Authorizes a new funding program within the Department of Justice, to be administered through the Office of Justice Programs, for state and local prosecutors to develop and implement drug treatment options for eligible nonviolent offenders. The program requires intensive residential drug treatment. Treatment providers are required to report regularly on the offender's treatment progress. Providers also must immediately report instances where a participant attempts to abscond from the program. A failure to complete the program successfully results in service of the sentence of imprisonment for the underlying crime.
Prosecutors have discretion to select participants.
Each program is required to maintain an enforcement unit of sworn officers to monitor and apprehend offenders who violate program requirements and attempt to abscond. Grant awards are to be made, to the extent practicable, to each state and to rural, suburban and urban jurisdictions. Each recipient is to report evaluation data and results regularly to the Department of Justice.