§ 11-12-2-1 — Purpose and availability of grants; funding; department reporting requirements

(a) For the purpose of encouraging counties to
develop a coordinated local corrections-criminal justice system and
providing effective alternatives to imprisonment at the state level, the
commissioner shall, out of funds appropriated for such purposes, make
grants:
(1) to counties for the establishment and operation of community
corrections programs and court supervised recidivism reduction
programs; and
(2) to support a probation department, pretrial diversion program,
or jail treatment program.
Appropriations intended for this purpose may not be used by the
department for any other purpose. Money appropriated to the
department of correction for the purpose of making grants under this
chapter and any financial aid payments suspended under section 6 of
this chapter do not revert to the state general fund at the close of any
fiscal year, but remain available to the department of correction for its
use in making grants under this chapter.
(b) The commissioner shall coordinate with the division of mental
health and addiction in issuing community corrections and court
supervised recidivism reduction program grants to programs that
provide alternative sentencing projects for persons with mental illness,
addictive disorders, intellectual disabilities, and developmental
disabilities. Programs for addictive disorders may include:
(1) addiction counseling;
(2) inpatient detoxification; and
(3) medication assisted treatment, including a federal Food and
Drug Administration approved long acting, nonaddictive
medication for the treatment of opioid or alcohol dependence.
(c) Grants awarded under this chapter:
(1) must focus on funding evidence based programs, including
programs that address cognitive behavior, that have as a primary
goal the purpose of reforming offenders; and
(2) may be used for technology based programs, including an
electronic monitoring program.
(d) Before the tenth day of each month, the department shall
compile the following information with respect to the previous month:
(1) The number of persons committed to the department.
(2) The number of persons:
(A) confined in a department facility;
(B) participating in a community corrections program; and
(C) confined in a local jail under contract with or on behalf of
the department.
(3) For each facility operated by the department:
(A) the number of beds in each facility; and
(B) the number of inmates housed in the facility.
(4) The number of persons committed to the department for a
Level 6 felony.
(e) The department shall:
(1) quarterly submit a report to the budget committee; and
(2) monthly submit a report to the justice reinvestment advisory
council (as established in IC 33-38-9.5-2);
of the information compiled by the department under subsection (d).
The report to the budget committee must be submitted in a form
approved by the budget committee, and the report to the advisory
council must be in a form approved by the advisory council.
As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120, SEC.5. Amended by
P.L.151-1983, SEC.1; P.L.85-2004, SEC.42; P.L.105-2010, SEC.2;
P.L.168-2014, SEC.24; P.L.117-2015, SEC.7; P.L.179-2015, SEC.1;
P.L.209-2015, SEC.5; P.L.149-2016, SEC.40; P.L.69-2016, SEC.1;
P.L.65-2018, SEC.2; P.L.9-2024, SEC.324; P.L.126-2024, SEC.3;
P.L.193-2025, SEC.11.