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 12 2 STA T .6 61 PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 1 9 9 — AP R .9 , 200 8(2)requi re tha t s er v i c es fo r p articipa n ts ,w hen necessar y an d appropriate, b e transferred fro m pro g rams funded under this A ct or the amendment made by this Act, respective l y, to S tate and community - based programs not funded under this Act or the amendment made by this Act, respectively, before the e x piration of the grant .TI T LE I —AM E ND MENT SR ELATED T O T H E OMNI BU S C RIME CONTROL AND SA F E STREETS ACT OF 1968 S ubti t le A—I mprov eme n t s toE x istin gP rogr a ms SEC.10 1. R E AUTHO R IZ ATIO N O F A D U L T AND J U V ENILE OFFENDER STATE AND LOCAL REENTR Y DE M ONSTRATION P ROJECTS. (a) A DULTAN D J U VE N I LE OF FENDE RD E MO N S TRATION P RO J E C TS AUT H ORI Z ED. — Section 2 976 (b) of the Omnibus C rime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1 96 8 ( 4 2 U .S.C. 3 797w(b)) is amended by stri k ing paragraphs (1) through (4) and inserting the following

‘(1) providing offenders in prisons, j ails, or juvenile facili- ties with educational, literacy, vocational, and job placement services to facilitate re-entry into the community ‘‘(2) providing substance abuse treatment and services (including providing a full continuum of substance abuse treat- ment services that encompasses outpatient and comprehensive residential services and recovery); ‘‘(3) providing coordinated supervision and comprehensive services for offenders upon release from prison, jail, or a juve- nile facility, including housing and mental and physical health care to facilitate re-entry into the community, and which, to the extent applicable, are provided by community-based entities (including coordinated reentry veteran-specific services for eligible veterans); ‘‘(4) providing programs that— ‘‘(A) encourage offenders to develop safe, healthy, and responsible family relationships and parent-child relation- ships; and ‘‘( B ) involve the entire family unit in comprehensive reentry services (as appropriate to the safety, security, and well-being of the family and child); ‘‘( 5 ) encouraging the involvement of prison, jail, or juvenile facility mentors in the reentry process and enabling those men- tors to remain in contact with offenders while in custody and after reentry into the community; ‘‘(6) providing victim-appropriate services, encouraging the timely and complete payment of restitution and fines by offenders to victims, and providing services such as security and counseling to victims upon release of offenders; and ‘‘(7) protecting communities against dangerous offenders by using validated assessment tools to assess the risk factors of returning inmates and developing or adopting procedures to ensure that dangerous felons are not released from prison prematurely. ’ ’.

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