The physical separation of different classification of inmates as specified in Penal Code Sections 4001 and 4002, and Title 15, Article 4, Section 1053, of the California Code of Regulations, which is used to provide a level of control and security necessary for effective management and the protection of staff and other inmates.
Describes a diverse group of chronic conditions that are due to mental and/or physical impairments.
Punishment status assigned to an inmate as the result of violating facility rules and consists of confinement in a cell or housing unit separate from general population inmates. (Disciplinary isolation is not administered at the station level.)
Any person under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol who is unable to care for his/her safety or the safety of others.
For the purpose of this manual, a facility manager is defined as the unit commander and holds the rank of a captain.
For the purpose of this manual, an individual who has been arrested shall be referred to as an arrestee until their booking process is complete.
Inmate shall be used to describe any person incarcerated in a local detention facility (Sheriff's Station) or Custody Operations facility. Or any person remanded by a court to the custody of the Sheriff of Los Angeles County.
For the purpose of this manual, a jail manager is defined as the watch commander and holds the rank of a lieutenant.
Any incarcerated person awaiting arraignment, hearing, trial or sentencing. It shall also describe inmates sentenced on one charge and awaiting trial on additional charges.
Any incarcerated person who has been sentenced by a court to any jail, detention camp or correctional institution.
Any inmate currently performing a job assignment or on a work detail. The word includes both sentenced and pre-sentenced inmates with work assignments, unless otherwise designated.
The minimum standards for local detention facilities, Title 15 of the California Code of Regulations, which describes the minimum standards of care, custody, and control to be provided to inmates within the County’s jail system.
Any Sheriff's Department employee, sworn and civilian.
A local detention facility used for the detention of inmates, usually pending arraignment, for not more than 96 hours excluding holidays and weekends after booking. Such a facility may also detain persons on court order either for their own safekeeping or sentenced to a city jail as an inmate worker, and may house inmate workers sentenced to the County Jail provided such placement is made on a voluntary basis on the part of the inmate. All station jails are classified as Type I facilities..
A local detention facility used for the detention of persons pending arraignment, during trial and upon a sentence of commitment, (e.g. county jails)..
A local detention facility used only for the detention of convicted and sentenced persons, (e.g. state prisons).
A local detention facility or portion thereof designated for the housing of inmates eligible under Penal Code Section 1208 for work/education furlough and/or other programs involving inmate access into the community.
Continuous but not necessarily uninterrupted observation within a reasonable physical distance of the inmate. While maintaining unobstructed visual observation, custody personnel are permitted to perform other routine tasks if the at-risk inmate(s) remain in view with clear sight lines.
A housing assignment in which known or apparent suicide hazards do not exist or have been removed.