Prisoners should not be required to work more than 40 hours each week, and should be afforded at least one rest day each week and sufficient time apart from work for education and other activities. (r) The term segregated housing means housing of a prisoner in conditions characterized by substantial isolation from other prisoners, whether pursuant to disciplinary, administrative, or classification action. B. in regard to an inmates 1st amendment, _____________ requires that a regulation provide a reasonable method of advancing a legitimate institutional goal. (a) Unless a court orders otherwise in a situation in which a prisoner possesses substantial assets, correctional authorities should not charge prisoners fees for any non-commissary services provided them during the period of imprisonment, including their food or housing or incarceration itself, except that correctional authorities should be permitted to assess prisoners employed at or above minimum wage a reasonable portion of their wages in applicable fees. (d) If a correctional staff member discovers a breach of security; a threat to prisoner, staff, or public safety; or some other actual or threatened harm to a prisoner, staff, or the public, the correctional staff member should report that discovery promptly to a supervisor. (b) Correctional authorities should screen each prisoner as soon as possible upon the prisoners admission to a correctional facility to identify issues requiring immediate assessment or attention, such as illness, communicable diseases, mental health problems, drug or alcohol intoxication or withdrawal, ongoing medical treatment, risk of suicide, or special education eligibility. (f) Correctional authorities should make reasonable attempts to communicate effectively with prisoners who do not read, speak, or understand English. If a contractor is delegated the authority to use force, the scope of such a delegation should be specified in detail, and should not exceed the authority granted by agency policy to correctional authorities in similar facilities with similar prisoner populations. (b) Correctional authorities should exercise reasonable care with respect to property prisoners lawfully possess or have a right to reclaim. (a) Correctional authorities should protect prisoners from physical injury, corporal punishment, sexual assault, extortion, harassment, and personal abuse, among other harms. (b) Correctional authorities should provide prisoners with hearing or speech impairments ready access to telecommunications devices for the deaf or comparable equipment and to telephones with volume control, and should facilitate prisoners telephonic communication with persons in the community who have such disabilities. (v) be available to the prisoner who is the subject of the records, absent an individualized finding of good cause. Whenever practicable, pretrial detainees should also be offered opportunities to work. (e) A lockdown should last no longer than necessary. (b) Correctional authorities should permit prisoners to pursue lawful religious practices consistent with their orderly confinement and the security of the facility. (d) Visiting periods should be of adequate length. Preparation for re-entry should include assistance in locating housing, identifying and finding job opportunities, developing a resume and learning interviewing skills, debt counseling, and developing or resuming healthy family relationships. Living conditions for a correctional agencys female prisoners should be essentially equal to those of the agencys male prisoners, as should security and programming. (e) Correctional authorities should not retaliate against a prisoner for that prisoners lawful communication with a member of the media. No prisoner should be shackled during a work assignment except after an individualized determination that security requires otherwise. (a) Governmental officials should ensure that each sentenced prisoner confined for more than [6 months] spends a reasonable part of the final portion of the term of imprisonment under conditions that afford the prisoner a reasonable opportunity to adjust to and prepare for re-entry into the community. [Use the navigation bar on the left side to go to a specific Part of Standard. (b) No prisoner should be placed in segregated housing for more than [1 day] without a mental health screening, conducted in person by a qualified mental health professional, and a prompt comprehensive mental health assessment if clinically indicated. Correctional authorities, including health care staff, should be alert to identify and document signs of sexual assault and should implement a protocol for providing victims with a thorough forensic medical examination performed by an appropriately trained qualified medical professional. (vi) at least every four hours, a qualified medical professional should conduct a complete in-person evaluation to determine the prisoners need for either continued restraint or transfer to a medical or mental health facility. Regulations relating to the storage of legal material in personal quarters or other areas should be only for purposes of safety or security and should not unreasonably interfere with access to or use of these materials. For a pdf version of the publication, Click Here. (b) Correctional agency policy should prohibit use of electronic or chemical weaponry for the following purposes: (iii) to rouse an unconscious, impaired, or intoxicated prisoner; (iv) against any prisoner using passive resistance when there is no immediate threat of bodily harm; or. (b) Correctional administrators should require staff to participate in a comprehensive pre-service training program, a regular program of in-service training, and specialized training when appropriate. (f) Correctional officials should facilitate and promote visiting by providing visitors travel guidance, directions, and information about visiting hours, attire, and other rules. (e) Upon request by a court, correctional authorities should facilitate a prisoners participationin person or using telecommunications technologyin legal proceedings. (l) The term counsel means retained or prospectively retained attorneys, or others sponsored by an attorney such as paralegals, investigators, and law students. Segregated housing should be for the briefest term and under the least restrictive conditions practicable and consistent with the