(e) If restraints are used for medical or mental health care purposes, the restrained prisoner should, if possible, be placed in a health care area of the correctional facility, and the decision to use, continue, and discontinue restraints should be made by a qualified health care professional, in accordance with applicable licensing regulations. (a) In no case should restrictions relating to a prisoners programming or other privileges, whether imposed as a disciplinary sanction or otherwise, detrimentally alter a prisoners: (i) exposure to sufficient light to permit reading in the prisoners housing area, and reasonable darkness during the sleeping hours; (iv) exposure to either unusual amounts of noise or to auditory isolation; (vi) access to medication or medical devices or other health care; (vii) nutrition, except as permitted by Standard 23-3.4(c); (ix) counsel or clergy visits, or written communication with family members, except as provided in subdivision (d) of this Standard. (b) Prior to long-term involuntary transfer of a prisoner with a serious mental illness to a dedicated mental health facility, the prisoner should be afforded, at a minimum, the following procedural protections: (i) at least [3 days] in advance of the hearing, written, and effective notice of the fact that involuntary transfer is being proposed, the basis for the transfer, and the prisoners rights under this Standard; (ii) decision-making by a judicial or administrative hearing officer independent of the correctional agency, or by an independent committee that does not include any health care professional responsible for treating or referring the prisoner for transfer or any other correctional staff but does include at least one qualified mental health professional; (iii) a hearing at which the prisoner may be heard in person and, absent an individualized determination of good cause, present testimony of available witnesses, including the prisoners treating mental health professional, and documentary and physical evidence; (iv) absent an individualized determination of good cause, opportunity for the prisoner to confront and cross-examine witnesses or, if good cause to limit such confrontation is found, to propound questions to be relayed to the witnesses; (vi) counsel, or some other advocate with appropriate mental health care training; (vii) a written statement setting forth in detail the evidence relied on and the reasons for a decision to transfer; (viii) an opportunity for the prisoner to appeal to a mental health care review panel or to a judicial officer; and. Correctional authorities should provide access to copying services, for which a reasonable fee should be permitted, and should provide prisoners with access to typewriters or word processing equipment. (a) A pregnant prisoner should receive necessary prenatal and postpartum care and treatment, including an adequate diet, clothing, appropriate accommodations relating to bed assignment and housing area temperature, and childbirth and infant care education. Such a prisoner should have the opportunity to earn an equal amount of good conduct time credit for participating in alternative activities. (b) Correctional authorities should use force against a prisoner only: (i) to protect and ensure the safety of staff, prisoners, and others; to prevent serious property damage; or to prevent escape; (ii) if correctional authorities reasonably believe the benefits of force outweigh the risks to prisoners and staff; and. (c) Correctional authorities should take appropriate responsive measures without delay when intake screening identifies a need for immediate comprehensive assessment or for new or continuing medication or other treatment, suicide prevention measures, or housing that takes account of a prisoners special needs. (a) Correctional authorities should allow prisoners to communicate as frequently as practicable in writing with their families, friends, and representatives of outside organizations, including media organizations. (c) Each state legislature should establish an authority to promulgate and enforce standards applicable to jails and local detention facilities in the state. (a) Governmental officials should assure prisoners full access to the judicial process. (e) A prisoner should be informed if correctional authorities deny the prisoner permission to send or receive any publication or piece of correspondence and should be told the basis for the denial and afforded an opportunity to appeal the denial to an impartial correctional administrator. However, prisoners diagnosed with serious mental illness should not be housed in settings that may exacerbate their mental illness or suicide risk, particularly in settings involving sensory deprivation or isolation. While on-site programs are preferred, correctional authorities without resources for on-site classes should offer access to correspondence courses, online educational opportunities, or programs conducted by outside agencies. Correctional officials should annually review and update the handbooks provided to prisoners to ensure that they comport with current legal standards, facility and agency rules, and practice. (c) The handbook required by Standard 23-4.1 should advise prisoners about the potential legal consequences of a failure to use the institutional grievance procedures. If correctional authorities have a reasonable suspicion that a prisoners legal materials