Whenever practicable, pretrial detainees should also be offered opportunities to work. (b) Correctional authorities should not discriminate against a prisoner in housing, programs, or other activities or services because the prisoner has a chronic or communicable disease, including HIV or AIDS, unless the best available objective evidence indicates that participation of the prisoner poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others. Modifications are not required if they would pose an undue burden to the facility, cause a fundamental alteration to a program, or pose a direct threat of substantial harm to the health and safety of the prisoner or others. b. administrative control theory. A prisoner who requires care not available in the correctional facility should be transferred to a hospital or other appropriate place for care. (h) When practicable, giving due regard to security, public safety, and budgetary constraints, correctional officials should authorize prisoners to leave a correctional facility for compelling humanitarian reasons such as a visit to a dying parent, spouse, or child, either under escort or alone. (c) Correctional authorities should minimize the extent to which vulnerable prisoners needing protection are subjected to rules and conditions a reasonable person would experience as punitive. (g) Government legal services should be available to prisoners to the same extent they are available to non-prisoners. Such prehearing confinement should not exceed [3 days] unless necessitated by the prisoners request for a continuance or by other demonstrated good cause. (b) When practicable, correctional authorities should prevent prisoners from observing searches and shakedowns of other prisoners cells and property. (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) 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. In February 2010, the ABA House of Delegates approved a set of ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Treatment of Prisoners. (i) A lack of resources should not excuse treatment or conditions that violate prisoners constitutional or statutory rights. (c) A jurisdiction that enters into a contract with a private entity for the operation of a correctional facility should maintain the ability to house its prisoners in other facilities if termination of the contract for noncompliance proves necessary. In no instance should a prisoner administer prescription drugs to another prisoner. Ordinarily, only health care staff should administer prescription drugs, except that health care staff should be permitted to authorize prisoners to hold and administer their own asthma inhalers, and to implement other reasonable keep on person drug policies. Copyright by the American Bar Association. (c) Correctional administrators and officials should adopt a formal procedure for resolving specific prisoner grievances, including any complaint relating to the agencys or facilitys policies, rules, practices, and procedures or the action of any correctional official or staff. (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. a judicial order asking correctional officials to produce the prisoner and to give reasons to justify continued confinement is called a writ of _______________, Inmates who assist other inmates in the preparation of legal documents or give other help in legal matters are referred to as. (iv) fire alarms and other forms of emergency notification that communicate effectively with prisoners with hearing or vision impairments. In addition to the limitations itemized in Standard 23-3.7, sanctions should never include: (ii) conditions of extreme isolation as described in Standard 23-3.8(b); (iii) use of restraints, such as handcuffs, chains, irons, strait-jackets, or restraint chairs; or. Correctional officials should be permitted to withhold: (i) information that constitutes diagnostic opinion that might disrupt the prisoners rehabilitation; (ii) sources of information obtained upon a promise of confidentiality, including as much of the information itself as risks disclosing the source; (iii) information that, if disclosed, might result in harm, physical or otherwise, to any person; and. When practicable and consistent with security, a prisoner should be permitted to observe any search of personal property belonging to that prisoner. (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. Cut-down tools should be readily available to security personnel, who should be trained in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cut-down techniques, and emergency notification procedures. (f) A correctional facility should be appropriately staffed. (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. G. the time a prisoner spends meeting with counsel should not count as personal visiting time. (d) Correctional officials should minimize technical requirements for grievances and should allow prisoners to initiate the grievance process by describing briefly the nature of the complaint and the remedy sought. 