rationale for placement and with the progress achieved by the prisoner. (d) Laws, policies, administrative rules, standards, and reporting requirements applicable to publicly operated correctional facilities of similar security levels in the contracting jurisdiction, including those applicable to staff qualifications and training, freedom of information demands and disclosures, and external oversight, should apply in substance to a privately operated facility either as a matter of statutory law or as incorporated contract terms. (g) The term correctional staff or staff means employees who have direct contact with prisoners, including both security and non-security personnel, and employees of other governmental or private organizations who work within a correctional facility. Prisoners should also have regular access to a variety of broadcast media to enable them to remain informed about public affairs. Suicide observation should be documented, and prisoners under suicide observation should be evaluated by a qualified mental health professional prior to being removed from observation. (i) Correctional agency policies should strive to ensure full staff accountability for all uses of force. Government-funded legal services organizations should be permitted to provide legal services to prisoners without limitation as to the subject matter or the nature of the relief sought. the courts have recognized all of the following specific interests as justifying some restrictions on the constitutional rights of prisoners, except: in _______ the supreme court ruled juries, not judges, must make the crucial factual decisions on whether a convicted murderer should receive the death penalty. (d) A prisoner who files a lawsuit with respect to prison conditions but has not exhausted administrative remedies at the time the lawsuit is filed should be permitted to pursue the claim through the grievance process, with the lawsuit stayed for up to [90 days] pending the administrative processing of the claim, after which a prisoner who filed a grievance during the period of the stay should be allowed to proceed with the lawsuit without any procedural bar. This agency, which should be permitted to be the same entity responsible for investigations conducted pursuant to Standard 23-11.2(b), should anticipate and detect systemic problems affecting prisoners, monitor issues of continuing concern, identify best practices within facilities, and make recommendations for improvement. (e) Correctional officials should provide programming and activities appropriate for specific types of prisoners, including female prisoners, prisoners who face language or communication barriers or have physical or mental disabilities, prisoners who are under the age of eighteen or geriatric, and prisoners who are serving long sentences or are assigned to segregated housing for extended periods of time. (b) Governmental authorities in all branches in a jurisdiction should take necessary steps to avoid crowding that exceeds a correctional facilitys rated capacity or adversely affects the facilitys delivery of core services at an adequate level, maintenance of its physical plant, or protection of prisoners from harm, including the spread of disease. Depending upon individual assessments of risks, needs, and the reasons for placement in the segregated setting, those forms of stimulation should include: (i) in-cell programming, which should be developed for prisoners who are not permitted to leave their cells; (ii) additional out-of-cell time, taking into account the size of the prisoners cell and the length of time the prisoner has been housed in this setting; (iii) opportunities to exercise in the presence of other prisoners, although, if necessary, separated by security barriers; (iv) daily face-to-face interaction with both uniformed and civilian staff; and. jailhouse lawyers. (d) The location and storage of firearms should be strictly regulated. Governmental authorities should provide appropriate health care to children in such facilities. a judicial order asking correctional officials to produce the prisoner and to give reasons to justify continued confinement is called a writ of _______________. The term includes the chief executive officers emergency designee, if, for example, the chief executive officer is away or ill and has turned over command authority for a period of time. (d) Medical treatment and testing, and psychological counseling, should be immediately available to victims of sexual assault or of sexual contact with or sexual exploitation by staff. Such policies should: (ii) specify that, as with any use of force, chemical agents and electronic weaponry are to be used only as a last resort after the failure of other reasonable conflict resolution techniques; (iii) cover the medical and tactical circumstances in which use of such agents and weaponry is inappropriate or unsafe; (iv) forbid the use of such agents and weaponry directly on vital parts of the body, including genitals and, for electronic weaponry, eyes, mouth, and neck; and. The chief executive officer should decide promptly whether the use of such restraints should continue. (b) Monitoring teams should possess expertise in a wide variety of disciplines relevant to correctional agencies. (c) All prisoners placed in segregated housing should be provided with meaningful forms of mental, physical, and social stimulation. (d) Health care personnel or correctional authorities should provide information about a prisoners health condition to that prisoners family or other persons designated by the prisoner if the prisoner consents to such disclosure or, unless the prisoner has previously withheld consent, if the prisoners condition renders the prisoner unable to consent or if the prisoner has died. (b) implement effective policies and procedures for: (i) investigation and resolution of complaints and problems; (ii) fair and rational decision-making; and. Established professional standards should serve as the basis for an agencys operating policies and procedures. Segregation for health care needs should be in a location separate from disciplinary and long-term segregated housing. For a prisoner not serving a sentence for a crime, the purpose of imprisonment should be to assure appearance of the prisoner at trial and to safeguard the public, not to punish. 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