[ Editor’s note: This section is effective July 1, 2022.] The general assembly finds that: Placing individuals with serious mental illness in restrictive housing, also known as solitary confinement, within a local jail is inappropriate and causes further harm to the individual; According to the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, prolonged solitary confinement is […]
[ Editor’s note: This section is effective July 1, 2022. ] As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise requires: “Intellectual or developmental disability” means a disability attributable to an intellectual or developmental condition, as defined in the latest edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of the American psychiatric association, or related […]
[ Editor’s note: This section is effective July 1, 2022.] A local jail shall not involuntarily place an individual in restrictive housing, including for disciplinary reasons, if the individual meets any one of the following conditions: The individual is diagnosed with a serious mental illness or is exhibiting grossly abnormal or irrational behaviors or breaks […]
[ Editor’s note: This section is effective July 1, 2022.] A local jail shall use an adequate screening tool to complete a health screening of each individual upon arrival at the facility by health-trained or qualified health-care personnel as part of the admission procedures. If a local jail is unable to perform a health screening […]
