Perf-Based Stds, Adult Corr. Inst. 5th ed March 2020

Glossary

Holding facility/Lockup – a temporary confinement facility, for which the custodial authority is usually less than forty-eight hours, where arrested persons are held pending release, adjudication, or transfer to another facility.

Holidays – all days legally designated as non-workdays by statute or by the chief governing authority of a jurisdiction.

House parent – see Program director.

Improvement – see Quality assurance.

Incident report – a written document reporting a special event such as use of force, use of chemical agents, discharge of firearms, and so forth. The term is often used interchangeably with the term “disciplinary re- port.”

Independent audit – an audit that is completed independent of influence by the agency or organization being audited.

Independent operator – a person or persons who contract with a correctional agency or other governmen- tal agency to operate and manage a correctional program or facility.

Independent outside source – see Authority having jurisdiction.

Independent source – a person, organization or group that acts independently from the correctional unit being evaluated. An independent source may not be a staff member who reports to the chief executive offi- cer of the unit being audited.

Indigent – an individual with no funds or source of income.

Individualized Treatment Plan – see Treatment Plan.

Industries – an activity existing in a correctional system that uses inmate labor to produce goods and/or services for sale. These goods and/or services are sold at prices calculated to recover all or a substantial portion of costs associated with their production and may include a margin of profit. Sale of the products and/or services is not limited to the institution where the industries activity is located.

Infection control program – a program designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infec- tions and communicable disease.

Infirmary – a specific area within an institution, separate from other housing areas, where offenders are admitted for skilled nursing care under the supervision and direction of a health care practitioner/provider.

Information system/Management information system – the concepts, personnel, and supporting tech- nology for the collection, organization, and delivery of information for administrative use. There are two such types of information: (1) standard information, consisting of the data required for operations control such as the daily count, payroll data in a personnel office, probation/parole success rates, referral sources, and caseload levels;

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