---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10591"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10591"
heading: "Grants authorized"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10591"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXIX — Grants for Family-Based Substance Abuse Treatment"
---

# §10591. Grants authorized


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make grants to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), units of local government, territories, [nonprofit organizations](/usc/34/11103.md?p=23), and [Indian Tribes](/usc/34/11103.md?p=18) to—

- (1) develop, implement, and expand comprehensive and clinically-appropriate family-based substance abuse [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) programs as alternatives to incarceration for [nonviolent parent drug offenders](/usc/34/10596.md?p=1); and
- (2) to[^1] provide [prison-based family treatment programs](/usc/34/10596.md?p=3) for incarcerated parents of minor children or pregnant women.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The word “to” probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2921, as added Pub. L. 110–199, title I, § 113, Apr. 9, 2008, 122 Stat. 674; amended Pub. L. 114–198, title II, § 201(c)(1), July 22, 2016, 130 Stat. 714; Pub. L. 115–391, title V, § 502(b)(1), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5228.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797s of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2018—Par. (1). Pub. L. 115–391 inserted “nonprofit organizations,” before “and Indian” in introductory provisions.

2016—Par. (2). Pub. L. 114–198 inserted before period at end “or pregnant women”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Construction of 2008 Amendment

For construction of amendments by Pub. L. 110–199 and requirements for grants made under such amendments, see section 60504 of this title.