Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

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Number of Awards: 59
Total Amount Awarded: $44,756,615

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
2013	Massachusetts Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Committee for Public Counsel Services	MA	2013-DY-BX-K006	$613,205	Closed
2014	Massachusetts Evidence Inventory and Innocence Case Review Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Committee for Public Counsel Services	MA	2014-DY-BX-K003	$391,345	Closed
2009	Maryland Postconviction DNA Analysis	NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Governors Office of Crime Control And Prevention	MD	2009-DN-BX-K241	$307,000	Closed
2012	MD Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	State of Maryland	MD	2012-DY-BX-K005	$510,324	Closed
2010	MD Postconviction DNA Testing Assiatance Program	NIJ FY 10 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Governors Office of Crime Control And Prevention	MD	2010-DY-BX-K006	$48,298	Closed
2012	SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project	NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	State Appellate Defender Office	MI	2012-MU-BX-K012	$429,087	Closed
2014	SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	State Appellate Defender Office	MI	2014-DY-BX-K004	$337,314	Closed
2015	Sentinel Events: A Sustainable Model for System Change	NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2015-R2-CX-K041	$724,294	Closed
2015	WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project: Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent in Michigan	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University	MI	2015-DY-BX-K008	$418,099	Closed
2009	Minnesota Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance	NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Judiciary Courts of the State of Minnesota	MN	2009-DN-BX-K239	$859,527	Closed
2010	Minnesota Justice Coalition: Postconviction DNA Testing Initiative	NIJ FY 10 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Judiciary Courts of the State of Minnesota	MN	2010-DY-BX-K007	$253,534	Closed
2007	Reduction of False Convictions Through Improved Identification Procedures: Further Refinements for Street Practice and Public Policy	NIJ FY 07 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence	Augsburg College	MN	2007-IJ-CX-0046	$236,577	Closed
2011	Reviewing cases in Minnesota where DNA is dispositive of innocence.	NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	JUDICARY COURTS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA	MN	2011-DY-BX-K002	$658,348	Closed
2009	North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission grant application for Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	State of North Carolina	NC	2009-DN-BX-K247	$566,980	Closed
2012	2012 North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission grant application for the NIJ Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program.	NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts	NC	2012-DY-BX-K001	$761,111	Closed
2015	2015 Postconviction DNA Testing Program	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts	NC	2015-DY-BX-K001	$565,639	Closed
2018	Decontamination of Crime Scene Equipment: Evaluating Current Methods and Determining Best Practices	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2018-DU-BX-0226	$171,041	Closed
2017	A Post-Conviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance as a Pathway to Exoneration	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	Rutgers University-Newark	NJ	2017-IJ-CX-0012	$31,771	Closed
2009	US DOJ Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	New Mexico Department of Public Safety	NM	2009-DY-BX-K246	$924,648	Closed
2014	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	New Mexico Department of Public Safety	NM	2014-DY-BX-K005	$620,269	Closed
2012	FY12 Postconviction New York City Joint Working Group on Postconviction DNA-Testing	NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services	NY	2012-DY-BX-K003	$1,256,344	Closed
2008	2008 Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program	NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Texas Office of the Governor	TX	2008-DN-BX-K169	$500,000	Closed
2014	Case Deconstruction of Criminal Investigative Failures	NIJ FY 14 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	Texas State University	TX	2014-IJ-CX-0037	$389,690	Closed
2009	A Proposal for Social Science Research on Wrongful Conviction	NIJ FY 09 ORE Social Science Research on Exoneration	George Mason University	VA	2009-IJ-CX-0110	$589,315	Closed
2008	Governor-mandated Post-Conviction DNA Testing of Biological Evidence in Case Files	NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Virginia Department of Forensic Science	VA	2008-DN-BX-K128	$4,520,295	Closed