contain non-legal material that violates written policy, they should be permitted to read the materials only to the extent necessary to determine whether they are legal in nature. (b) Correctional administrators and officials should implement recruitment and selection processes that will ensure that staff are professionally qualified, psychologically fit to work with prisoners, and certified or licensed as appropriate. Canines should never be used for purposes of intimidation or control of a prisoner or prisoners. (a) Correctional authorities should conduct all searches of prisoner living quarters and belongings so as to minimize damage to or disorganization of prisoner property and unnecessary invasions of privacy. (d) Courts should have the same equitable authority in cases involving challenges to conditions of confinement as in other civil rights cases. Correctional authorities should be permitted to summarize or redact information provided to the prisoner if it was obtained under a promise of confidentiality or if its disclosure could harm the prisoner or others or would not serve the best treatment interests of the prisoner. (a) Correctional administrators should develop agency media access policies and make them readily available to the public in written form. (a) Governmental authorities should enact legislation to implement and fund compliance with these Standards. The black letter Standards and accompanying commentary have been published in ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Treatment of Prisoners, Third Edition 2011, American Bar Association. (d) When practicable, before using either chemical agents or electronic weaponry against a prisoner, staff should determine whether the prisoner has any contraindicating medical conditions, including mental illness and intoxication, and make a contemporaneous record of this determination. (a) Correctional authorities should facilitate prisoners access to counsel. At all times within a correctional facility or during transport, at least one staff member of the same gender as supervised prisoners should share control of the prisoners. Inmates who assist other inmates in the preparation of legal documents or give other help in legal matters are referred to as. Governmental authorities should provide appropriate health care to children in such facilities. Correctional officials should allow a prisoner not receiving home furloughs to have extended visits with the prisoners family in suitable settings, absent an individualized determination that such an extended visit would pose a threat to safety or security. (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. (d) Correctional administrators and officials should seek accreditation of their facilities and certification of staff from national organizations whose standards reflect best practices in corrections or in correctional sub-specialties. (x) perform the above functions in a way that promotes the health and safety of staff. Governmental authorities should make every effort to house all prisoners in need of secure confinement in publicly operated correctional facilities. (a) Correctional administrators should develop and implement policies governing use of chemical agents and electronic weaponry. (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. Correctional authorities should employ strategies and devices to allow correctional staff of the opposite gender to a prisoner to supervise the prisoner without observing the prisoners private bodily areas. Prisoners work assignments, including community service assignments, should teach vocational skills that will assist them in finding employment upon release, should instill a work ethic, and should respect prisoners human dignity. (e) Correctional authorities, including health care staff, should not reveal information about any incident of prisoner sexual abuse to any person, except to other staff or law enforcement personnel who need to know about the incident in order to make treatment, investigation, or other security or management decisions, or to appropriate external oversight officials or agencies. In deciding whether to assign such a prisoner to a facility for male or female prisoners and in making other housing and programming assignments, staff should consider on a case by case basis whether a placement would ensure the prisoners health and safety, and whether the placement would present management or security problems. (c) The mental health of prisoners in long-term segregated housing should be monitored as follows: (i) Daily, correctional staff should maintain a log documenting prisoners behavior. (e) Correctional authorities should minimize the risk of suicide in housing areas and other spaces where prisoners may be unobserved by staff by eliminating, to the extent practicable, physical features that facilitate suicide attempts. the first successful prisoners rights cases of the 1970s involved: In _______, the U.S. supreme court ruled that while the death penalty was constitutional, the way it was used constituted "cruel and unusual" punishment. (a) Correctional administrators and officials should authorize and encourage resolution of prisoners complaints and requests on an informal basis whenever possible. States and the federal government should prohibit by statute and correctional agencies by policy any form of sexual contact between staff and prisoners. (iv) fire alarms and other