---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10421"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10421"
heading: "Grant authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10421"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners"
---

# §10421. Grant authorization

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make grants under this subchapter to [States](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3), for use by [States](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) and units of local government for the purpose of—
  - (1) developing and implementing residential substance abuse [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) programs within [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) correctional facilities, as well as within local correctional and detention facilities in which inmates are incarcerated for a period of time sufficient to permit substance abuse [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15);
  - (2) encouraging the establishment and maintenance of drug-free prisons and jails; and
  - (3) developing and implementing specialized residential substance abuse [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) programs that identify and provide appropriate [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) to inmates with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders or challenges.
- (b) **Consultation—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall consult with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) to ensure that projects of substance abuse [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) and related [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) for [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) prisoners incorporate applicable components of existing comprehensive approaches including relapse prevention and aftercare [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51).
- (c) **Additional use of funds—** [States](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) that demonstrate that they have existing in-prison drug [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) programs that are in compliance with Federal requirements may use funds awarded under this subchapter for [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) and sanctions both during incarceration and after release.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1901, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 32101(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1898; amended Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title II, §§ 2101, 2102(1), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1792; Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title XIV, § 14012, Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1297.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796ff of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1901 of Pub. L. 90–351 was renumbered section 2601 and is classified to section 10541 of this title.

### Amendments

2016—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 114–255 added par. (3).

2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–273, § 2102(1), substituted “purpose of—” for “purpose of”, inserted par. (1) designation before “developing”, and added par. (2).

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 107–273, § 2101, added subsec. (c).