Risk Assessment: Conducting Prison Security Audits
Grant Opportunity Analysis
The National Institute of Corrections is seeking applications for a FY 2026 cooperative agreement to coordinate, facilitate, and manage a prison security audit training program with measured remediation support. The work centers on enhancing corrections agencies’ ability to conduct security audits and includes curriculum review, readiness protocol improvement, program delivery, faculty development, audit reporting, and post-audit support. The program is a 12-month effort built around a 36-hour hands-on training model that combines an in-brief, classroom instruction, prison-based audit work, and an executive closeout, and applications will be reviewed on programmatic, organizational, and management/administrative merit. The award ceiling is $175,000, there is no cost sharing requirement, and applications are due July 20, 2026 through Grants.gov.
Eligible Applicants
NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required. NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant, and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization. NIC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.