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2020 SESSION

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HB 1284 Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement.

Introduced by: Patrick A. Hope | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Directs the Board of Corrections, in consultation with a stakeholder work group, to conduct a review of the standards and requirements governing, and the application and use of, isolated confinement in local correctional facilities.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers, defined in the bill as confinement of a prisoner or juvenile to a cell, alone or with another prisoner or juvenile, for 20 hours or more a day for an adult or for 17 hours or more a day for a juvenile, other than for the purpose of providing medical or mental health treatment. The bill provides for exceptions for when isolated confinement may be permitted in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers. The bill also requires the Board of Corrections to promulgate and establish standards placing limits on the use of isolated confinement in local correctional facilities that are consistent with the standards applicable to state correctional facilities.