(1) A period in a State correctional institution of not less than seven months. This period shall include:

(2) A period of treatment in a community-based therapeutic community of at least two months.

(3) A period of at least six-months' treatment through an outpatient addiction treatment facility. During the outpatient addiction treatment period of the program, the participant may be housed in a community corrections center or group home or placed in an approved transitional residence. The participant must comply with any conditions established by the department regardless of where the participant resides during the outpatient addiction treatment portion of the program.

(4) A period of supervised reintegration into the community for the balance of the program, during which the participant shall continue to be supervised by the department and comply with any conditions imposed by the department.

(5) Upon certification by the department of the participant's successful completion of the program, the entire term of confinement that rendered the participant eligible to participate in the State drug treatment program shall be deemed to have been served.

(1) Consistent with the minimum time requirements set forth in subsection (b), the department may transfer, at its discretion, a participant between a State correctional institution, an institutional therapeutic community, a community-based therapeutic community, an outpatient addiction treatment program and an approved transitional residence. The department may also transfer a participant back and forth between less restrictive and more restrictive settings based upon the participant's progress or regression in treatment or for medical, disciplinary or other administrative reasons.

(2) This subsection shall be construed to provide the department with the maximum flexibility to administer the State drug treatment program both as a whole and for individual participants.

(1) A participant may be expelled from the State drug treatment program at any time in accordance with guidelines established by the department, including failure to comply with administrative or disciplinary procedures or requirements set forth by the department. An expelled participant shall be housed in a State correctional institution to serve the remainder of the participant's sentence. The expelled participant shall be eligible for parole at the minimum sentence but may not be eligible for short sentence parole under section 6137.1 (relating to short sentence parole).

(1.1) A police officer commissioned under section 1 of the act of May 21, 1943 (P.L. 469, No. 210),¹ entitled “An act providing for commissioning as police officers certain employes of institutions maintained in whole or in part by the Commonwealth; conferring upon them the powers of constables in certain cases; and imposing duties on wardens and keepers of jails, police stations and lock-ups,” shall have the authority to issue a warrant for the return of a participant who is not in compliance with the terms of the drug offender treatment program to the custody of the department.

(2) The department shall promptly notify the court, the participant, the attorney for the Commonwealth and the commission of the expulsion of a participant from the State drug treatment program and the reason for such expulsion.

(3) Deleted by 2019, Dec. 18, P.L. 776, No. 115, § 12, effective in 60 days [Feb. 18, 2020].