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Second Chance Act (SCA)
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There are currently over 2.2 million individuals serving time in federal and state prisons, and millions of people cycle through local jails every year. Of those in state and federal prison, approximately 95 percent will be released and return to communities across the nation. A majority of these individuals have needs that, if unaddressed in prison, during the reentry process, and after release, will negatively impact their ability to live productive, pro-social, crime-free lives in the community. These needs include housing and employment challenges, relationship and family issues, and substance abuse and mental health problems. The Second Chance Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-199) helps to address these significant challenges by providing comprehensive responses to the significant number of incarcerated adults who are returning to communities from prison, jail, and juvenile residential facilities. Goal: The SCA supports state, local, and tribal governments and non-profit organizations in their work to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people returning from state and federal prisons, local jails, and juvenile facilities. Objective: Promote public safety by ensuring that the transition individuals make from prison and jail to the community is successful. These programming services sustain successful community reentry with coordination between government stakeholders including state prisons and local jails, federally recognized Indian Tribal Governments, community-based organizations, faith-based institutions, behavioral health providers, and unrealized stakeholders focusing on transitional support. Performance Measure 1: Number of people served in SCA programs; and, Performance Measure 2: Percent of participants successfully completing the SCA program.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
n FY19, Second Chance Act will compete 4 grant programs for state, local, and tribal governments as well as nonprofit organizations. In addition, 3 solicitations will be released to establish cooperative agreements with national technical assistance provider organizations. Collectively, BJA anticipates over 400 applications for approximately 40 grant awards and cooperative agreements.
Since 2009, more than 840 Second Chance Act grant awards have been made to government agencies and nonprofit organizations from 49 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories for reentry programs serving adults and juveniles. As of December 2017, an estimated 164,000 people returning to their community after incarceration have participated in these programs. Grantees provide vital services—including employment training and assistance, substance use treatment, education, housing, family programming, mentoring, victims support, and other services—to make a person’s transition from prison or jail safer and more successful. The grants also support the improvement of corrections and supervision practices that aim to reduce recidivism. T
Awards for the Second Chance Act Pay for Success Initiative totaled more than $6.5 million. Awards for the Second Chance Act: Adult Reentry Education, Employment, Treatment and Recovery Program totaled more than $26.3 million. Awards for the Second Chance Act Community-Based Reentry Program totaled more than $12.9 million.
Please visit SCA at https://bja.ojp.gov/taxonomy/term/86406 for summary of projects and accomplishments.
The Second Chance Act has provided over $1.2 billion in Reentry investments across housing, employment, education, health and other systems and made a significant impact in the lives of individuals returning to communities from prison and jail. Since 2009, more than 1,100 awards have been made to grantees across 49 states. Second Chance Act grant funds have reached more than 182,000 justice-involved individuals who have participated in either reentry services or parole and probation programs.
Additional information on the impacts of the Second Chance Act can be found at https://www.ojp.gov/safe-communities/from-the-vault/impacts-second-chance-act
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
