Room confinement definition

Room confinement means the placement of a youth in a locked room with minimal or no contact with persons other than correctional facility staff and attorneys. Room confinement does not include confinement of a youth in a locked single person room for brief periods as may be necessary for required institutional operations.
Room confinement means the involuntary restriction of child in cell, room, or other area identified by the CCF director or designee where egress is blocked and the child is separated from the general population. Room confinement does not include normal sleeping hours or brief periods of transition, such as shift changes. Eliminates the terms isolation or seclusion and uses a single term: room confinement. Medical isolation and self-confinement are not considered room confinement.
Room confinement means restricting a resident to his room.

Examples of Room confinement in a sentence

  • Remote provisioning of services will also be acceptable when appropriate.

  • Room confinement shall not be used before other, less restrictive, options have been attempted and exhausted, unless attempting those options poses a threat to the safety or security of any youth or staff.

  • Room confinement shall not be used to the extent that it compromises the mental and physical health of the youth.

  • Room confinement issues identified in the February 2015 ACA Accreditation Report warrant additional scrutiny and could alter future on-site monitoring strategies.

  • Room confinement during isolation shall not exceed five consecutive days.


More Definitions of Room confinement

Room confinement means a juvenile is separated from the youth population and placed in a room or cell that the juvenile is assigned to for sleeping, other than during nor- mal sleeping hours or interim rest hours. "Room confine- ment" does not include time a youth requests to spend in his or her room or rest periods in between facility programming. Juveniles are in room confinement from the moment they are separated from others until they are permitted to rejoin the population.
Room confinement means the confinement of a child in a room, including but not limited to the child's own room, when locked or when the child is authoritatively told not to leave.
Room confinement means the placement of a minor or ward in a locked sleeping room or cell with minimal or no contact with persons other than correctional facility staff and attorneys. Room confinement does not include confinement of a minor or ward in a single-person roomor cell for brief periods of locked room confinement necessary for required institutional operations.
Room confinement means the involuntary placement of a juvenile alone in a cell, room, or other area for any reason.
Room confinement means a disciplinary
Room confinement means a juvenile is separated from the youth population and placed in a room or cell that the juvenile is assigned to for sleeping and contains their personal items. Juveniles are in room confinement from the moment they are separated from others until they are permitted to rejoin the population.”
Room confinement means any time a juvenile is alone in the room or cell to which they are assigned for sleeping, with the door closed.’”