NCJ Number
160527
Date Published
1994
Length
173 pages
Annotation
Since its inception in 1987, the Edward Byrne Memorial Formula Grant Program has funded drug law enforcement, crime intervention, and crime prevention programs in Ohio.
Abstract
The Formula Grant Program supports Ohio's criminal justice strategy in three basic ways: (1) funding multijurisdictional law enforcement and prosecution projects targeting the most serious offenders; (2) funding innovative community corrections and crime prevention projects; and (3) serving as the model for project evaluation to foster project accountability and identify effective crime prevention initiatives. Activities funded between July 1993 and June 1994 by the Formula Grant Program included the Multijurisdictional Narcotics Trafficking Task Forces which seized over $7 million in criminal assets. More drug traffickers were sentenced to Ohio prisons as a result of task force success in targeting mid-to-upper level drug traffickers. Also in 1994, Ohio's Office of Criminal Justice Services funded 35 victim assistance projects. These projects provided victims with such services as counseling, case management, shelter, and other community services. In addition, 37 crime prevention projects received funding in 1994, with block watches comprising 75 percent of these projects. Other projects funded under the Formula Grant Program focused on community corrections and crime prevention, laboratory drug analysis, pharmaceutical diversion, day reporting center projects, improved criminal history data, criminal justice personnel training, repeat violent offender prosecution, adult and juvenile institutional programming, adult and juvenile community sanctions, and the TASC (Treatment Alternative to Street Crime) Program. Project activities are summarized and evaluated. References and tables