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. (e) Upon request by a court, correctional authorities should facilitate a prisoners participationin person or using telecommunications technologyin legal proceedings. (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. (d) The time, place, and manner of media visits should be reasonably regulated to preserve the privacy and dignity of prisoners and the security and order of the facility. (b) A lockdown of more than one day should be imposed only to restore order; to address an imminent threat of violence, disorder, or serious contagion; or to conduct a comprehensive search of the facility. (d) Correctional authorities should not subject prisoners to retaliation or disciplinary action based on their constitutionally protected communication and expression. (g) If practicable, staff should seek intervention and advice from a qualified mental health professional prior to a planned or predictable use of force against a prisoner who has a history of mental illness or who is exhibiting behaviors commonly associated with mental illness. (g) When public safety and the interests of justice would not be compromised, governmental authorities should provide judicial and administrative mechanisms to accomplish the early release of prisoners in exceptional circumstances, such as terminal illness, permanent disability that substantially diminishes the ability of the prisoner to provide self-care within a correctional facility, or exigent family circumstances. (a) A correctional facility should provide prisoners reasonable access to updated legal research resources relevant to prisoners common legal needs, including an appropriate collection of primary legal materials, secondary resources such as treatises and self-help manuals, applicable court rules, and legal forms. 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. (iv) a voter registration card or general instructions on how to register to vote, if eligible to vote upon release. Correctional authorities should be permitted to examine legal materials received or retained by a prisoner for physical contraband. (c) Correctional authorities should prevent co-mingling of restrained and unrestrained prisoners either in a correctional facility or during transport. (b) Correctional authorities should provide all prisoners daily opportunities for significant out-of-cell time and for recreation at appropriate hours that allows them to maintain physical health and, for prisoners not in segregated housing, to socialize with other prisoners. (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. Correctional authorities should be permitted to subject all visitors to nonintrusive types of body searches such as pat-down and metal-detector-aided searches, and to search property visitors bring inside a correctional facility. (b) Within [30 days] of a prisoners placement in long-term segregated housing based on a finding that the prisoner presents a continuing and serious threat to the security of others, correctional authorities should develop an individualized plan for the prisoner. (d) Correctional authorities should not assign a prisoner to involuntary protective custody for a period exceeding [30 days] unless there is a serious and credible threat to the prisoners safety and staff are unable to adequately protect the prisoner either in the general population or by a transfer to another facility. (g) Courts should be permitted to implement rules to protect defendants and courts from vexatious litigation, but governmental authorities should not retaliate against a prisoner who brings an action in court or otherwise exercises a legal right. Prisoners should also have regular access to a variety of broadcast media to enable them to remain informed about public affairs. Correctional authorities should offer prisoners expected to be incarcerated for more than six months additional educational programs designed to meet those prisoners individual needs. Correctional authorities should take steps necessary to protect the prisoner from further sexual assaults, contacts, or exploitation. (a) Correctional authorities should use long-term segregated housing sparingly and should not place or retain prisoners in such housing except for reasons relating to: (i) discipline after a finding that the prisoner has committed a very severe disciplinary infraction, in which safety or security was seriously threatened; (ii) a credible continuing and serious threat to the security of others or to the prisoners own safety; or. (d) Governmental authorities should ensure that no birth certificate states that a child was born in a correctional facility. The contract should state its duration and scope positively and definitely; incorporate professional standards and require the provider to meet these Standards; incorporate terms governing the appropriate treatment of prisoners, conditions of facilities, and provisions for oversight; and provide a continuum of sanctions for noncompliance including immediate termination of the contract on terms with no financial detriment for the government agency. (e) Correctional authorities should provide each convicted prisoner being released to the community with: (i) specific information about when and how to contact any agency having supervisory responsibility for the prisoner in the community; (ii) general information about the collateral sanctions and disqualifications that may apply because of the prisoners conviction, and where to get more details; and. a judicial order asking correctional officials to produce the prisoner and to give reasons to justify continued confinement is called a writ of _______________. Health care personnel should document any injuries sustained. If a publication or piece of correspondence contains material in violation of the facilitys written guidelines, correctional authorities should make reasonable efforts to deny only those segregable portions of the publication or correspondence that present concerns. Unless a dental emergency requires more immediate attention, a dental