NCJ Number
244544
Date Published
2013
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This document provides guidance from the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) on facility-use and property disposition requirements for correctional facilities constructed in whole or in part with funds from the Federal Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in Sentencing (VOI/TIS) Incentive Formula Grant Program.
Abstract
Under the VOI/TIS provisions, the OJP administered grants made between 1996 and 2001 designed to increase inmate bed space for violent offenders by (among other actions) building new correctional facilities or jails or by expanding existing facilities. Although no new VOI/TIS funds have been appropriated since 2001, numerous facilities throughout the Nation were built with VOI/TIS funds. The guidance in the current document addresses the ongoing obligations of the grant recipients regarding the facilities built with VOI/TIS funds. Concerning facility-use requirements, grantees are required to continue using funded property, equipment, or facilities for the originally authorized purposes as long as they are needed for those purposes. Any change in the use of the facilities must be with the permission and under the instructions of the OJP. Four options are specified for any property disposition of VOI/TIS-funded facilities. Under one option, the State may return title to the facility and compensate the funding agency. Another option is for the State to sell the facility and compensate the Justice Department's funding agency. A third option is for the State to transfer title to the funding agency or to another entity designated approved by the funding agency. A fourth option is to direct the proceeds of the sale toward another VOI/TIS-authorized purpose. Each of these options is briefly discussed.