FL H1587

Department of Corrections must develop and implement a reentry program for eligible nonviolent, low-risk inmates who need substance abuse or mental health treatment, consisting of a minimum 90-day prison-based treatment component followed by community-based aftercare during the last year of sentence.

Sentencing courts must include a reentry program order at sentencing; inmates are ineligible if sentenced to 10 or more years, convicted of capital/life/first degree felonies, certain violent crimes, sex offenses, or crimes with enhanced sentences.

Department must notify the sentencing court, state attorney, inmate counsel, and crime victims upon program admission; participation is discretionary for the department and confers no inmate rights.

Inmates completing in-prison treatment transition to drug offender-mental health probation for the final 12 months of sentence, subject to all standard probation conditions and costs; cases may transfer to drug court if available.

Department must track recidivism and recommitment data for program participants and submit annual reports to the Governor and Legislature beginning October 1, 2011; Office of Program Policy Analysis must review and report findings before the 2011 legislative session.