Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
The Choctaw Nation proposes to expand SUD treatment and related recovery and reentry services to sentenced Native American adults within the Choctaw Nation’s criminal justice system to improve abstinence from substance use, housing stability, employment status, social connectedness, health/behavioral/social consequences, and reduce criminal justice involvement. Choctaw Nation Corrections provided data on 27 incarcerated Native Americans released in 2022. The data represented a 100% increase in the Native American population within the jail setting for the year. Due to the shifting criminal jurisdiction landscape after the 2020 McGirt v. Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling, the Native American population being incarcerated within contracted Choctaw Nation jails is projected to increase 20% per year. From July-December 2022, 158 individuals in CNO Community Protection were referred to treatment, but only 15 percent of those referred completed treatment. This proposal would enhance the ability to serve currently incarcerated Native Americans on the CNO reservation with peer recovery support that focuses on transitional planning and community-based treatment services prior to and post scheduled release from a correctional setting. Peer recovery support is an evidence-based service supported by SAMHSA and some studies have shown that implementing peer recovery support services for individuals after release from prison cut reincarceration rates by half compared to the rate for the general prison population.
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