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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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Subtopic: Correctional facilities

Number of Awards: 92
Total Amount Awarded: $47,172,845

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Young Adults in Jails NIJ FY 15 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Vera Institute of Justice NY 2015-IJ-CX-0012 $500,407 Closed
1996 WORKING WITH TECHNOLOGY IN CORRECTIONS National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards American Correctional Association VA 1996-LB-VX-K004 $99,605 Closed
2007 UWB Enhanced Time Difference of Arrival System NIJ FY 07 Sensors and Surveillance Technologies: Invited Full Proposals Intelligent Automation, Inc. MD 2007-RG-CX-K179 $300,000 Closed
2011 Unobtrusive Suicide Warning System NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations General Electric Company NY 2011-IJ-CX-K003 $249,928 Closed
2009 Unobtrusive Suicide Warning System NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations General Electric Company NY 2007-DE-BX-K176 $318,662 Closed
2010 Under the Penal Gaze: An empirical examination of penal consciousness among prison inmates NIJ FY 10 ORE Ph.D.Graduate Research Fellowship Program Regents of the University of California CA 2010-IJ-CX-0002 $24,950 Closed
2015 To conduct this research, we will survey public state and federal adult prisons. The purpose of the survey is two-fold. First, it will provide us with needed descriptive information regarding the type NIJ FY 15 Office of Science and Technology Continuations CNA Corporation VA 2013-R2-CX-K002 $30,000 Closed
2009 Time Difference of Arrival System for cell phone localization in correctional facilities NIJ FY 09 Technology Research and Development Intelligent Automation, Inc. MD 2007-RG-CX-K179 $450,288 Closed
2011 Time Difference of Arrival System for cell phone localization in correctional facilities NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Intelligent Automation, Inc. MD 2011-IJ-CX-K002 $249,978 Closed
2017 The Racial Effects of Prison Reform NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE CA 2017-IJ-CX-0033 $500,000 Closed
2005 The National Corrections and Law Enforcement Training and Technology Center (NCLETTC) NIJ/Office of Science & Technology Continuations WVHTC Foundation WV 2005-DD-BX-K187 $986,643 Closed
2013 The Impact of Safety Equipment Modalities on Reducing Correctional Officer Injuries NIJ FY 13 The Impact of Safety Equipment Modalities on Reducing Correctional Officer Injuries CNA Corporation VA 2013-R2-CX-K002 $307,774 Closed
2006 The Impact of Incarceration on Young Offender Recidivism Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007 The Regents of the University of California CA 2007-IJ-CX-0007 $20,000 Closed
2016 The Impact of Correctional Officer Suicide on the Institutional Environment and on the Well-being of Correctional Employees Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2016-MU-MU-0010 $500,000 Closed
2001 Tenth National Survey of HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB in Correctio National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Abt Associates Inc. MA 2001-IJ-CX-K018 $202,414 Closed
2012 Stress Biomarkers Among Patients Undergoing Treatment for Excited Delirium and Severe Pain in the Emergency Department NIJ FY 12 Determining the Relationship between Stress and Unexplained In-Custody Deaths Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation MN 2012-R2-CX-K007 $338,747 Closed
2009 Santa Cruz Research Partnership NIJ FY09 Building and Enhancing Research Researcher-Practitioner/Policymaker Partnerships County of Santa Cruz CA 2009-IJ-CX-0208 $314,768 Closed
2004 Risk Markers for Sexual Vulnerability and Violence in Prison: Development of a Risk Classification System for Male and Female InmatesResearch on Prison Sexual ViolenceU.S. Department of Justice Research on Prison Sex Violence University of Virginia VA 2004-RP-BX-0004 $397,647 Closed
2018 RF Fingerprinting for Contraband Wireless Devices Identification, Detection and Tracking in Correctional Facilities. NIJ FY18 Communications Technologies Research and Evaluation for Law Enforcement and Corrections Applications MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY MS 2018-75-CX-K002 $599,121 Closed
2018 Restoring Promise: A randomized control trial examining the impact of innovative young adult housing on reducing violence NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation in Corrections VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE, INC. NY 2018-75-CX-0021 $750,000 Closed
2019 Resource Facilitation: A promising initiative shown to decrease recidivism in exiting offenders with traumatic brain injury Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, FY 2019 RHI FOUNDATION INC IN 2019-R2-CX-0030 $792,751 Open
2015 Research on Contraband and Interdiction Modalities Used in Correctional Facilities NIJ FY 15 Research on the Efficacy of Different Contraband Interdiction Modalities Used in Correctional Facilities THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2015-IJ-CX-K001 $499,999 Closed
2014 Reducing Prison Misconduct with Evidence-Based Administrative Segregation Policies NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Cincinnati OH 2014-IJ-CX-0003 $32,000 Closed
2007 Raytheon's Approach to a Passive mmW High-Throughput Concealed Weapons Detection Portal NIJ FY 07 Sensors and Surveillance Technologies: Invited Full Proposals Raytheon Company CA 2007-DE-BX-K180 $494,974 Closed
2015 Racialized Cues and Support for Justice Reinvestment: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Opinion NIJ FY 15 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime University of Massachusetts Boston MA 2015-IJ-CX-0003 $144,329 Closed