post Date

April 19th 2016

Application Due Date

June 10th 2016

Funding Opportunity Number

BJS-2016-9840

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 national, regional, state, or local public and private entities, including for-profit (commercial) and nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and units of local government that support initiatives to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1000000

• Award Range:

  $500000 - $1000000

Grant Description

The Bureau of Justice StatisticsДш╙ (BJS) Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI), formerly known as the Surveys of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, is used to collect and analyze data from state and federal prisoners, and to produce national statistics on the U.S. prison population. BJS seeks an agent to implement the Survey of Prison Inmates Statistical Support Center (SPISSC) project. The SPISSC is designed to provide scientific and technical support for statistical and methodological research, statistical analyses, data linkage, documentation, and dissemination services in support of SPI; enhance the utility and relevance of BJSДш╙s statistical reporting program from the SPI and other federal sources of data that complement the SPI; increase the use of the SPI data, including by researchers to focus on key challenges that face the correctional field and strategies for dealing with them, and to provide non-statistical audiences translational products to increase the use of these statistics to the larger community of stakeholders and practitioners. The SPISSC will enhance BJSДш╙s efforts to expand its capacity to analyze SPI data and leverage administrative records to supplement the survey data, document the analyses and expand on the survey documentation, and increase the understanding and use of the SPI data by the broader research and stakeholder communities, thus increasing the breadth of substantive issues that SPI addresses in both the short run and longer term.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  askbjs@usdoj.gov
  Lauren.Glaze@usdoj.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  General Information

• Agency Email Address:

  Lauren.Glaze@usdoj.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Justice Statistics

• More Information:

  Program Announcement