Perf-Based Stds, Transportation of Inmates, 1st Ed_Jan 2025

Glossary

Detainer – a warrant placed against a person in a federal, state, or local correctional facility that notifies the holding authority of the intention of another jurisdiction to take custody of that individual when he or she is released. Detention Warrant – a warrant that authorizes the arrest and temporary detention of a parolee pending pre liminary revocation proceedings. A detention warrant should be distinguished from a warrant for the return of a parolee to prison, although return warrants are sometimes used as detainers. For the purpose of these standards, return warrants used as detainers also are deemed to be detention warrants. Diagnostic Interview – an interview conducted to gather information from an individual to help determine if the individual has a mental illness and if so, the type of mental illness the individual may have. Direct Supervision – a method of inmate management that ensures continuing direct contact between inmates and staff by posting an officer(s) inside each housing unit. Officers in general housing units are not separated from inmates by a physical barrier. Officers provide frequent, nonscheduled observation of and personal interaction with inmates. Direct Threat – significant risk of substantial harm to the health or safety of any person including the applicant or employee with a disability that cannot be eliminated or reduced by reasonable accommodation. Disability – a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual; a record of such an impairment; or being regarded as having such an impairment. Disciplinary Detention – a form of separation from the general population in which inmates commit ting serious violations of conduct regulations are confined by the disciplinary committee or other autho rized group for short periods of time to individual cells separated from the general population. Placement in detention only may occur after a finding of a rule violation at an impartial hearing and when there is not an adequate alternative disposition to regulate the inmate’s behavior. (See Protective custody; Administrative status.) Disciplinary Hearing – a nonjudicial administrative procedure to determine if substantial evidence exists to find an inmate guilty of a rule violation. Dispositional Hearing – a hearing held subsequent to the adjudicatory hearing to determine what order of disposition (for example, probation, training school, or foster home) should be made concerning a juvenile adjudicated as delinquent. Diversion – the official halting or suspension, at any legally prescribed point after a recorded justice system entry, of formal criminal or juvenile justice proceedings against an alleged offender. The suspension of pro ceedings may be in conjunction with a referral of that person to a treatment or care program administered by a nonjudicial agency or a private agency, or there may be no referral. Direct Care Staff – any staff member who routinely has contact with the inmate or juvenile population. Director – see Agency industries administrator.

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