(d) In the event of a lockdown of longer than [7 days], a qualified mental health professional should visit the affected housing units at least weekly to observe and talk with prisoners in order to assess their mental health and provide necessary services. (iv) assertions of a defense to any action brought against them. (e) Health care should be based on the clinical judgments of qualified health care professionals, not on non-medical considerations such as cost and convenience. which of the following is NOT one of the 3 steps most corrections systems use when handling the inmate grievance process? (a) Correctional authorities should not seek to impose a disciplinary sanction upon a prisoner for misconduct unless the misconduct is a criminal offense or the prisoner was given prior written and effective notice of the violated rule. Correctional policies regarding electronic communication by prisoners should consider public safety, institutional security, and prisoners interest in ready communication. (f) Except in an emergency, force should not be used unless authorized by a supervisory officer. Smaller facilities should be permitted to provide for prisoners health care needs by transferring them to other facilities or health care providers, but should have equipment that is reasonably necessary in light of its preexisting transfer arrangements. Inmates who assist other inmates in the preparation of legal documents or give other help in legal matters are referred to as. (c) Correctional authorities should allow professionally accredited journalists reasonable use of notebooks, writing implements, video and still cameras, and audio recorders. (b) A prisoner with a criminal charge or removal action pending should be housed in a correctional facility sufficiently near the courthouse where the case will be heard that the preparation of the prisoners defense is not unreasonably impaired. Except if required for security or safety reasons for a particular prisoner, segregation cells should be equipped in compliance with Standard 23-3.3(b). If necessary, housing should be designed for use by prisoners with disabilities; such housing should be in the most integrated setting appropriate for such prisoners. Reasonable steps should be taken during movement to protect restrained prisoners from accidental injury. Upon release, each prisoner who was confined for more than [3 months] should possess or be provided with: (i) photographic identification sufficient to obtain lawful employment; (ii) clothing appropriate for the season; (iii) sufficient money or its equivalent necessary for maintenance during a brief period immediately following release; and. (e) At intervals not to exceed three months, correctional authorities should afford a p risoner placed in protective custody a review to determine whether there is a continuing need for separation from the general population. (v) access to radio or television for programming or mental stimulation, although such access should not substitute for human contact described in subdivisions (i) to (iv). (a) Prisoners health care records should: (i) be compiled, maintained, and retained in accordance with accepted health care practice and standards; (ii) not include criminal or disciplinary records unless a qualified health care professional finds such records relevant to the prisoners health care evaluation or treatment; (iii) be maintained in a confidential and secure manner, separately from non-health-care files; (iv) accompany a prisoner to every facility to which the prisoner is transferred; and. If the assessment indicates the presence of a serious mental illness, or a history of serious mental illness and decompensation in segregated settings, the prisoner should be placed in an environment where appropriate treatment can occur. (f) Any contract by which a private entity operates a correctional facility should include terms that comport with the following restrictions: A. The relationship between a prisoner and a person providing legal assistance under this subdivision should be governed by applicable ethical rules protecting the attorney-client relationship. Consistent with Standard 23-2.5, routine preventive dental care and education about oral health care should be provided to those prisoners whose confinement may exceed one year. (a) To the extent practicable and consistent with prisoner and staff safety, correctional authorities should minimize the periods during the day in which prisoners are required to remain in their cells. (c) If a classification decision has an impact on a prisoners release date or ability to participate in facility programs, correctional authorities should provide the prisoner an opportunity to request reconsideration and at least one level of appeal. (c) When appropriate, health care complaints should be evaluated and treated by specialists. (f) Correctional officials should, to the extent reasonable, make resources and facilities available for religious purposes to all religious groups and prisoners following sincerely held religious beliefs within a correctional facility, and should not show favoritism to any religion. (e) A lockdown should last no longer than necessary. (a) Correctional authorities should facilitate prisoners access to counsel. (ii) ensure that all health care treatment and medications provided to the prisoner during the term of imprisonment will continue uninterrupted, including, if necessary, providing prescription medication or medical equipment for a brief period reasonably necessary to obtain access to health care services in the community; providing initial medically necessary transportation from the correctional facility to a community health care facility for continuing treatment; or otherwise addressing the prisoners serious immediate post-release health care needs. (d) Vehicles used to transport prisoners to and from medical facilities should be adequately equipped with emergency medical equipment and provisions for prisoners with special needs. (a) Correctional authorities should recognize and respect prisoners freedom of religion. (d) At a minimum, prisoners presenting a serious risk of suicide should be housed within sight of staff and observed by staff, face-to-face, at irregular intervals of no more than 15 minutes. (c) To effectuate rehabilitative goals, correctional staff members should have rehabilitative responsibilities in addition to custodial functions. 