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City of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Grants
    4
  • Total Awarded
    $4,815,000
  • Years
    2015 - 2020
  • Categories
    Criminal Justice

Grants

2020 (3 years)
$1,165,000

The City of New Orleans is a member of the first cohort of jurisdictions to participate in the Safety and Justice Challenge Network, the centerpiece of the Foundation’s strategy to address over-incarceration by reducing jail misuse and overuse and disparities in jail usage. This award enables New Orleans to build on and secure progress achieved during previous rounds of implementation funding in reducing jail populations, increasing fairness, and advancing racial equity while sustaining local system reform momentum.

2018 (5 years)
$2,000,000

New Orleans is an original member of the Safety and Justice Challenge Network (the Network), the centerpiece of the Foundation’s strategy to address over-incarceration by reducing jail misuse and overuse and disparities in jail usage. Under previous awards, New Orleans engaged in a structured, collaborative process to identify local drivers of unnecessary jail incarceration, generated an ambitious plan to address them, and implemented the plan over a two-year period with technical assistance and guidance from a consortium of national experts. This award enables New Orleans to sustain and expand its reform work, implementing changes across an array of criminal justice processing and decision points with the goal of safely achieving further reductions in local incarceration and reducing racial and ethnic disparities.

2016 (3 years 2 months)
$1,500,000

Following a national competition in 2015, the City of New Orleans (New Orleans) was among 20 jurisdictions selected for inclusion in the Safety and Justice Challenge Network, the centerpiece of the Foundation’s strategy to address over-incarceration by reducing jail misuse and overuse. A previous award supported New Orleans’ participation in a structured data analysis and planning process, assessing local drivers of jail incarceration, setting reduction targets, and developing a plan to achieve them. Resulting plans were scored by an expert panel on the basis of ambition, comprehensiveness, and achievability, and 11, including New Orleans’, were selected for implementation funding on the basis of this review. This two-year award enables New Orleans to institute changes aimed at reducing local incarceration and disparities in jail usage in accordance with its implementation plan.

2015 (3 years)
$150,000

Twenty jurisdictions have been selected, following a nationwide competition, to participate in the Safety and Justice Challenge Network of sites committed to finding ways to safely and sustainably reduce unnecessary jail incarceration. The Safety and Justice Challenge Network is at the core of the Foundation’s initiative to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. Awards to these jurisdictions support their participation in a structured data analysis and planning process aimed at assessing drivers of local incarceration and developing multi-stakeholder action plans to address them.