As of august 2024, texas had over 135,000 inmates housed in 109 secure correctional facilities across the state

The Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded the Texas Office of the Governor $1.668 million on October 1, 2025, under the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners program (CFDA 16.593). The award funds residential and pretrial substance use disorder treatment programs in local jails and correctional facilities across Texas, targeting incarcerated individuals serving sentences for drug-related offenses or charged with drug-related crimes who have substance use disorder or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder.

The Texas Office of the Governor will distribute the award to local government agencies that operate secure correctional or detention facilities. Sub-recipients will deliver mental health and substance use disorder treatment, life skills instruction, education, employment and workforce training support, and recovery support services to support successful community reintegration. The program aims to reduce recidivism and crime by bolstering local government capacity to establish or sustain residential treatment programs within correctional and detention facilities.

The award covers the four-year period from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029, with administrative oversight at the Texas Office of the Governor in Austin. As of August 2024, Texas housed over 135,000 inmates across 109 secure correctional facilities, with 14.7 percent serving sentences for direct drug-related offenses.

At the end of fiscal year 2024, 14.7 percent of the state's incarcerated population at that time was serving a sentence for a direct drug-related offense. Texas intends to address this problem through its FY 2025 rsat program which will target these incarcerated individuals who are presently under supervision or serving a sentence for a drug-related conviction and have a substance use disorder or CO-occurring mental health and substance use disorder. The goal of the FY 2025 texas rsat grant program is to reduce future crime and recidivism by supporting local jail-based residential and pretrial rsat programs that provide incarcerated individuals with mental health and substance use disorder treatment and supportive resources and services for a successful reintegration into their communities. The texas office of the governor's public safety office will make all FY 2025 rsat funding available to local government agencies that operate a secure correctional or detention facility. Public safety office subrecipients will provide mental health and substance use disorder treatment, instruction and support for the enhancement of life skills, education, employment, or workforce training, and other recovery support services. Texas's primary objective is to bolster the capabilities of local governments to establish or sustain residential treatment programs within correctional and detention facilities.