FL S2714

Department of Corrections must develop and implement a substance abuse reentry program consisting of a minimum 90-day prison-based treatment component and a community-based aftercare treatment and reentry component for eligible nonviolent offenders.

Eligible offenders are nonviolent felony offenders in need of substance abuse treatment who have not been convicted of capital/life/first-degree felonies, sexual offenses, forcible felonies, or certain other serious crimes listed in statute.

Sentencing judges may impose conditional split sentences where the last year of imprisonment is suspended and the offender serves that year on drug offender probation, provided the offender completes the in-prison treatment program and serves at least 85 percent of the incarceration component.

Cases must be transferred to the drug court in the sentencing county upon release to supervision if a drug court exists and accepts the case in writing; violating probation terms results in revocation, return to prison, and forfeiture of accumulated gain-time.

Department shall establish program eligibility criteria, develop postrelease treatment plans, track recidivism and recommitment data, and submit annual reports beginning October 1, 2013; the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall review the program and report findings before the 2013 legislative session.