forms of emergency notification that communicate effectively with prisoners with hearing or vision impairments. Any visual surveillance and supervision of a prisoner who is undergoing an intimate medical procedure should be conducted by correctional officers of the same gender as the prisoner. (p) The term qualified health care professional means physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, qualified mental health professionals, and others who by virtue of their education, credentials, and experience are permitted by law to evaluate and provide health care to patients. Indigent prisoners should be provided a reasonable amount of stationery and free postage or some reasonable alternative that permits them to maintain contact with people and organizations in the community. (v) At least every [90 days], a qualified mental health professional should perform a comprehensive mental health assessment of each prisoner in segregated housing unless a qualified mental health professional deems such assessment unnecessary in light of observations made pursuant to subdivisions (ii)-(iv). (c) Correctional authorities should provide sufficient access to showers at an appropriate temperature to enable each prisoner to shower as frequently as necessary to maintain general hygiene. (a) Governmental authorities should allow prisoners to produce newspapers and other communications media for the dissemination of information, opinions, and other material of interest, and to distribute such media to the prisoner population and to the general public. (b) When restraints are necessary, correctional authorities should use the least restrictive forms of restraints that are appropriate and should use them only as long as the need exists, not for a pre-determined period of time. For biomedical research that poses only a minimal risk to its participants or for behavioral research, prisoner participation should be allowed only if the research offers potential benefits to prisoners either individually or as a class. (iv) Monthly, and more frequently if clinically indicated, a qualified mental health professional should see and treat each prisoner who is receiving mental health treatment. (i) The term jail means a correctional facility holding primarily pretrial detainees and/or prisoners sentenced to a term of one year or less. ], Standard 23-1.1 General principles governing imprisonment, Standard 23-2.3 Classification procedures, Standard 23-2.4 Special classification issues, Standard 23-2.6 Rationales for segregated housing, Standard 23-2.7 Rationales for long-term segregated housing, Standard 23-2.8 Segregated housing and mental health, Standard 23-2.9 Procedures for placement and retention in long-term segregated housing, Standard 23-3.1 Physical plant and environmental conditions, Standard 23-3.2 Conditions for special types of prisoners, Standard 23-3.6 Recreation and out-of-cell time, Standard 23-3.7 Restrictions relating to programming and privileges, Standard 23-3.9 Conditions during lockdown, Standard 23-4.1 Rules of conduct and informational handbook, Standard 23-4.2 Disciplinary hearing procedures, Standard 23-5.1 Personal security and protection from harm, Standard 23-5.2 Prevention and investigation of violence, Standard 23-5.4 Self-harm and suicide prevention, Standard 23-5.5 Protection of vulnerable prisoners, Standard 23-5.8 Use of chemical agents, electronic weaponry, and canines, Standard 23-5.9 Use of restraint mechanisms and techniques, Standard 23-6.1 General principles governing health care, Standard 23-6.2 Response to prisoner health care needs, Standard 23-6.3 Control and distribution of prescription drugs, Standard 23-6.4 Qualified health care staff, Standard 23-6.6 Adequate facilities, equipment, and resources, Standard 23-6.8 Health care records and confidentiality, Standard 23-6.9 Pregnant prisoners and new mothers, Standard 23-6.11 Services for prisoners with mental disabilities, Standard 23-6.12 Prisoners with chronic or communicable diseases, Standard 23-6.13 Prisoners with gender identity disorder, Standard 23-6.14 Voluntary and informed consent to treatment, Standard 23-6.15 Involuntary mental health treatment and transfer, Standard 23-7.2 Prisoners with disabilities and other special needs, Standard 23-7.5 Communication and expression, Standard 23-7.7 Records and confidentiality, Standard 23-7.9 Searches of prisoners bodies, Standard 23-7.10 Cross-gender supervision, Standard 23-7.11 Prisoners as subjects of behavioral or biomedical research, Standard 23-8.8 Fees and financial obligations, Standard 23-8.9 Transition to the community, Standard 23-9.2 Access to the judicial process, Standard 23-9.3 Judicial review of prisoner complaints, Standard 23-9.4 Access to legal and consular services, Standard 23-9.5 Access to legal materials and information, Standard 23-10.2 Personnel policy and practice, Standard 23-10.5 Privately operated correctional facilities, Standard 23-11.2 External regulation and investigation, Standard 23-11.3 External monitoring and inspection, Standard 23-11.4 Legislative oversight and accountability, Standard 23-11.5 Media access to correctional facilities and prisoners, ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Treatment of Prisoners (Approved by ABA House of Delegates, Feb. 2010), Correctional agencies, facilities, staff, and prisoners. (a) Correctional authorities should ensure that: (i) a qualified health care