DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY & CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (DPSCS)
16.202 OFFENDER REENTRY PROGRAM
Program Description: Combined effort between DOJ, HHS, and DOL, assisting in challenges presented by the return of offenders from prison to the community. Improves risk management of released offenders by enhancing surveillance and monitoring, strengthening individual and community support systems, and repairing harm done to victims. Helps address the continuing problem of offenders entering the community after incarceration without surveillance, accountability, or resource investment.
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 34,219$494,011$ 466,676
Program Supported / Population Served:
Maryland Reentry Partnership Initiative / 222; BaltimoreCity
16.554 NATIONAL CRIMINAL HISTORY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Program Description: Enhances the quality and completeness of the nation’s criminal history record systems. Provides financial and technical assistance for establishment or improvement of computerized criminal history record systems, and in efforts to collect data on stalking and domestic violence. Improves data accessibility and supports data transmissions to the national system. Provides immediate identification of persons prohibited from purchasing firearms subject to domestic violence protective orders, or ineligible to hold positions of responsibility involving children, the elderly, or the disabled. Supports development of accurate and complete state sex offender identification and registration systems, which interface with the FBI’s Sex Offender Registry and meet applicable federal and state requirements. Develops and improves processes identifying, classifying, collecting, and entering data regarding stalking and domestic violence into local, state, and national crime information databases. Ensures that criminal justice systems are designed, implemented, or upgraded to be compliant with the FBI operated National Instant Criminal Background Check System and InterState Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Supports a wide range of technology based criminal justice information, identification, and communications needs.
Formula Description: A 10% cash or in-kind match is required.
FY09 (exp) FY10 (approp) FY11(est)
$ 572,232$ 339,869$ 488,016
Program Supported / Population Served:
Criminal Justice Information System / Statewide
16.576 CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION
Program Description: Funds awards of compensation benefits to crime victims. States may retain up to 5% of their total grant for administrative purposes. Crime victim compensation programs are eligible if the program is operated by the State and offers compensation to victims and survivors of victims of criminal violence, including terrorism, drunk driving, and domestic violence.
Awards may compensate for: (a) medical expenses attributable to a physical injury resulting from a compensable crime, including expenses for mental health counseling and care; (b) loss of wages attributable to a physical injury resulting from a compensable crime; and (c) funeral expenses attributable to a death resulting from a compensable crime.
Formula Description: Beginning in FY 03, the formula is based on 60% of the amounts awarded by the state from state funding sources during the preceding fiscal year, other than amounts awarded for property damage. The state must certify that the federal funds received under the program will not supplant state funds otherwise available for victim compensation.
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 2,300,000 $ 2,500,000 $ 3,100,000
Program Supported / Population Served:
Crime Victim Compensation / Statewide
16.580EdwardByrneMemorialState and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Discretionary Grants Program
Program Description: The Comprehensive Anti-Gang Activity Strategy enhances efforts by law enforcement andother groups to bring community gang awareness and prevention education to citizens. Under this grant, a specially trained Community Gang Awareness/Prevention (CGAP) Specialist will develop and conduct regional training for law enforcement and others to assist them in presenting gang awareness training to the community. The CGAP Specialist will also provide gang awareness education to various community groups.
Program Supported:
Comprehensive Anti-Gang Activity Strategy Grant / Statewide
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$1,111$65,675$42,089
16.601CORRECTIONS TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT
Program Description: Provides assistance for upgrading the operation of correctional programs at State and local levels through seminars, workshops and training programs for probation and parole personnel, correctional personnel and others connected with the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal and juvenile offenders.
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp) FY11 (est)
$ 0$ 15,000$ 15,000
Program Supported / Population Served:
Correctional Programs and Services / Statewide
16.606 STATE CRIMINAL ALIEN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Program Description: Provides payments to states and localities incurring correctional officer salary costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens with at least one felony or two misdemeanor convictions for violations of state or local law, who are incarcerated for at least four consecutive days during the reporting period.
Formula Description: Payments are calculated using a formula providing a relative share of funding to jurisdictions applying. The formula is based on the number of eligible criminal aliens, as determined by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security.
