Amendment #959 to H4200

Essex County Sheriff Pretrial Detoxification Unit

Mrs. Campbell of Methuen moves to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 8910-0619 the following item:

"xxxx-xxxx For the operations of a pretrial detoxification unit within the Middleton House of Correction at the Essex County Sheriff’s Department.

The detoxification unit provides substance abuse intervention, clinical treatment, and recovery support services to pretrial offenders. A judge may order pretrial offenders who are substance-abuse impaired to be held in detoxification unit to receive treatment and to stabilize the individual. After the initial court order to detoxification the individual will be returned to court for further determination of pretrial status and if possible adjudication.

The program will track individual offenders from the point of court order to detoxification unit through the final disposition of the case. The report shall include, but not be limited to: (a) the number of pretrial offenders ordered to the detoxification unit; (b) the charges each offender faced; (c) the treatment received; (d) the court determination of pretrial status after initial court ordered detoxification; (e) final disposition of the mater(s) before the court; (f) the amount of time each individual was incarcerated pretrial. This report shall be prepared and filed with house and senate committees on ways and means an annual report no later than December 15, 2017.

………………..   $2,000,000."

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #959 to H4200

Essex County Sheriff Pretrial Detoxification Unit