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FY 2023 Federal Deaths in Custody Reporting Program Supplement

Closing Date
Per the Federal Deaths in Custody Reporting Act statute (P.L. 113 242), the head of federal law enforcement agencies are required to submit a report that contains information regarding the death of any person while that person is detained, under arrest, or in the process of being arrested by federal law enforcement officers or while in custody. In response to the legislation, BJS was designated...

FY 2023 Statistical Support Program Supplement

Closing Date
Award funds to assess the feasibility of restarting the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts and the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts Trials on Appeal data collections, using new approaches.

FY 2023 Access to Justice Design and Testing Program

Closing Date
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Application JustGrants Deadline
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks a vendor to support research and testing activities related to development of a new data collection that will measure access to justice for civil legal needs. As the Department's principal federal statistical agency, BJS is responsible for the collection, analysis, publication, and dissemination of statistics on crime, criminal offenders...

FY 2023 Survey of Prison Inmates Research and Development

Closing Date
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Application JustGrants Deadline
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has periodically collected information through personal interviews with people in prisons since 1974 (see Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) at https: bjs.ojp.gov data collection survey prison inmates spi.) The purpose of this award is to provide funding for a collection agent to update and field test the existing 2016 SPI...