Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/1212

 93 STAT. 1180

PUBLIC LAW 96-157—DEC. 27, 1979 "(8) implementing court reforms; "(9) increasing the use and development of alternatives to the prosecution of selected offenders; "(10) increasing the development and use of alternatives to pretrial detention that assure return to court and a minimization of the risk of danger; "(11) increasing the rate at which prosecutors obtain convictions against habitual, nonstatus offenders; "(12) developing and implementing programs which provide assistance to victims, witnesses, and jurors, including restitution by the offender, programs encouraging victim and witness participation in the criminal justice system, and programs designed to prevent retribution against or intimidation of witnesses by persons charged with or convicted of crimes; "(13) providing competent defense counsel for indigent and eligible low-income persons accused of criminal offenses; "(14) developing projects to identify and meet the needs of drug dependent offenders; "(15) increasing the availability and use of alternatives to maximum-security confinement of convicted offenders who pose no threat to public safety; "(16) reducing the rates of violence among inmates in places of detention and confinement; "(17) improving conditions of detention and confinement in adult and juvenile correctional institutions, as measured by the number of such institutions administering programs meeting accepted standards; "(18) training criminal justice personnel in programs meeting standards recognized by the Administrator; "(19) revision and recodification by States and units of local government of criminal statutes, rules, and procedures and revision of statutes, rules, and regulations governing State and local criminal justice agencies; "(20) coordinating the various components of the criminal justice system to improve the overall operation of the system, establishing criminal justice information systems, and supporting and training of criminal justice personnel; "(21) developing statistical and eveduative systems in States and units of local government which assist the measurement of indicators in each of the areas described in paragraphs (1) through (20); "(22) encoure^ng the development of pilot and demonstration projects for prison industry progreuns at the State level with particular emphasis on involving private sector enterprise either as a direct participant in such programs, or as purchasers of goods produced through such programs, and aimed at making inmates self-sufficient, to the extent practicable, in a realistic working environment; and "(23) any other innovative program which is of proven effectiveness, has a record of proven success, or which offers a high probability of improving the functioning of the criminal justice system. "0))(1) Except with respect to allocations under subsection (c)— "(A) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, the Federal portion of any grant made under this part may be up to 100 per centum of the cost of the program or project specified in the application for such grant; and "(B) for any later fiscal period, that portion of a Federal grant made under this section may be up to 90 per centum of the cost of

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