Core Capacity Building Project - Measuring Criminal Justice System Performance
2019-86-CX-K017
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$81,119
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 A.M. EST BJS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1999 202/307-0784
MORE THAN THREE-QUARTERS OF PRISONERS
HAD ABUSED DRUGS IN THE PAST
WASHINGTON, D.C. Fifty-seven percent of
state prisoners and 45 percent of federal
prisoners surveyed in 1997 said they had used
drugs in the month before their offense--up from
50 percent and 32 percent reported in a 1991...