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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-008 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

CDCR release, 'CDCR Announces Plan to Further Protect Staff and Inmates from the Spread of COVID-19 in State Prisons'

Expedited transition to parole of up to 3,500 inmates; expanded use of Community Correctional Facilities; recital of measures already taken (suspension of intake from county jails, suspension of visitation, suspension of access by volunteers and rehabilitative program providers, suspension of inmate movement, mandatory staff screening)

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Secretary Ralph Diaz) · California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; State level (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; State level · California
Level
State
Authority
Penal Code §§ 5054, 2900(b); EO N-36-20
Issued
2020-03-31 Mar. 31, 2020
Effective
2020-03-31
End
Measures recited remained in force through 2020; visitation suspension continued to April 2021 (read as 2021-03-31)
In force
Mar. 31, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Gathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesOther
Addressees
  • CDCR staff
  • incarcerated population
  • volunteers and rehabilitative program providers
  • county jails
  • Community Correctional Facility contractors
Functions reached
  • VL volunteer and program providers (access suspended)
  • EMP staff screening
  • SC PPE redirected; dental supplies
  • CB Community Correctional Facility contractors (population increased)
  • OP transport and movement
Character
context
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

Those measures include: Mandatory verbal and temperature screenings for staff before they enter any institutions and other CDCR work sites; Suspension of intake from county jails, projected to reduce the population by 3,000 within 30 days; Suspension of visitation...; Suspension of access by volunteers and rehabilitative program providers; Suspension of inmate movement, other than for critical purposes... Modified the delivery of non-emergent health care procedures such as routine dentals cleanings to redirect supplies of PPE. Created a network among all state-managed facilities to redirect PPE as needed.

Enforcement

Departmental directives under Penal Code § 5054; conditions of access to institutions

Notes

Private and public Community Correctional Facility operators received additional population; rehabilitative program contractors lost access; dental care within institutions curtailed to conserve PPE.