professional is designated the responsible health authority for each facility, to oversee and direct the provision of health care in that facility; (ii) prisoners are provided necessary health care, including preventive, routine, urgent, and emergency care ; (iii) such care is consistent with community health care standards, including standards relating to privacy except as otherwise specified in these Standards; (iv) special health care protocols are used, when appropriate, for female prisoners, prisoners who have physical or mental disabilities, and prisoners who are under the age of eighteen or geriatric; and. (e) A lockdown should last no longer than necessary. (b) A prisoner suffering from a serious or potentially life-threatening illness or injury, or from significant pain, should be referred immediately to a qualified medical professional in accordance with written guidelines. Correctional policies regarding electronic communication by prisoners should consider public safety, institutional security, and prisoners interest in ready communication. (e) For prisoners whose confinement extends more than [30 days], correctional authorities should allow contact visits between prisoners and their visitors, especially minor children, absent an individualized determination that a contact visit between a particular prisoner and a particular visitor poses a danger to a criminal investigation or trial, institutional security, or the safety of any person. (b) Imprisonment should prepare prisoners to live law-abiding lives upon release. (v) be available to the prisoner who is the subject of the records, absent an individualized finding of good cause. C. If a contractor is delegated the authority to classify prisoners, the classification system and instrument should be approved and individual classification decisions reviewed by the contracting agency. (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. To promote occupational training for prisoners, work release programs should be used when appropriate. (a) Correctional authorities should provide each prisoner an adequate amount of nutritious, healthful, and palatable food, including at least one hot meal daily. (b) A prisoner should not be separated from the general population or denied programmatic opportunities based solely on the prisoners offense or sentence, except that separate housing areas should be permissible for prisoners under sentence of death. (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. (a) To the extent practicable, a prisoner should be assigned to a facility located within a reasonable distance of the prisoners family or usual residence in order to promote regular visitation by family members and to enhance the likelihood of successful reintegration. the carrying out of retributive punishments to deter future criminal acts. Procedures should exist for identifying individual prisoners who did not participate in incidents that led to the lockdown and whose access to programs and movement within the facility may be safely restored prior to the termination of lockdown status. (b) Prisoners should be informed of the health care options available to them. 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. Except in highly unusual circumstances in which a prisoner poses an imminent threat of serious bodily harm, staff should not use types of force that carry a high risk of injury, such as punches, kicks, or strikes to the head, neck, face, or groin. (d) Visiting periods should be of adequate length. (d) The monitoring agency should continue to assess and report on previously identified problems and the progress made in resolving them until the problems are resolved. the prisoner has the right to a hearing before a felony trial judge. Correctional authorities should memorialize and facilitate review of uses of force. (c) Prisoners should not be required to demonstrate a physical injury in order to recover for mental or emotional injuries caused by cruel and unusual punishment or other illegal conduct. Correctional authorities carrying firearms should not be assigned to positions that are accessible to prisoners or in which they come into direct contact with prisoners, except during transport or supervision of prisoners outside the secure perimeter, or in emergency situations. (h) Correctional agencies should work together to develop uniform national definitions and methods of defining, collecting, and reporting accurate and complete data. (b) Correctional authorities should implement policies and practices to prevent any such discrimination, harassment, or bullying of prisoners by other prisoners. (a) Classification and housing assignments should not segregate or discriminate based on race unless the consideration of race is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest. (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. (d) Correctional administrators and officials should provide training to volunteers about how to avoid and report inappropriate conduct. (c) Correctional authorities should whenever practicable allow each prisoner not in segregated housing to eat in a congregate setting, whether that is a specialized room or a housing area dayroom, absent an individualized decision that a congregate setting is inappropriate for a particular prisoner. (f) Four- or five-point restraints should be used only if a prisoner presents an immediate and extreme risk of serious self-injury