FL S0880

Department of Corrections must develop and administer a reentry program for eligible, nonviolent, low-risk offenders to be transitioned into the community during the last year of their sentence, consisting of a minimum 90-day in-prison treatment component for substance abuse or mental health issues and community-based aftercare.

Eligible offenders must have a primary offense of third or second-degree felony for controlled substance purchase, never been convicted of forcible felonies or certain serious crimes, not be subject to domestic violence injunctions, require substance abuse or mental health treatment, and be in minimum or community custody status.

Sentencing court must order the reentry program and conditional drug offender probation at sentencing; the department must place eligible offenders into the in-prison treatment component no later than 120 days before the beginning of the last year of their sentence.

Following successful completion of in-prison treatment, offenders transition to drug offender probation in the community for the remainder of their sentence, subject to standard probation terms and department-collected supervision costs; cases may be transferred to drug court if available and willing.

Department shall track recidivism and recommitment data and submit annual reports to the Governor and Legislature beginning October 1, 2014; this program confers no rights to offenders and does not create grounds for legal action.