HEA 1006 Summary

• The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute must prepare annual reports evaluating the impact of criminal code reform on local government, the Department of Correction, and the Office of Judicial Administration, in conjunction with the Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council, due before December 1 each year.

• The Department of Correction may award additional grants up to $11 million annually (or the amount of certified operational cost savings, whichever is less) to county jails for mental health and addiction treatment services, and to counties for pretrial release, diversion, community corrections, and recidivism reduction programs.

• Probation departments, pretrial diversion programs, and jail treatment programs are now eligible to apply directly for state grant funding alongside community corrections programs for evidence-based treatment and supervision services.

• The Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council was established with representatives from public defense, prosecution, mental health and addiction, sheriffs, corrections, judicial administration, criminal justice institute, community corrections, and probation officer organizations to review corrections programs and recommend grant awards.

• Mental health and addiction forensic treatment services for individuals in the criminal justice system include addiction counseling, detoxification, medication-assisted treatment for opioid or alcohol dependence, vocational services, housing assistance, and care coordination.