As used in the Restricted Housing Act:A. 'correctional facility' means a jail, prison or other detention facility that is used for the confinement of adult or juvenile persons, whether operated by the state or a political subdivision of the state or a private contractor on behalf of the state or a political subdivision of the state;B. 'inmate' means an adult or juvenile person who is under sentence to or confined in a correctional facility;C. 'restricted housing', whether instituted pursuant to disciplinary, administrative, inmate classification or other action, means confinement of an inmate locked in a cell or similar living quarters in a correctional facility for twenty-two or more hours each day without daily, meaningful and sustained human interaction; andD. 'serious mental disability' means:(1) a serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, psychosis, major depression and bipolar disorder; or(2) having a significant functional impairment along with a brain injury, organic brain syndrome or intellectual disability.History: Laws 2019, ch. 194, § 2. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 194, § 8 made Laws 2019, ch. 194 effective July 1, 2019.
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