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. (a) A correctional agency should have clear rules of conduct for staff and guidelines for disciplinary sanctions, including progressive sanctions for repeated misconduct involving prisoners. (b) Correctional authorities should protect all prisoners from any sexual contact with or sexual exploitation by staff, including volunteers and employees of other governmental or private organizations who work in the correctional facility. (b) Adequate safeguards and oversight procedures should be established for behavioral or biomedical research involving prisoners, including: (i) Prior to implementation, all aspects of the research program, including design, planning, and implementation, should be reviewed and approved, disapproved, or modified as necessary by an established institutional review board that complies with applicable law and that includes a medical ethicist and a prisoners advocate. (v) health care that is necessary during the period of imprisonment is provided regardless of a prisoners ability to pay, the size of the correctional facility, or the duration of the prisoners incarceration. (b) Correctional agency policies and procedures should authorize the use of deadly force only by security personnel trained in the use of deadly force, and only in a situation when correctional authorities reasonably believe that deadly force is necessary to prevent imminent death or serious bodily harm or to prevent an escape from a secure correctional facility, subject to the qualification in subdivision (c) of this Standard. Copyright by the American Bar Association. a judicial order asking correctional officials to produce the prisoner and to give reasons to justify continued confinement is called a writ of _______________. States and the federal government should prohibit by statute and correctional agencies by policy any form of sexual contact between staff and prisoners. (e) Correctional authorities should communicate effectively with prisoners who have disabling speech, hearing, or vision impairments by providing, at a minimum: (i) hearing and communication devices, or qualified sign language interpretation by a non-prisoner, or other communication services, as needed, including for disciplinary proceedings or other hearings, processes by which a prisoner may make requests or lodge a complaint, and during provision of programming and health care; (ii) closed captioning on any televisions accessible to prisoners with hearing impairments; (iii) readers, taped texts, Braille or large print materials, or other necessary assistance for effective written communication between correctional authorities and prisoners with vision impairments, andwhen a prisoner with a vision impairment is permitted to review prison records, as in preparation for a disciplinary or other hearing; and. A correctional facility should store all prescription drugs safely and under the control and supervision of the physician in charge of the facilitys health care program. (a) Correctional officials should implement procedures to identify prisoners at risk for suicide and to intervene to prevent suicides. 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. Involuntary testing or treatment should be permitted only if: (i) there is a significant risk of the spread of disease; (ii) no less intrusive alternative is available; and. (a) For all staff, correctional administrators and officials should integrate training relating to the mission and core values of the correctional agency with technical training. (c) Correctional authorities should implement policies and practices to enable a prisoners confidential contact and communication with counsel that incorporate the following provisions: (i) For letters or other documents sent or passed between counsel and a prisoner: A. correctional authorities should not read the letter or document, and should search only for physical contraband; and. Return to the home page of the Criminal Justice Standards, American Bar Association Prisoners should be informed of this procedure pursuant to Standard 23-4.1, including any applicable timeframes or other bases for rejecting a grievance on procedural grounds. (d) The right of access to counsel described in subdivisions (a) and (c) of this Standard should apply in connection with all legal matters, regardless of the type or subject matter of the representation or whether litigation is pending or the representation has commenced. Each prisoner should have or be provided with transportation to the prisoners reasonable destination and with contact information for all relevant community service providers. The use of firearms should always be considered the use of deadly force. (a) Correctional administrators should develop agency media access policies and make them readily available to the public in written form. Correctional authorities should begin to plan for each prisoners eventual release and reintegration into the community from the time of that prisoners admission into the correctional system and facility. (d) Correctional authorities should be permitted to reasonably restrict, but not eliminate, counsel visits, clergy visits, and written communication if a prisoner has engaged in misconduct directly related to such visits or