examination by a dentist or trained personnel directed by a dentist should be conducted within [90 days] of admission if the prisoners confinement may exceed one year, and annually thereafter. A correctional health care system should include an ongoing evaluation process to assess and improve the health care provided to prisoners and to enable health care staff to institute corrective care or other action as needed. Pretrial detainees should be allowed visiting opportunities beyond those afforded convicted prisoners, subject only to reasonable institutional restrictions and physical plant constraints. (iii) the de novo hearing held every [6 months] should decide whether to continue or modify any involuntary treatment, and in reaching that decision should consider, in addition to other relevant evidence, evidence of side effects. The evaluation should also consider the state of the prisoners mental health; address the extent to which the individuals behavior, measured against the plan, justifies the need to maintain, increase, or decrease the level of controls and restrictions in place at the time of the evaluation; and recommend a full classification review as described in subdivision (d) of this Standard when appropriate. 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. (d) When a prisoner dies, correctional officials should promptly notify the jurisdictions medical examiner of the death and its circumstances; the medical examiner should decide whether an autopsy should be conducted. (a) Correctional and governmental authorities should take all practicable actions to reduce violence and the potential for violence in correctional facilities and during transport, including: (i) using a validated objective classification system and instrument as provided in Standard 23-2.2; (ii) preventing crowding as provided in Standard 23-3.1(b); (iii) ensuring adequate and appropriate supervision of prisoners during transport and in all areas of the facility, preferably direct supervision in any congregate areas; (iv) training staff and volunteers appropriately as provided in Standard 23-10.3; (v) preventing introduction of drugs and other contraband, and providing substance abuse treatment as provided in Standard 23-8.2(b); (vi) preventing opportunities for prisoners to exercise coercive authority or control over other prisoners, including through access to another prisoners confidential information; (vii) preventing opportunities for gangs to gain any power; (viii) promptly separating prisoners when one may be in danger from another; (ix) preventing staff from tolerating, condoning, or implicitly or explicitly encouraging fighting, violence, bullying, or extortion; (x) regularly assessing prisoners level of fear of violence and responding accordingly to prisoners concerns; and. Specialized equipment may be required in larger facilities and those serving prisoners with special medical needs. (ii) be permitted only upon individualized reasonable suspicion that the prisoner is carrying contraband, unless the prisoner has recently had an opportunity to obtain contraband, as upon admission to the facility, upon return from outside the facility or a work assignment in which the prisoner has had access to materials that could present a security risk to the facility, after a contact visit, or when the prisoner has otherwise had contact with a member of the general public; provided that a strip search should not be permitted without individualized reasonable suspicion when the prisoner is an arrestee charged with a minor offense not involving drugs or violence and the proposed strip search is upon the prisoners admission to a correctional facility or before the prisoners placement in a housing unit. Correctional staff, health care staff, and the researchers should promptly report all adverse events involving prisoner study subjects to the institutional review boards chair and the prisoners advocate. (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. (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. Each prisoner, including those in segregated housing, should be offered the opportunity for at least one hour per day of exercise, in the open air if the weather permits. (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. (g) Governmental authorities should establish home furlough programs, giving due regard to institutional security and community safety, to enable prisoners to maintain and strengthen family and community ties. (a) Judicial procedures should be available to facilitate timely resolution of disputes involving the legality, duration, or conditions of confinement. (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. Control techniques should be intended to minimize injuries to both prisoners and staff. 