Opportunity ID
NIJ-2016-9086
Solicitation Status
Closed
Fiscal Year
2016
Closing Date
Posting Date
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Description
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks innovative research proposals to empirically assess pressing issues in institutional corrections. Interested applicants should submit proposals that address any of the three categories below. NIJ anticipates that up to $8 million may become available for awards under this solicitation.
1. Advancing science: Responding to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences.
2. Understanding the use of restrictive housing.
a. An examination of the use of restrictive housing in state and/or federal prisons.
b. Assessing the use of restrictive housing in jails.
c. Understanding the impact of restrictive housing on the mental health of inmates and staff in prison and how working in restrictive housing varies from working in the general population.
d. A review of step down programs available in restrictive housing environments in U.S. prisons and jails.
3. An examination of correctional officer safety and wellness: The impact of fatal and non-fatal work-related injuries on the corrections institution.
Awards
Number of Awards: 7
Total Amount Awarded: $4,910,579
Altering Administrative Segregation for Inmates and Staff: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Effects of Living and Working in Restrictive Housing
2016-R2-CX-0115
Open
Funding First Awarded
2016
$631,559
Examining the Use and Impact of Restrictive Housing
2016-IJ-CX-0013
Open
Funding First Awarded
2016
$452,452
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Restrictive Housing in America's Prisons and Jails
2016-IJ-CX-0016
Open
Funding First Awarded
2016
$1,410,096
Pathways Linking Parental Incarceration and Child Well-being
2016-IJ-CX-0012
Open
Funding First Awarded
2016
$500,000
The Impact of Correctional Officer Suicide on the Institutional Environment and on the Well-being of Correctional Employees
2016-MU-MU-0010
Open
Funding First Awarded
2016
$500,000
The Impacts of Restrictive Housing on Inmate Behavior, Mental Health, and Recidivism, and Prison Systems and Personnel
2016-IJ-CX-0014
Open
Funding First Awarded
2016
$730,615
Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women''s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)
2016-MU-MU-0011
Open
Funding First Awarded
2016
$685,857
Date Created: February 17, 2016