(c) All prisoners placed in segregated housing should be provided with meaningful forms of mental, physical, and social stimulation. Correctional authorities should not stigmatize prisoners who need protection. (c) When federal or state law authorizes a governmental or non-governmental agency or organization to conduct an investigation relating to a correctional facility, correctional officials should allow that agency or organization convenient and complete access to the facility and should cooperate fully in the investigation. 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. 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. Searches of prisoners bodies should follow a written protocol that implements this Standard. (e) Correctional authorities should be permitted to use canines inside the secure perimeter of a correctional facility only for searches and, except in emergencies, only if prisoners have been moved away from the area to be searched. (ii) For meetings between counsel and a prisoner: A. absent an individualized finding that security requires otherwise, counsel should be allowed to have direct contact with a prisoner who is a client, prospective client, or witness, and should not be required to communicate with such a prisoner through a glass or other barrier; B. counsel should be allowed to meet with a prisoner in a setting where their conversation cannot be overheard by staff or other prisoners; C. meetings or conversations between counsel and a prisoner should not be audio recorded by correctional authorities; D. during a meeting with a prisoner, counsel should be allowed to pass previously searched papers to and from the prisoner without intermediate handling of those papers by correctional authorities; E. correctional authorities should be allowed to search a prisoner before and after such a meeting for physical contraband, including by performing a visual search of a prisoners private bodily areas that complies with Standard 23-7.9; F. rules governing counsel visits should be as flexible as practicable in allowing counsel adequate time to meet with a prisoner who is a client, prospective client, or witness, including such a prisoner who is for any reason in a segregated housing area, and should allow meetings to occur at any reasonable time of day or day of the week; and. B. the time a prisoner spends speaking on the telephone with counsel should not count against any applicable maximum telephone time. (f) Consistent with such confidentiality as is required to prevent a significant risk of harm to other persons, a prisoner being evaluated for involuntary placement in protective custody should be permitted reasonable access to materials considered at both the initial and the periodic reviews, and should be allowed to meet with and submit written statements to persons reviewing the prisoners classification. (b) Governmental authorities should authorize and fund an official or officials independent of each correctional agency to investigate the acts of correctional authorities, allegations of mistreatment of prisoners, and complaints about conditions in correctional facilities, including complaints by prisoners, their families, and members of the community, and to refer appropriate cases for administrative disciplinary measures or criminal prosecutions. (e) Upon request by a court, correctional authorities should facilitate a prisoners participationin person or using telecommunications technologyin legal proceedings. (a) Correctional administrators and officials should authorize and encourage resolution of prisoners complaints and requests on an informal basis whenever possible. Any prisoner in segregated housing who develops serious mental illness should be placed in an environment where appropriate treatment can occur. (iv) a voter registration card or general instructions on how to register to vote, if eligible to vote upon release. Correctional authorities should allow prisoners a reasonable choice in the selection of their own hair styles and personal grooming, subject to the need to identify prisoners and to maintain security and appropriate hygienic standards. (c) Dental care should be provided to treat prisoners dental pain, eliminate dental pathology, and preserve and restore prisoners ability to chew. (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. The provisions of this Standard applicable to counsel apply equally to consular officials for prisoners who are not United States citizens. In a prison, the chief executive officer is the person usually termed the warden; in a jail, the chief executive officer might be a sheriff, or might have a title such as superintendent, jailer, or commander. (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. (c) Regardless of any training a prisoner may have had, no prisoner should be allowed to provide health care evaluation or treatment to any other prisoner. (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. Correctional authorities should assess and make appropriate accommodations in housing placement, medical services, work assignments, food services, and treatment, exercise, and rehabilitation programs for such a prisoner. (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. Absent an individualized finding that security would be compromised, such treatment should take place out of cell, in a setting in which security staff cannot overhear the conversation. In no instance should a prisoner administer prescription drugs to another prisoner. (f) Correctional staff should monitor and assess any health or safety concerns related to the refusal of a prisoner in segregated housing to eat or drink, or to participate in programming, recreation, or out-of-cell activity. (c) A correctional facility should maintain order and should protect prisoners from harm from other prisoners and staff. (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. (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. In order to effectuate these principles, correctional authorities should: (i) humane and healthful living conditions; (ii) safety from harm, including protection from punitive or excessive force and protection from abuse by other prisoners and staff; (iv) freedom from staff harassment and invidious discrimination; (v) freedom of religion and substantial freedom of expression; (vi) conditions conducive to maintaining healthy relationships with their families; (vii) opportunities to participate in constructive activity andrehabilitative programs; and, (viii) comprehensive re-entry planning; and. (i) Correctional agency policies should strive to ensure full staff accountability for all uses of force. (a) Correctional authorities should provide prisoners living quarters of adequate size. Correctional authorities should allow legislators who sit on correctional oversight committees to speak privately with staff and prisoners. (k) The term prisoner means any person incarcerated in a correctional facility. (c) Deadly force to prevent an escape should be permitted only when the prisoner is about to leave the secure perimeter of a correctional facility without authorization or, if the prisoner is permitted to be on the grounds outside the secure perimeter, the prisoner is about to leave the facility grounds without authorization. (b) Legislative bodies should exercise vigorous oversight of corrections, including conducting regular hearings and visits. (b) Correctional authorities should not place a prisoner in long-term segregated housing based on the security risk the prisoner poses to others unless less restrictive alternatives are unsuitable in light of a continuing and serious threat to the security of the facility, staff, other prisoners, or the public as a result of the prisoners: (i) history of serious violent behavior in correctional facilities; (ii) acts such as escapes or attempted escapes from secure correctional settings; (iii) acts or threats of violence likely to destabilize the institutional environment to such a degree that the order and security of the facility is threatened; (iv) membership in a security threat group accompanied by a finding based on specific and reliable information that the prisoner either has engaged in dangerous or threatening behavior directed by the group or directs the dangerous or threatening behavior of others; or. 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. (c) Correctional authorities should be permitted to monitor and restrict both outgoing and incoming written communications and materials to the extent necessary for maintenance of institutional order, safety, and security; prevention of criminal offenses; continuing criminal investigations; and protection of victims of crime. (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. Prisoners should be permitted to form or join organizations whose purposes are lawful and consistent with legitimate penological objectives. (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) 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. (f) Except as required by exigent circumstances, a digital or instrumental search of the anal or vaginal cavity of a prisoner should be conducted only pursuant to a court order. (b) When practicable, correctional authorities should prevent prisoners from observing searches and shakedowns of other prisoners cells and property. (c) Correctional authorities should prevent co-mingling of restrained and unrestrained prisoners either in a correctional facility or during transport. 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. (j) The term prison means a correctional facility holding primarily prisoners sentenced to a term of at least one year. Medical Terminology Quiz 9 (Chapter 14&16) Wo, Anderson's Business Law and the Legal Environment, Comprehensive Volume, David Twomey, Marianne Jennings, Stephanie Greene, Elliot Aronson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers, Timothy D. Wilson, Claudia Bienias Gilbertson, Debra Gentene, Mark W Lehman, Arthur Getis, Daniel Montello, Mark Bjelland. 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