With this solicitation, BJA will award one cooperative agreement to fund an organization to administer a competitive microgrant program and provide training and technical assistance (TTA) to agencies working to protect vulnerable people in prisons, jails, and other confinement settings, and to reduce
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reliance on restrictive or punitive approaches.
Vulnerable people include, but are not limited to, those with one or more physical disability, severe/persistent mental illness, or who are LGBTQ+, youthful inmates in adult facilities, blind, deaf, or non-English speaking.