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 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.

Examples of Room confinement in a sentence

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

  • Room confinement did not include a youth assigned to their room during traditional non-waking hours (9:01pm to 7:00am).

  • According to the results obtained from the survey most of the respondents who are inter- net users have some sort of social media presence and they spend significant amount of time on different social media communities such as: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc.

  • Room confinement does not include normal sleeping hours or for brief periods of transitions, such as shift changes.

  • Room confinement is preferred over isolation to address behavior, if one of the two interventions are deemed appropriate.


More Definitions of Room confinement

Room confinement means restricting a resident to his room.
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 room or 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 the placement of a youth 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 youth in a single-person room or cell for brief periods necessary for required institutional operations (such as shift change) and does not apply to normal sleeping hours.
Room confinement means a disciplinary sanction of confining a youth to a
Room confinement means the involuntary placement of an individual resident in the resident's room or other designated room, except during normal sleeping hours, and the imposition of additional restrictions for the purpose of (i) ensuring the safety of the resident, staff, or others within the facility; (ii) ensuring the security of the facility; or (iii) protecting property within the facility. For purposes of this regulation, room confinement shall not include any timeout period or any confinement resulting from a lockdown.