---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12253"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12253"
heading: "Report"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12253"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part G — Family Unity Demonstration Project"
  - "Subpart 1 — grants to states"
---

# §12253. Report

- (a) **In general—** A [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) that receives a grant under this subpart[^1] shall, not later than 90 days after the 1-year period in which the grant is required to be expended, submit a report to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) regarding the family unity demonstration project for which the grant was expended.
- (b) **Contents—** A report under [subsection (a)](#a) shall—
  - (1) [state](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) the number of prisoners who submitted applications to participate in the project and the number of prisoners who were placed in community correctional facilities;
  - (2) [state](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), with respect to prisoners placed in the project, the number of prisoners who are returned to that jurisdiction and custody and the reasons for such return;
  - (3) describe the nature and scope of educational and training activities provided to prisoners participating in the project;
  - (4) [state](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) the number, and describe the scope of, contracts made with public and nonprofit private [community-based organizations](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-5) to carry out such project; and
  - (5) evaluate the effectiveness of the project in accomplishing the purposes described in [section 12241 of this title](/usc/34/12241.md).

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31913, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1895.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subpart, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this title” and was translated as reading “this chapter”, meaning chapter 1 of subtitle S of title III of Pub. L. 103–322, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13893 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.