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| DOJ awards $32.6 million for prisoner drug treatment |
| By JoinTogether.org |
| Published: 05/02/2005 |
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The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs has awarded $32.6 million nationwide for alcohol and other drug abuse treatment services for inmates through its Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program (RSAT). State and local correctional facilities will receive funding from RSAT, which is designed to "focus on the substance abuse problems of the inmate and develop [his or her] cognitive, behavioral, social, vocational, and other life skills to solve substance-abuse and related problems ... [both] within the institution and in the community after a prisoner is released," according to a press release. Larger states such as California will receive a proportional bulk of the funding - as much as $3.3 million - while smaller states as Vermont will receive as little as $150,000. Funding is allocated based on the ratio of state prison population to the overall prison population nationwide. More than 70 percent of local prison inmates have been incarcerated because of drugs or drug-related offenses, or report using drugs. Of the 600,000 men and women released each year, there is 67-percent recidivism within three years. |
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