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BJA FY26 Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Assaults in Confinement Facilities Program

Bureau of Justice Assistance · Opportunity O-BJA-2026-172674

Who can apply

• State governments
• County governments
• City or township governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Native American tribal organizations (other)
• Others

For the purposes of this NOFO, “state and local prosecuting agencies” include state, county, and municipal government offices that are authorized to prosecute criminal offenses on behalf of the government; For the purposes of this NOFO, “other units of local government” include towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state; For the purposes of this NOFO, “publicly funded law enforcement agencies” are law enforcement agencies funded by States, federally recognized Tribes, or units of local government.

About this opportunity

This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the BJA FY 2026 Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Assaults in Confinement Facilities Program. This opportunity supports state, local, and tribal efforts to enhance their capacity to investigate and prosecute incidents of sexual assault in confinement facilities. State agencies, law enforcement, and prosecutorial agencies may utilize this funding for investigative and prosecutorial activities to decrease incidents of sexual assault in confinement facilities and increase the rate of successful prosecutions in such cases.

Award history — PREA Program: Strategic Support for PREA Implementation (Assistance Listing 16.735)

This program made about 37 new awards per year over the last five fiscal years.

New awards recorded on USAspending.gov under the federal program that funds this opportunity. FY2025 figures may still be incomplete. Bureau of Justice Assistance does not publish how many applications it receives, so a true success rate cannot be computed for this program — no one can honestly sell you that number.

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