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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
Amount: $225 million
Overview: provides resources to improve the capacity of state and local criminal justice systems, and to provide assistance to victims of crime (other than compensation).
Eligible Entities: national, state, regional, or local public and private entities,including for-profit (commercial) and nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education, and tribal jurisdictions.
Overview: The JAG Program, administered by OJP's Bureau of Justice Assistance, allows states , tribes,and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and improve the criminal justice system Eligible entities: States and local governments; Sixty percent of the allocation is awarded to the state and 40 percent is set aside for units of local governments. See listing below of state administering agencies.
This report is based primarily on interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch in the United States in 2008 with individuals possessing direct knowledge of the medical care provided to women in immigration detention. In these interviews and visits to nine detention facilities, Human Rights Watch investigated care for a range of women's health concerns and collected information regarding each type of facility where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies govern health care.
This report presents findings about violent crime and property crime experienced by the Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population in the United States.
Through dozens of interviews with police officers, public officials, criminalists, rape treatment providers, and rape victims, the report documents the devastating effects of the backlog on victims of sexual abuse.
