Title: Bureau of Justice Statistics Drug and Crime Facts: Drug law violations and pretrial release, prosecution, and adjudication
Headings: 
Drug law violations
Pretrial, prosecution, and adjudication
Pretrial release
Prosecution and adjudication
Prosecution of drug law violators
Federal
State
Juveniles
Drug-related activities of prosecutors' offices

Content: Source: BJS, Federal Drug Offenders, 1999 with Trends 1984-99, NCJ 187285, August 2001. In addition to the 1,477 defendants charged with money laundering as the primary charge during 2001, money laundering was a secondary offense in 630 cases. Of these 630 cases, the most serious offense charged was drug-related (90%), followed by property (6%), public-order (4%), and violent offenses (1%). Ninety-two percent of the 623 defendants adjudicated for money laundering as a secondary offense during 2001 were convicted. Of those convicted, 6% of convictions were obtained via trial verdicts. Drug trafficking had the highest rate of conviction (92%). About 90% of defendants convicted of money laundering as a secondary offense received a prison sentence. Rates of imprisonment varied across the types of offenses (drug offenses, 90%; property offenses, 73%;