This bill creates a community-based reentry program administered by a community- based organization at each correctional facility operated by the Department of Corrections. The program is a peer-supported program that provides individualized reentry plans to incarcerated individuals starting from 2 years prior to an individual's release, involving multiple meetings to determine the individual's education, job training, substance use disorder treatment, housing and other needs subsequent to release and follow-up meetings after release to support the individual's reentry into the community and to reduce or prevent
42 recidivism. This bill also creates the Peer Reentry Review Board, which oversees, advises,
43 studies data and makes recommendations to the community-based reentry program and
44 reports to the Commissioner of Corrections and the joint standing committee of the
45 Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters.