Grantee Program Resources

Tribal Justice System Infrastructure Program

The Tribal Justice System Infrastructure Program (TJSIP), Purpose Area 4 under the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS), was established to further the Department’s efforts to assist tribes in developing effective strategies to cost effectively renovate and/or expand existing facilities associated with the incarceration and rehabilitation of juvenile and adult offenders subject to tribal jurisdiction. Any awards under this solicitation would be made under statutory authority provided by a full-year appropriation act.

Tribes may use funds under Purpose Area 4 (TJSIP) to support the renovation and/or expansion of a new or existing facility to provide:

a correctional/detention facility to include adult and juvenile incarceration;
a multipurpose justice centers, which could include police department, courts, and corrections; and
for renovation of correctional facilities, that are no longer considered safe and secure to serve as holding facilities, to serve as a transitional living facility or halfway house.

To request assistance please use the - Technical Assistance Request Form (The form is writeable if opened in the Chrome browser)

Addressing Violent Crime in Tribal Communities

The Addressing Violent Crime in Native Communities Program is funded through Purpose Area #10, under the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS). The program is designed to provide key funding to Tribal justice systems to focus on combating, addressing, or otherwise responding to precipitous increases in crime at the tribal level, especially violent crime. Strategies should also seek to enhance the capacity of Tribes to track, identify, and quickly respond to these crime issues. This includes enhancing critical planning and coordination/task force efforts between tribes and needed federal, state or law enforcement, prosecution, courts, and corrections agencies responsible for the investigation of and response to serious and violent crime.

Purpose Area #10 supports the critical and priority needs of Tribal justice systems to address

Precipitous increases in crime and violent crime and to ensure tribal safety through the development, implementation, and enhancement of strategies, including the following:

To track, identify, and quickly respond to these increasing crime issues using data and ongoing analysis. This can include efforts to determine the nature and extent of violent crime issues including the reported issues of missing and murdered Native Americans and Alaskan Natives.
To enhance efforts to prevent and respond to violent crime in tribal communities, including investigations, forensics, prosecutions, information sharing, and supervision and re-entry in coordination with critical key federal and state partners.
To enhance the number and quality of violent crime investigations and prosecutions, including collaborative efforts such as the Tribal Prosecutor Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (SAUSA) Program. This includes investments in tools for tribal prosecutors, courts, and corrections to effectively respond to crime and related tribal safety.

To implement enhanced authorities and provisions under TLOA and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013.

Enhancing Tribal, Federal, State, Local, Intergovernmental Collaboration and Law Enforcement

The Intergovernmental Collaboration program (IGC) is funded under the BJA Tribal Justice CTAS Training and Technical Assistance Solicitation. The program is designed to increase awareness by tribal, state, and local government officials of the benefits of collaborative problem solving and planning and replicate promising practices for improving public safety in tribal communities through various collaboration methods. Services focus on topics that include and not limited to:

collaborative partnerships;
understanding and developing mutual aid agreements;
protocols for inter-jurisdictional relationships;
protocols for conducting community corrections-related activities; and
full faith, and credit agreements.

Memorandum of Understanding - Tribal and State Agreement

To request assistance please use the - Technical Assistance Request Form (The form is writeable if opened in the Chrome browser)

Under the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS), the BJA offers funding to eligible tribal grantees through Purpose Area #3: Tribal Justice Systems. BJA has structured Purpose Area 3 to be as broad and flexible as possible to support a variety of Tribal justice programs. The overall purpose of Purpose Area #3 is to provide key funding to Tribal justice systems to develop, support, and enhance adult and juvenile Tribal justice systems and the prevention of violent crime and crime related to opioid, alcohol, and other substance abuse. Key partners can include law enforcement, pretrial services, risk and needs assessment development and implementation, diversion programming, Tribal prosecutors, Tribal court services, detention programming, community corrections, re-entry planning and programming, justice system infrastructure enhancement, and justice system information sharing.

Purpose Area #3 supports the critical and priority needs of Tribal justice systems, to prevent crime and to ensure Tribal safety through the development, implementation, and enhancement of strategies, including, but not limited to the following:

To enhance the tools and resources for Tribal prosecutors, courts, and corrections agencies, including Tribal probation and Tribal jails, and to effectively respond to crime and related Tribal safety.
To implement enhanced authorities and provisions under the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 and to support the development of joint jurisdiction courts with state and local courts.
To ensure safety through coordinated support for the re-entry of returning Tribal members from federal or state prison sentences.
To develop, enhance, and continue programs to improve the safety and effectiveness of Tribal law enforcement officers such as planning for and developing their own law enforcement agency, law enforcement support as part of a larger strategy in PA #3, or court security issues such adding an officer at the courthouse to improve court security.
To develop, implement, and enhance substance abuse and crime prevention, interventions, and alternatives to incarceration to address crime related to the opioid epidemic. This can include opioid, alcohol, and other substance abuse and related crime prevention; healing to wellness courts; intervention; or treatment, including those that prevent and address the needs of drug-endangered children.

To request assistance please use the - Technical Assistance Request Form (The form is writeable if opened in the Chrome browser)

BJA Advisors & Partners

Bureau of Justice Assistance

Program Resources and Requesting Technical Assistance

To request assistance please use the - Technical Assistance Request Form (The form is writeable if opened in the Chrome browser)

If you have any questions about events, please contact Lynnette Morin by phone at 701.777.6306 or email lynnette.morin@und.edu.