§60531 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

§60531 Community-based mentoring and transitional service grants to nonprofit organizations

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 B— - Mentoring › § 60531

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must give grants to nonprofit groups and Indian Tribes to help offenders return to their communities. Grants can pay for mentoring during jail, the move back to the community, and after release. They can also fund education and job programs (including the Transitional Jobs approach), substance abuse treatment, coordinated supervision and health, housing and mental health services, family help, tools to assess risk, and training about offender and victim issues. Groups must apply when and how the Attorney General requires. Applications that use proven reentry approaches and include an independent evaluation (ideally with random assignment) get priority. Grantees must set performance goals tied to reducing recidivism using the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure under section 60551(b)(6). Each grantee must report by the last day of the next fiscal year on how the money was used and progress made. Congress authorized $15,000,000 for each year 2019 through 2023.

Title 34, §60531

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(a)From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Attorney General shall make grants to nonprofit organizations and Indian Tribes for the purpose of providing transitional services essential to reintegrating offenders into the community.

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

(1)mentoring adult and juvenile offenders during incarceration, through transition back to the community, and post-release;

(2)transitional services to assist in the reintegration of offenders into the community, including—

(A)educational, literacy, and vocational, services and the Transitional Jobs strategy;

(B)substance abuse treatment and services;

(C)coordinated supervision and services for offenders, including physical health care and comprehensive housing and mental health care;

(D)family services; and

(E)validated assessment tools to assess the risk factors of returning inmates; and

(3)training regarding offender and victims issues.

(c)(1)To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a nonprofit organization or Indian Tribe shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Attorney General may require.

(2)Priority consideration shall be given to any application under this section that—

(A)includes a plan to implement activities that have been demonstrated effective in facilitating the successful reentry of offenders; and

(B)provides for an independent evaluation that includes, to the maximum extent feasible, random assignment of offenders to program delivery and control groups.

(d)The Attorney General shall require each applicant under this section to identify specific performance outcomes related to the long-term goal of stabilizing communities by reducing recidivism (using a measure that is consistent with the research undertaken by the Bureau of Justice Statistics under section 60551(b)(6) of this title), and reintegrating offenders into the community.

(e)An entity that receives a grant under subsection (a) during a fiscal year shall, not later than the last day of the following fiscal year, submit to the Attorney General a report that describes and assesses the uses of that grant during that fiscal year and that identifies the progress of the grantee toward achieving its strategic performance outcomes.

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

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 17531 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(f)(1)(A), substituted “Community-based mentoring and transitional service grants to nonprofit organizations” for “Mentoring grants to nonprofit organizations” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(f)(1)(B), struck out “mentoring and other” before “transitional services”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(f)(1)(C), added par. (2) and struck out former par. (2) which read as follows: “transitional services to assist in the reintegration of offenders into the community, including mental health care; and”. Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 115–391, § 502(f)(1)(D), substituted “this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.” for “this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 and 2010.” 2016—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 114–255 inserted “, including mental health care” after “community”.