---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10592"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10592"
heading: "Use of grant funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10592"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXIX — Grants for Family-Based Substance Abuse Treatment"
---

# §10592. Use of grant funds


Grants made to an entity under [section 10591 of this title](/usc/34/10591.md) for a program described in such section may be used for—

- (1) the development, implementation, and expansion of [prison-based family treatment programs](/usc/34/10596.md?p=3) in correctional facilities for incarcerated parents with minor children (except for any such parent who there is reasonable evidence to believe engaged in [domestic violence](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-12) or child abuse);
- (2) the development, implementation, and expansion of residential substance abuse [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15);
- (3) coordination between appropriate correctional facility representatives and the appropriate governmental agencies;
- (4) payments to public and nonprofit private entities to provide substance abuse [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) to [nonviolent parent drug offenders](/usc/34/10596.md?p=1) participating in that program; and
- (5) salaries, personnel costs, facility costs, and other costs directly related to the operation of that program.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2922, as added Pub. L. 110–199, title I, § 113, Apr. 9, 2008, 122 Stat. 675.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797s–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### 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.