WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) announced a $50,000 grant to the Kansas Sentencing Commission in Topeka.

The funds will be used to continue a drug policy study. The grant will continue the collecting, analyzing, and reporting of statistics on data relating to: the number of offenders receiving alternative sentencing; number of court cases; court case outcomes; demographic information; determinate factors in modalities; and post treatment/sentence recidivism. Information will be provided to the Bureau of Justice Statistics on a semi-annual basis.

The grant was awarded by the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program.

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