Assistance program
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners
$210.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.593
- What it does
- The goal of the RSAT for State Prisoners Program is to assist state, local, and tribal efforts to increase access to evidence-based prevention and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment and reduce overdose deaths. The objectives are to: • Enhance the capabilities of state, local, or tribal governments to initiate or continue evidence-based SUD or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorder treatment programs in the nation’s prisons and jails. • Increase the number of prisons and jails offering Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) to incarcerated individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). • Prepare individuals for reintegration into communities, including supporting continuity of treatment for OUD treatment and recovery supports prior to release. • Assist individuals and communities through the reentry process by delivering community-based treatment, recovery, and other broad-based aftercare services to support successful reentry and continuity of care. Performance Measure 1: Number of participants in RSAT; and, Performance Measure 2: Percent jail based/residential successful completions.
- Who benefits
- State and local correctional agencies will implement programs to provide treatment to incarcerated offenders.
- Who applies
- States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, America Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to apply. Only states, as defined by this program (34 U.S.C. § 10421), are eligible to apply and must designate a single State Administering Agency (SAA) that has authority to apply on their behalf. States often rely on a single entity within the state (e.g., SAA, Department of Corrections, Department of Public Safety, Governor’s Office) to oversee the RSAT for State Prisoners Program and its subgrantees. . The State office may award subgrants to state agencies and units of local government (including federally recognized Indian tribal governments that perform law enforcement functions, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). Applicant States must agree to implement or continue to require urinalysis and/or other proven reliable forms of drug and alcohol testing of individuals assigned to residential substance abuse treatment programs in correctional facilities.
- Authorized by
- 42 U.S.C. 3796ff
- Program site
- https://bja.ojp.gov/program/rsat/overview ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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