or injury to others and only after less restrictive forms of restraint have been determined likely to be ineffective to control the prisoners risky behavior. Except in unusual circumstances, such as a study of a condition that is solely or almost solely found among incarcerated populations, at least half the subjects involved in any behavioral or biomedical research in which prisoner participation is sought should be non-prisoners. Sanctions should be reasonable in light of the offense and the prisoners circumstances, including disciplinary history and any mental illness or other cognitive impairment. To the extent practicable, funding, space, and institutional support should be provided for such efforts, and prisoners should be allowed to establish and operate independently-funded publications. (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) Governmental and correctional authorities should facilitate programs that allow crime victims to speak to groups of prisoners, and, at the request of a crime victim and with the consent of the prisoner, appropriate meetings or mediation between prisoners and their victims. (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. (b) A correctional agency should designate an internal unit, answerable to the head of the agency, to be responsible for investigating allegations of serious staff misconduct, including misconduct against prisoners, and for referring appropriate cases for administrative disciplinary measures or criminal prosecution. This Standards can also be purchased in a book format. (e) Any examination of a transgender prisoner to determine that prisoners genital status should be performed in private by a qualified medical professional, and only if the prisoners genital status is unknown to the correctional agency. Correctional authorities should provide female prisoners job opportunities reasonably similar in nature and scope to those provided male prisoners. Correctional authorities should generally accommodate professionally accredited journalists who request permission to visit a facility or a prisoner, and should provide a process for expeditious appeal if a request is denied. (c) To effectuate rehabilitative goals, correctional staff members should have rehabilitative responsibilities in addition to custodial functions. a judicial order asking correctional officials to produce the prisoner and to give reasons to justify continued confinement is called a writ of _______________. (d) Correctional staff should be provided with safe and healthful working conditions. When the use of a specific aid believed reasonably necessary by a qualified medical professional is deemed inappropriate for security or safety reasons, correctional authorities should consider alternatives to meet the health needs of the prisoner. (b) Correctional officials should implement visitation policies that assist prisoners in maintaining and developing healthy family relationships by: (i) providing sufficient and appropriate space and facilities for visiting; (ii) establishing reasonable visiting hours that are convenient and suitable for visitors, including time on weekends, evenings, and holidays; and. (f) When staff observe a prisoner who appears to have attempted or committed suicide, they should administer appropriate first-aid measures immediately until medical personnel arrive and assess the situation. (b) No prisoner under the age of eighteen should be housed in an adult correctional facility. Such investigation should take place for every use of force incident that results in a death or major traumatic injury to a prisoner or to staff. (b) Correctional authorities should permit prisoners to pursue lawful religious practices consistent with their orderly confinement and the security of the facility. (c) Correctional authorities should treat all visitors respectfully and should accommodate their visits to the extent practicable, especially when they have traveled a significant distance. Correctional authorities should be permitted to assign prisoners to community service; to jobs in prison industry programs; or to jobs useful for the operation of the facility, including cleaning, food service, maintenance, and agricultural programs. No prisoner should be subjected to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or conditions. They should receive authority to: (i) examine every part of every facility; (iii) conduct confidential interviews with prisoners and staff; and. Prisoners whose health or institutional adjustment would otherwise be adversely affected should be provided with medical prosthetic devices or other impairment-related aids, such as eyeglasses, hearing aids, or wheelchairs, except when there has been an individualized finding that such an aid would be inconsistent with security or safety. Medical and mental health screening should: (i) use a properly validated screening protocol, including, if appropriate, special protocols for female prisoners, prisoners who have mental disabilities, and prisoners who are under the age of eighteen or geriatric; (ii) be performed either by a qualified health care professional or by specially trained correctional staff; and. The prisoners own views with respect to his or her own safety should be given serious consideration. Prisoners should continue to have unrestricted access to toilets, washbasins, and drinking water. 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