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Drug Courts

The Drug Courts program provides grants and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal governments to establish drug courts. These courts break the cycle of substance abuse and crime by providing non-violent offenders with subtance abuse treatment while keeping them under court supervision.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has developed good long-term and annual performance measures with ambitious targets and timeframes for tracking reduced recidivism and improved public safety in drug court communities.
  • The program has achieved its target of the percent of drug court participants who graduate from the drug court program
  • The program needs to demonstrate that it collaborates and coordinates sufficiently with other agency drug court grant programs, particularly with respect to adult and family drug courts.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving the program design and implementation by focusing on the coordination between the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and other agencies.
  • Conducting a comprehensive needs analysis to determine how future funding should by allocated: geographically and by type of drug court (adult, family, and juvenile).
  • Completing a rigorous evaluation of outcomes associated with OJP drug court grantees.

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