This law authorizes the creation of mental health treatment courts as well as treatment programs that will provide prevention, education, and therapy directed toward ending criminal behavior and preventing a return to criminal behavior. Mental health treatment programs may consist of, but are not limited to, housing assistance, job training, mental health counseling, and psychiatric treatment.

This law establishes a volunteer mentoring program to provide counseling, life skills training, and tutoring to youth who are in juvenile detention. The purpose of the program is to decrease delinquent behavior and increase youth’s potential to become productive members of society. The program will recruit volunteer mentors from state agencies, social service organizations, community groups, and colleges and universities.

This law creates the Prison Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Pilot Program, which will provide substance abuse counseling to all individuals who are eligible to participate. It also requires the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to report on the effectiveness of the program.

This law creates a Risk Reduction Initiative that will award funding to community corrections agencies to enhance risk reduction efforts with the goal of decreasing parole and probation revocation rates by 20%. The law also establishes a 60-day program credit to reduce the prison time served by inmates who complete educational, vocational, and/or treatment programs.

This law provides that individuals who obtain their GED while on parole shall have their parole sentence reduced by 90 days.

This law authorizes the use of the Northern California Women’s Facility as a reentry facility to house individuals who are incarcerated, parole violators, or parolees pending revocation of parole, as specified.

This law requires the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation to conduct site assessments to determine where to construct or renovate correctional housing units pursuant to the projects outlined in existing legislation. The law requires the Corrections Standards Authority to ensure that funds for the construction of new jail beds are coordinated with the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation's efforts to create new reentry facilities.

The law also requires the development and implementation of prison-to-employment programs, expanded substance abuse treatment services, inmate risk and needs assessments, day treatment programs for parolees with mental illnesses, and other educational and vocational services.

Regarding juveniles, this law establishes the Youthful Offender Block Grant Program to enhance the capacity of county departments to provide appropriate rehabilitative and supervision services to juveniles.

Regarding sex offenders, the law requires the Department to include a research component to relapse prevention treatment programs it implements.

This law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish reentry facilities throughout the state that will house up to 10,000 additional people. The law requires the Department to expand educational, vocational, and substance abuse treatment programs for incarcerated individuals and parolees. The law also requires the Department to conduct assessments of all individuals entering state prisons, which shall be used to match individuals to appropriate reentry programs. Finally, the Department must develop a collaborative partnership with local governments, local law enforcement, and social service providers in the communities where reentry program facilities are operated.

This law requires the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation to create a Female Offender Reform Master Plan. The purpose of this law is to help reduce crime and recidivism, improve access to rehabilitative programs, break the intergenerational cycle of incarceration, and dedicate adequate space for programming needs.

This law creates a Teaching Offenders to Live Program (TOLP), which will provide treatment and relapse-prevention services and prepare incarcerated individuals for independent living. The law also requires eligible individuals who violate conditions of their parole to participate in TOLP prior to their revocation hearing. The Department of Corrections may advocate for parole violators who graduate from the program to remain under community supervision rather than be reincarcerated.

This law requires the Utah Substance Abuse and Anti-Violence Coordinating Council to implement a substance abuse screening and assessment program for individuals who enter correctional facilities. The law also requires that anyone convicted of any felony offense after July 1, 2007 participate in the screening and assessment process.

This law contains provisions to improve parole decision-making and increase consideration of early termination of parole and probation.

This law requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to conduct a study on the potential savings to the state in health care services costs if TDCJ were to release certain elderly individuals who are incarcerated into the community on parole.

This law creates the Prison Diversion Progressive Sanctions Program, which aims to lower parole and probation revocation rates by making more resources available to departments with higher-than-average revocation rates and increasing supervision for medium and high-risk individuals.

This law requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to adopt maximum caseload guidelines for parole officers. The law establishes guidelines for reduced caseload ratios based on program type (e.g., special needs, substance abuse treatment, sex offender, etc.).

This law authorizes Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction (TRICOR), which provides employment and life skills training to people in prison, to enter into an interagency agreement with the Department of Children's Services to provide job training for juveniles with incarceration histories.

This law authorizes the Department of Corrections, the Department of Health, and the Department of Human Services to create a program to provide intensive methamphetamine treatment for females in the state correctional system.

Encouraging Private-Sector Businesses to Employ Inmates This law requires the Department of Corrections, in conjunction with the Department of Commerce, to develop and maintain a marketing plan to attract private-sector service businesses for the employment of individuals who are incarcerated through the prison industries program.

This law establishes a Sex Offender Treatment Board and authorizes the Board to regulate sex offender treatment specialists in the state and adopt standards for training and continuing education.

This law revises the state's sex offender classification and notification mechanism to comply with provisions of the federal Adam Walsh Act. The previous law classified individuals convicted of sexual offenses based on the likelihood of repeating crimes, while the new measure assigns them to one of three tiers based solely on the crime committed.