§60521 Offender Reentry Substance Abuse and Criminal Justice Collaboration Program

Summary

The Attorney General can give competitive grants to States, local governments, territories, and Indian Tribes to improve drug treatment in prisons, jails, and juvenile centers and to help long-term substance abusers cut alcohol and drug use while they are incarcerated and through parole or court supervision. Grant money can pay to continue or upgrade treatment at facilities, create supervised programs for long-term abusers that include assessments, continuous treatment, and case management, add recovery support services, and offer medication-based drug treatment. Applicants must say who will run the program, confirm the program was planned with the State’s single substance-abuse authority, promise the program is clinically appropriate and comprehensive, explain how evidence-based methods are used, and tell how they will collect and analyze data and use randomized trials when practical. The Attorney General had to send Congress an interim report by September 30, 2009, on best practices for facility-based treatment and coordinated long-term-abuser care, and a final report by September 30, 2010, on the funded programs. The “Single State Authority for Substance Abuse” is the agency the Governor names to run a State’s substance abuse services. Up to $15,000,000 may be made available each year for fiscal years 2019 through 2023, and the Attorney General must distribute grants fairly across regions and between urban and rural areas, including Indian Tribes, to help lower re-offending.