2022 American Bar Association, all rights reserved. When medically necessary, correctional authorities should be permitted to place a prisoner with a readily transmissible contagious disease in appropriate medical isolation or to restrict such a prisoner in other ways to prevent contagion of others. the prisoner has the right to a hearing before a felony trial judge. In February 2010, the ABA House of Delegates approved a set of ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Treatment of Prisoners.These Standards supplant the previous ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Legal Status of Prisoners and, in addition, new Standard 23-6.15 supplants Standards 7-10.2 and 7-10.5 through 7-10.9 of the ABA Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards. Copies of the rules and handbook in the languages a facilitys prisoners understand should also be available in areas of the facility readily accessible to prisoners, including libraries. In Wolff vs. McDonnell (1974) the court created four legal procedures to enhance the protection of an inmate who has been accused of a serious prison violation. It includes the status of being actively suicidal; severe cognitive disorders that result in significant functional impairment; and severe personality disorders that result in significant functional impairment and are marked by frequent episodes of psychosis, depression, or self-injurious behavior. (b) When the initial screening pursuant to Standard 23-2.1 or any subsequent observation identifies a risk of suicide, the prisoner should be placed in a safe setting and promptly evaluated by a qualified mental health professional, who should determine the degree of risk, appropriate level of ongoing supervision, and appropriate course of mental health treatment. (c) Each state legislature should establish an authority to promulgate and enforce standards applicable to jails and local detention facilities in the state. Visits with counsel and clergy should not be counted as visiting time, and ordinarily should be unlimited in frequency. If a complaining prisoner and the subject of the complaint are separated during any such investigation, care should be taken to minimize conditions for the complaining prisoner that a reasonable person would experience as punitive. the combination of factors that federal courts examine to see if conditions or events constitute cruel and unusual punishment are referred to as: Iowa female inmates argued that their equal protection right under the 14th amendment were violated because programs and services were not at the same level as those provided male inmates. These Standards supplant the previous ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Legal Status of Prisoners and, in addition, new Standard 23-6.15 supplants Standards 7-10.2 and 7-10.5 through 7-10.9 of the ABA Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards. [Use the navigation bar on the left side to go to a specific Part of Standard. 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. Complaints of dental pain should be referred to a qualified dental professional, and necessary treatment begun promptly. (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. In order to implement appropriate classification, housing, and programming, correctional officials should: (a) implement an objective classification system that determines for each prisoner the proper level of security and control, assesses the prisoners needs, and assists in making appropriate housing, work, cellmate, and program assignments; (b) initially and periodically validate an objective classification instrument to ensure consistent and appropriate custody and other decisions for each correctional facilitys population, including prisoners assignments to multiple occupancy cells or dormitories; and. (e) A correctional agencys grievance procedure should be designed to instill the confidence of prisoners and correctional authorities in the effectiveness of the process, and its success in this regard should be periodically evaluated. (c) Correctional authorities should assign to single occupancy cells prisoners not safely or appropriately housed in multiple occupancy cells, and correctional and governmental authorities should maintain sufficient numbers of such single cells for the needs of a facilitys particular prisoner population. (e) Correctional officials should encourage and accommodate visits by judges and lawmakers and by members of faith-based groups, the business community, institutions of higher learning, and other groups interested in correctional issues. Prescription drugs should be distributed in a timely and confidential manner. 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. (iii) involuntary testing or treatment would accord with applicable law for a non-prisoner. No correctional staff member should impede or unreasonably delay a prisoners access to health care staff or treatment. (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. When any property is confiscated, the prisoner should be given written documentation of this information. (f) Except in an emergency, force should not be used unless authorized by a supervisory officer. (b) Prison officials should provide programs for the education and training of prisoners who can help other prisoners with legal matters. A staff member should report any information relating to corrupt or criminal conduct by other staff directly to the chief executive officer of the facility or to an independent government official with responsibility to investigate correctional misconduct, and should provide any investigator with full and candid information about observed misconduct. (c) A correctional agency should be required to respond in a public document to the findings of the monitoring agency, to develop an action plan to address identified problems, and to periodically document compliance with recommendations or explain noncompliance; however, if security requires, the public document should be permitted to be supplemented by a confidential one. (c) Correctional authorities should be permitted to confine a prisoner in segregated housing pending the hearing required by subdivision (d) of this Standard, if necessary for individual safety or institutional security. 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