Learn more about BJS’s activities in June 2025. Click on the heading below for details.
BJS released report on 2024 JAG program calculations
BJS released Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program, 2024. This report describes the steps used to calculate the Edward Byrne Memorial JAG formula-based award amounts and presents summary results of the fiscal year 2024 calculations. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 merged two grant programs to establish the JAG program. The Bureau of Justice Assistance administers the program, and BJS calculates the award amounts. The JAG program provides states, territories, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of criminal justice areas. States and localities receive funds based on their resident population reported by the U.S. Census Bureau and on violent crime data reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
BJS released report on HIV in prisons
This web-first report, HIV in Prisons, 2023 – Statistical Tables, presents national- and jurisdiction-level estimates of the number and rate of persons living with HIV while in the custody of state and federal correctional authorities at yearend 2023. The report also provides findings on HIV testing practices during the intake process, while in custody, and during discharge planning, by jurisdiction.
Estimates are based on data collected as part of BJS’s National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) program. The NPS program collects annual data on prisoners at yearend from the 50 state departments of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. BJS has been using the NPS to collect these data since 1991.
Now available: New report on law enforcement training academies
BJS released State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies’ Training Topics and Instructors, 2022 – Statistical Tables. This report describes the number and types of basic training curricula of state and local law enforcement training academies in the United States in 2022. Findings in the report are based primarily on the 2022 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA), the fifth iteration of the data collection.
Conducted periodically since 2002, CLETA collects information from training academies that are responsible for administering mandatory basic training to newly appointed or elected law enforcement officers on recruits, staff, training curricula, equipment, and facilities. These academies are operated by state, regional, county, and municipal agencies and by universities, colleges, and technical schools. Academies that provide only in-service training are excluded from CLETA.
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