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Drug Courts - 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:

• 430 juvenile, 191 family, and 18 combined (juvenile and family) drug courts that were fully operational in the United States and 99 juvenile, 82 family, and 4 combined drug courts that were in the planning stages, as of November, 2006 (Summary of Drug Court Activity by State and County: Juvenile/Family Drug Courts, 2006).
  
  
• 62 fully operational tribal drug courts in the United States and 53 tribal drug courts that were in the planning stages, as of November, 2006 (Summary of Drug Court Activity by State and County: Tribal Drug Courts, 2006).

• According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report, Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2002, which describes the delinquency and status offense cases handled between 1985 and 2002 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction, "the number of drug law violation cases increased 159% between 1985 and 2002" (Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2002, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2006).
• According to data compiled by the BJA Drug Court Clearinghouse Project from 131 of the 150 juvenile drug court programs in operation as of January 1, 2001, 63% of juvenile drug court participants were living with one parent at program entry (52% with a biological mother, 8% with a biological father, and 3% with a step-parent) (Juvenile Drug Court Activity Update: Summary Information, BJA Drug Court Clearinghouse Project, 2001).
• 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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