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Drug Courts
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Facts and Figures
This section provides the latest information and statistics.
According to the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Drug Court Clearinghouse Project, there were:
- 2,038 fully operational drug courts in the United States and 226 that were in the planning stages, as of June 2009 (Summary of Drug Court Activity by State and County, 2009).
- 482 juvenile, 272 family, and 24 combined (juvenile and family) drug courts that were fully operational in the United States and 51 juvenile, 34 family, and 3 combined drug courts that were in the planning stages, as of June 2009 (Summary of Drug Court Activity by State and County: Juvenile/Family Drug Courts, 2009).
- 83 fully operational tribal drug courts in the United States and 35 tribal drug courts that were in the planning stages, as of June 2009 (Summary of Drug Court Activity by State and County: Tribal Drug Courts, 2009).
According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report, Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts, 2005, which describes cases handled by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction, the number of drug law violation cases were relatively flat from 1985 through 1993 (increasing 17%), rose sharply (up 109% from 1993 through 1997), and then leveled off through 2005 (down 3% from 1997 through 2005) (Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts, 2005, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2009).
According to data compiled from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, presently constructed from source files provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, "Between 1984 and 1999, the number of defendants charged with a drug offense in the Federal courts increased from 11,854 to 29,306" (Federal Drug Offenders, 1999 with Trends 1984-99, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2001).
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