Ready set Confinement
is a criminal enterprise or an organization of a continuing nature that engages repeatedly in acts of crime individually or collectively, and poses a safety or security threat within, as well as outside of, a correctional facility.
security threat group (STG)
is not a specific disease but a term used to describe an organic, progressive mental disorder characterized by a loss of memory, an impairment of judgment and abstract thinking, and changes in personality.
Dementia
a type of dementia, is a progressive brain disorder that causes the gradual deterioration of cognitive function and can negatively impact a person’s personality, behavior, and memory as well as their ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate, and carry out daily activities.
Alzheimer’s disease
Most _____ inmates are incarcerated for non-violent offenses including drug-related charges, solicitation, property crimes, and economic crimes such as forgery and fraud.
female
Almost every ____ person will experience normal physical and physiological changes that can develop into certain medical conditions.
Elderly
• hearing aid batteries
• compression socks
• incontinence products and catheters
• prostheses (artificial arm or leg)
• bio bags (for disposal of biomedical waste)
elderly inmates have items in their locker
PREA compliant practices for searching transgender or intersex inmates include searches that are conducted by the following:
• medical staff only
• female staff only
• based on inmate preference
is a form of cryptic communication that uses written symbols and letters, and the code is broken by matching the letter with the symbol.
STG code
_____ ____ activity can help you statutorily identify an inmate as a potential STG member and can increase their criminal penalties or change their classification and housing status. Photograph clothing, tattoos, and any other observable identifiers.
Documenting STG
is a marking on a wall, a fence, or the ground that identifies STG territory.
tagging
is the temporary removal of an inmate from the general population to provide for safety and security until a more permanent inmate management process is in place.
Administrative confinement
Inmates who are in administrative confinement due to disciplinary charges are entitled to ___ ____ and go before a disciplinary board.
due process
also referred to as protective custody, is a special management status that is designed to protect an inmate from other inmates.
Protective management
is when an inmate is found guilty of committing one or more violations and is confined to an individual cell for a specified period of time that is based upon authorized penalties.
Disciplinary confinement
Examples of?
• The inmate is received from another facility, and classification staff is not available to review their file and classify them into the general population.
• There are pending disciplinary charges for the inmate.
• There are pending outside charges for the inmate which could change classification status.
• The inmate is waiting on approval for protective management.
• An investigation, evaluation for change of status, or transfer is pending. The presence of the inmate in the general population might interfere with that investigation or present a danger to the inmate, other inmates, or to the security and order of the facility.
An inmate can be placed in administrative confinement
Inmates in disciplinary confinement must have access to the following:
• essential health items (including prescribed medications)
• legal resources
• legal mail or grievance forms (whether sending or receiving them)
• religious materials
• meals that meet nutritional standards
Specific support staff is assigned to routinely evaluate inmates in confinement; however, you should vary the time between intervals of monitoring these inmates, not to exceed ___-- or _____-minute rounds.
15, 30
Inmates on death row may be transferred to county facilities when their cases are on appeal. When housed at county facilities, they are treated as inmates in ____ _____ and segregated from the general population.
protective custody
____ ____ will often have the largest amount of commissary items without receipts, which they will pass along to other inmates.
STG leaders
Examples of what:
• wearing hats cocked or tilted to the left or right
• rolling up one pant leg
• untying one shoe
• wearing specific color combinations
• wearing a specific accessory brand
STG symbols
Most correctional facilities have an ____ ____ who can provide information on the active STGs at a particular facility
STG coordinator
If the abuse occurred within a time period that still allows for the collection of physical evidence, generally ____ hours, request that the alleged victim not take any actions that could destroy physical evidence such as washing, showering, brushing teeth, changing clothes, urinating, defecating, smoking, drinking, or eating.
120
Examples of?
• juveniles and youthful offenders
• elderly inmates • LGBTQ+ inmates
• transgender and intersex inmates
• inmates with limited English proficiency (LEP)
• inmates with disabilities
• first-time or newly incarcerated inmates
• inmates that are small in stature
vulnerable populations of sexual abuse
Additionally, youthful inmates cannot be housed where they can ____ or ____ adult inmates (inmates 18 and older).
see, hear
Accept all inmate reports of sexual abuse or harassment made ___, in ____, ___, and from ____ ___.
verbally, writing, anonymously, third parties