NCJ Number
169247
Date Published
1998
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This chapter presents statements given at a press conference on December 18, 1995, the day President Bill Clinton signed a presidential directive calling for drug testing of Federal arrestees.
Abstract
Employers have accepted responsibility to reduce drug use in the workplace and teachers and coaches have accepted responsibility to reduce drug use in the schools. It is time for agencies in the criminal justice system to do everything they can to reduce drug use by Federal arrestees, to break the cycle of drugs and crime which puts criminal addicts back on the street committing more crimes and back into the criminal justice system still hooked on drugs. With this directive, persons entering the criminal justice system will be tested. If an individual refuses to be tested, that is reported to the judge and is taken into consideration when bail and the conditions of bail are set. The conditions may include continued testing, supervision and certain conduct or the arrestee may be kept in jail because conditions would not ensure drug-free status upon release to bail. The Attorney General has determined that these proceedings are constitutional.