§60521 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

§60521 Offender reentry substance abuse and criminal justice collaboration program

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle VI— - Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters › Chapter CHAPTER 605— - RECIDIVISM PREVENTION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - ENHANCED DRUG TREATMENT AND MENTORING GRANT PROGRAMS › Part Part A— - Drug Treatment › § 60521

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General can award competitive grants to States, local governments, territories, and Indian Tribes to improve drug and alcohol treatment in prisons, jails, and juvenile centers and to cut substance use by long-term substance abusers while they are locked up and during parole or court supervision. Grants can pay to keep or improve in-facility treatment, build supervised programs with assessments, continuous treatment, and case management, offer recovery support services, and add medication-based treatment when part of a program. Applicants must apply as the Attorney General requires and must name partners, confirm the program was planned with the State substance abuse authority, promise clinical and comprehensive care, explain how they use evidence-based methods, and describe how they will collect and analyze data and use randomized trials when practical. The Attorney General had to report best practices to Congress by September 30, 2009, and a report on funded programs by September 30, 2010. Funding of $15,000,000 is authorized for each fiscal year 2019–2023, and grants must be fairly spread across regions and urban/rural areas, including Indian Tribes, to help lower reoffending. Single State Authority for Substance Abuse: the State office the Governor names to run and oversee substance abuse services.

Title 34, §60521

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(a)The Attorney General may make competitive grants to States, units of local government, territories, and Indian Tribes, in accordance with this section, for the purposes of—

(1)improving the provision of drug treatment to offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities; and

(2)reducing the use of alcohol and other drugs by long-term substance abusers during the period in which each such long-term substance abuser is in prison, jail, or a juvenile facility, and through the completion of parole or court supervision of such long-term substance abuser.

(b)A grant made under subsection (a) may be used—

(1)for continuing and improving drug treatment programs provided at a prison, jail, or juvenile facility;

(2)to develop and implement programs for supervised long-term substance abusers that include alcohol and drug abuse assessments, coordinated and continuous delivery of drug treatment, and case management services;

(3)to strengthen rehabilitation efforts for offenders by providing addiction recovery support services; and

(4)to establish pharmacological drug treatment services as part of any drug treatment program offered by a grantee to offenders who are in a prison or jail.

(c)(1)An entity described in subsection (a) desiring a grant under that subsection shall submit to the Attorney General an application in such form and manner and at such time as the Attorney General requires.

(2)An application for a grant under subsection (a) shall—

(A)identify any agency, organization, or researcher that will be involved in administering a drug treatment program carried out with a grant under subsection (a);

(B)certify that such drug treatment program has been developed in consultation with the Single State Authority for Substance Abuse;

(C)certify that such drug treatment program shall—

(i)be clinically-appropriate; and

(ii)provide comprehensive treatment;

(D)describe how evidence-based strategies have been incorporated into such drug treatment program; and

(E)describe how data will be collected and analyzed to determine the effectiveness of such drug treatment program and describe how randomized trials will be used where practicable.

(d)(1)Not later than September 30, 2009, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report that identifies the best practices relating to—

(A)substance abuse treatment in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities; and

(B)the comprehensive and coordinated treatment of long-term substance abusers, including the best practices identified through the activities funded under subsection (b)(3).

(2)Not later than September 30, 2010, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report on the drug treatment programs funded under this section, including on the matters specified in paragraph (1).

(e)The term “Single State Authority for Substance Abuse” means an entity designated by the Governor or chief executive officer of a State as the single State administrative authority responsible for the planning, development, implementation, monitoring, regulation, and evaluation of substance abuse services.

(f)(1)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.

(2)Of the amount made available to carry out this section in any fiscal year, the Attorney General shall ensure that grants awarded under this section are equitably distributed among geographical regions and between urban and rural populations, including Indian Tribes, consistent with the objective of reducing recidivism among criminal offenders.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 17521 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 115–391 amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 and 2010.”