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 1,277,619$ 1,845,364$1,400,000
Program Supported / Population Served:
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program / Statewide
16.735 PROTECTING INMATES AND SAFEGUARDING COMMUNITIES DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM (PREA)
Program Description: The Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Program, a result of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, supports states in their efforts to prevent and eliminate prisoner rape between inmates in state and local correctional facilities and to safeguard the communities to which inmates return.
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 414,528$ 0$ 0
Program Supported / Population Served:
Prison Rape Elimination Act / Statewide
16.750 SUPPORT FOR ADAM WALSH ACT IMPLEMENTATION GRANT PROGRAM
Program Description: The Adam Walsh Act (AWA) Implementation Grant Program assists state, local, and tribal jurisdictions with developing and/or enhancing programs designed to implement requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) under AWA. In summary, SORNA requires: (1) all States, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes to maintain a sex offender registry; and (2) sex offenders to register and maintain a current registration in each jurisdiction where the offender resides, is an employee, or is a student. SORNA also sets forth requirements for sex offender registries, to include: specified required information, duration of registration, and in-person verification of sex offender identity as well as participation in the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry
Program Supported / Population Served:
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) / Statewide
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 0$ 93,000$ 43,000
20.615E-911 Grant Program
Program Description: Formula grant to provide grant funding for the implementation and operation of Phase II enhanced 911 services and for migration to an IP-enabled emergency network. Grant funds awarded may be used only for the acquisition and deployment of hardware and software that enables the implementation and operation of Phase II E-911 services, for the acquisition and deployment of hardware and software to enable the migration to an IP-enabled emergency network, or for the training in the use of such hardware and software, provided such uses have been identified in the State 911 Plan.
Program Supported / Population Served:
9-1-1 Grant Program / Statewide
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 0$ 0$ 955,681
AA.Q00 REIMBURSEMENT FROM FEDERAL MARSHAL FOR HOUSING FEDERAL PRISONERS
Program Description: The Attorney General, in support of U.S. prisoners in non-federal institutions, is authorized to make payments from funds appropriated for the support of U.S. prisoners for: (1) necessary clothing; (2) medical care and necessary guard hire; (3) housing, care, and security of persons held in custody of a U.S. marshal pursuant to federal law under agreements with state or local units of government or contracts with private entities; and (4) entering into contracts or cooperative agreements for the necessary construction, physical renovation, acquisition of equipment, supplies, or materials required to establish acceptable conditions of confinement and detention services and guaranteed bed space for federal detainees within the correctional system.
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 13,450,647$ 13,417,657$ 14,074,333
Program Supported / Population Served:
Housing at MCAC and BCDC / BaltimoreCity
AA.W00 ASSET SEIZURE FUNDS
Program Description: The Marshals Service administers the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Program by managing and disposing of properties seized and forfeited by federal law enforcement agencies and U.S. attorneys nationwide. The program has become a key part of the federal government's efforts to combat major criminal activities. There are three goals of the Asset Forfeiture Program: enforcing the law; improving law enforcement cooperation; and enhancing law enforcement through revenue. An ancillary purpose of the program is to enhance cooperation among federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through the equitable sharing of forfeiture proceeds.
Program Supported / Population Served:
Asset Forfeiture Program
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$ 2,310$ 0$0
AB.Q00 OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL DETENTION TRUSTEE
Program Description: Provides funds to design and construct the first of two 560-bed compounds for the Jessup Community Correctional Facility within the Jessup correctional complex. This project was added to the Department’s capital budget because the federal government has offered to provide $20 million (half in FY 2010 to build the first compound) toward the building of the new facility in exchange for increasing the number of federal detainees housed at the MarylandCorrectionalAdjustmentCenter.
Program Supported / Population Served:
Inmate Housing at Jessup
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)FY11 (est)
$0$ 10,000,000 PAYGO$ 0
SWF503 STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUNDS – DISCRETIONARY/ARRA
FY09 (exp)FY10 (approp)*FY11 (est)*
$0$ 49,744,851$ 49,744,851
*Funds for salaries and wage, overtime, utilities, and food supplies/services.