Sec. 203. Use of performance incentive funding
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Each district probation office is hereby authorized to establish a Supervision Performance Incentive Fund (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Fund ), to receive all amounts allocated to the judicial district for the purposes of implementing this section. In any fiscal year for which a district probation office receives sums to be expended for the implementation of this section, those sums, including any interest, shall be made available to the chief probation officer of that district probation office, not later than 30 days after the deposit of those moneys into the fund.
Funds received through appropriations for the purposes of this subtitle shall be used by the chief probation officer or his designee to provide supervision and rehabilitative services for Federal supervisees, and shall be spent on implementing or enhancing evidence-based community corrections practices and programs, which may include the following: Implementing and expanding evidence-based risk and needs assessments. Implementing and expanding the use of graduated sanctions pursuant to section 3609.
Implementing and expanding treatment and services associated with problem-solving courts that are proven to reduce recidivism among the targeted population. Expanding the availability of evidence-based rehabilitation programs, including drug and alcohol treatment, mental health treatment, employment programs, services for victims of domestic violence, services for veterans, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Expanding the availability, in terms of hours and geographic locations, of day reporting centers and the reporting hours of existing probation offices to accommodate supervisees’ work, education, and/or child care schedules.
Hiring social workers to assist supervisees in applications for social services and programs on the local, State, and Federal level. Evaluating the effectiveness of rehabilitation and supervision programs and ensuring program fidelity. Except as provided in paragraph (2), the chief probation officer, in consultation with the chief judge of the judicial district, shall devote at least 5 percent of all funding received through the Fund to evaluate the effectiveness of those programs and practices implemented or expanded with the funds provided pursuant to this section.
A chief probation officer may petition the Administrative Office of the United States Courts for waiver of this restriction, and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall have the authority to grant such a petition, if the Chief Probation Officer can demonstrate that the department is already devoting sufficient funds to the evaluation of these programs and practices. The head of each district probation office receiving amounts from the Fund shall provide for a separate accounting of those amounts sufficient to evaluate the effectiveness of each program.