The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, USPL 90-351, Title I, 82 stat.197 (1968), as amended, provides funds to the states, through the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT) Program, to develop or enhance substance abuse treatment programs for offenders. The Act authorizes the U.S. Attorney General to award formula grants for substance abuse treatment programs in state and local correctional facilities.

The RSAT Program was administered by the Corrections Program Office, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Recent re-organization, now places the RSAT Program under the Bureau of Justice Assistance, OJP, USDOJ.

On Guam, the State Administrative Agency (SAA) for the RSAT Program is the Bureau of Statistics and Plans. The RSAT Program is implemented by the Guam Department of Corrections.

Description of Program

The purpose of the RSAT program is to develop and implement residential substance abuse programs that provide individual and group treatment activities for offenders in residential facilities operated by state and local correctional agencies. The RSAT Program requirements include the following:

• Last between 6 and 12 months. Each offender must participate in the program for not less than 6 or more than 12 months, unless he or she drops out or is terminated.
  
  
• Be provided in residential treatment facilities set apart from the general correctional population. Set apart means a totally separate facility or a dedicated housing unit within a facility exclusively for use by program participants.



• Focus on the substance abuse problems of the inmate.



• Develop the inmate's cognitive, behavioral, social, vocational, and other skills to solve the substance abuse and related problems.



• Implement or continue to require urinalysis and/or other proven forms of drug and alcohol testing.



• Preferably, participation in the RSAT Program should be limited to inmates who have 6 - 12 months left in their term of confinement so that they can be released from prison after completing the treatment program, rather than being returned to the general prison population.

Description of Program

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program allows states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system. The Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program replaces the Byrne Formula and Local Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG) programs with a single funding mechanism that simplifies the administration process for grantees.

The procedure for allocating JAG funds is a formula based on population and crime statistics, in combination with a minimum allocation to ensure that each state and territory receives an appropriate share. Traditionally, under the Byrne Formula and LLEBG Programs, funds were distributed 60/40 between state and local recipients. This distribution continues under JAG.

Active Grants

• Fiscal Year 2005 Justice Assistance Grant Program



• Fiscal Year 2006 Justice Assistance Grant Program

The LLEBG Program originated in the HR 728 Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grant Act of 1995, as passed by the House of Representatives. The Omnibus Fiscal Year 1996 Appropriations Act (USPL 104-134) authorized the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to make funds available to units of general purpose local government under the LLEBG Program for the purposes of reducing crime and improving public safety. BJA was authorized to administer the LLEBG Program. On Guam, the State Administrative Agency (SAA) for the LLEBG Program is the Bureau of Statistics and Plans.

Description of Program

The purpose of the LLEBG Program is to provide units of general purpose local government with funds to underwrite projects to reduce crime and improve public safety. By law, these projects must be funded in accordance with the seven (7) legislatively mandated purpose areas.

• Purpose Area 1a: Supporting the hiring, training, and employing of additional law enforcement officers and necessary support personnel on a continuing basis;
  
  
• Purpose Area 1b: Paying overtime to presently employed law enforcement officers and necessary support personnel to increase the number of hours worked by such personnel; and
  
  
• Purpose Area 1c: Procuring equipment, technology, and other material directly related to basic law enforcement functions.
  
  
• Purpose Area 2: Enhancing security measures in and around schools and in and around any facility or location that is considered to have special risk for incidents of crime.
  
  
• Purpose Area 3: Establishing or supporting drug courts.
  
  
• Purpose Area 4: Enhancing the adjudication process of cases involving violent offenders, including the adjudication of cases involving violent juvenile offenders.
  
  
• Purpose Area 5: Establishing a multijurisdictional task force to prevent and control crime, particularly in rural areas, composed of law enforcement officials representing units of general purpose local government and Federal law enforcement officials.
  
  
• Purpose Area 6: Establishing crime prevention programs involving cooperation between community residents and law enforcement personnel to control, detect, or investigate crime or to prosecute criminals.
• Purpose Area 7: Paying for costs of indemnification insurance for law enforcement officers.