communications. (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. Correctional authorities should allow legislators who sit on correctional oversight committees to speak privately with staff and prisoners. All prisoner living quarters and personal hygiene areas should be designed to facilitate adequate and appropriate supervision of prisoners and to allow prisoners privacy consistent with their security classification. A facility that confines female prisoners should have on duty at all times adequate numbers of female staff to comply with Standard 23-7.10. (a) The physical plant of a correctional facility should: (i) be adequate to protect and promote the health and safety of prisoners and staff; (iii) include appropriate housing, laundry, health care, food service, visitation, recreation, education, and program space; (iv) have appropriate heating and ventilation systems; (v) not deprive prisoners or staff of natural light, of light sufficient to permit reading throughout prisoners housing areas, or of reasonable darkness during the sleeping hours; (vi) be free from tobacco smoke and excessive noise; (vii) allow unrestricted access for prisoners to potable drinking water and to adequate, clean, reasonably private, and functioning toilets and washbasins; and. Pretrial detainees should be allowed visiting opportunities beyond those afforded convicted prisoners, subject only to reasonable institutional restrictions and physical plant constraints. A suicidal prisoners clothing should be removed only if an individualized assessment finds such removal necessary, and the affected prisoner should be provided with suicide resistant garments that are sanitary, adequately modest, and appropriate for the temperature. (d) Correctional authorities should review the classification of a prisoner housed in a prison at least every [12 months], and the classification of a prisoner housed in a jail at least every [90 days]. (a) Initial classification of a prisoner should take place within [48 hours] of the prisoners detention in a jail and within [30 days] of the prisoners confinement in a prison. [Use the navigation bar on the left side to go to a specific Part of Standard. Correctional authorities should offer high school equivalency classes, post-secondary education, apprenticeships, and similar programs designed to facilitate re-entry into the workforce upon release. (v) be available to the prisoner who is the subject of the records, absent an individualized finding of good cause. (a) Correctional authorities should not use restraint mechanisms such as handcuffs, leg irons, straitjackets, restraint chairs, and spit-masks as a form of punishment or retaliation. (b) Correctional officials should implement a protocol for identifying and managing prisoners whose behavior is indicative of mental illness, mental retardation, or other cognitive impairments. (i) The term jail means a correctional facility holding primarily pretrial detainees and/or prisoners sentenced to a term of one year or less. Disabled prisoners access to facilities, programs, services, or activities should be provided in the most integrated setting appropriate. (h) Whether restraints are used for health care or for custodial purposes, during the period that a prisoner is restrained in a four- or five-point position, staff should follow established guidelines for use of the restraint mechanism that take into account the prisoners physical condition, including health problems and body weight, should provide adequate nutrition, hydration, and toileting, and should take the following precautions to ensure the prisoners safety: (i) for the entire period of restraint, the prisoner should be video- and audio-recorded; (ii) immediately, a qualified health care professional should conduct an in-person assessment of the prisoners medical and mental health condition, and should advise whether the prisoner should be transferred to a medical or mental health unit or facility for emergency treatment; (iii) until the initial assessment by a qualified health care professional required by subdivision (ii), staff should continuously observe the prisoner, in person; (iv) after the initial medical assessment, at least every fifteen minutes medically trained staff should conduct visual observations and medical checks of the prisoner, log all checks, and evaluate the continued need for restraint; (v) at least every two hours, qualified health care staff should check the prisoners range of motion and review the medical checks performed under subdivision (iv); and. (c) The term correctional agency means an agency that operates correctional facilities for a jurisdiction or jurisdictions and sets system-wide policies or procedures, along with that agencys decision-makers. (c) A correctional facility should maintain order and should protect prisoners from harm from other prisoners and staff. (e) Governmental authorities should allow a prisoner to engage counsel of the prisoners choice when the prisoner is able to do so. Any prisoner in segregated housing who develops serious mental illness should be placed in an environment where appropriate treatment can occur. If a prisoner refuses care in such a situation, health care staff should take steps to involve other trusted individuals, such as clergy or the prisoners family members, to communicate to the prisoner the importance of the decision. (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) 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. (e) Correctional authorities should not retaliate against a prisoner for that prisoners lawful communication with a member of the media. (c) During any lockdown, correctional authorities should not suspend medical services, food service, and provision of necessities, although necessary restrictions in these services should be permitted. 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