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CRIS Program - Criminal Justice Improvement Grants
 
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Title Criminal Justice Improvement Grants
Agency Department of Public Safety
Governor's Crime Commission
Web http://www.ncgccd.org/pdfs/priorties/2008_cji.pdf
Description To encourage proactive and innovative programs and methodologies that reduce and discourage drug use and associated problems, and to enhance all aspects of criminal justice processing, including the incarceration and treatment of offenders and general improvements in justice system operations. Grants awarded under this program fall within the following priorities: law enforcement block grants; drug enforcement and interdiction grants; pre-trial services grants; re-entry grants; innovative criminal justice program grants; and investigative overtime grants. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis to agencies to start new and innovative programs.
Grantee Eligibility State and local units of government, educational institutions, social service agencies, and non-profit, non-govermental agencies
Fund 14900-1710
State $7,010,195.00
Federal $28,073,821.37
Other Other Amount not specified
Funding Year 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009
Keywords corrections,  criminal justice,  drug abuse,  law enforcement training,  public safety,  research and development,  substance abuse,  law enforcement equipment
Assistance project grants