Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Compensation Grants Awarded to the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Bismarck, North Dakota

• NCJ Number: 309377
• Date Published: September 2023
• Length: 30 pages

Annotation

This paper reports on the Justice Department’s audit of North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s implementation of its crime victim compensation program; it describes the Office of the Inspector General’s audit approach, objectives, results, conclusions, and recommendations; and includes five appendix documents.

Abstract

This audit report describes the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG’s) investigation of how the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) designed and implemented its crime victim compensation program. The document reports on the audit process, which included an assessment of the following areas of grant management: program planning and execution; program requirements and performance reporting; and grant financial management. The document discusses the OIG’s audit approach and audit results, with details on the following areas: grant program planning and execution, noting ongoing outreach plans and denied compensation claims; program requirements and performance reporting; and grant financial management, noting grant expenditures, drawdowns, and financial reporting. The audit report also provides a section of conclusions and recommendations. The five appendixes include: Objective, Scope, and Methodology; a schedule for dollar-related findings; North Dakota DCR response to the Draft Report; the Office of Justice Programs response to the Draft Report; and the OIG analysis and summary of actions necessary to close the Audit Report.