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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-025 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

ADH, 'COVID-19: Guidance for State Correctional Facilities and Local Detention Facilities' (Mar. 27, 2020)

Guidance for prisons and county jails: visitation prohibited; screening of visitors, staff and volunteers; restriction of transfers between jurisdictions; PPE for staff

Arkansas Department of Health · Arkansas Department of Health (guidance to State correctional facilities and local detention facilities); State level (State)

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Jurisdiction
Arkansas Department of Health (guidance to State correctional facilities and local detention facilities); State level · Arkansas
Level
State
Authority
Ark. Code Ann. § 20-7-109
Issued
2020-03-27 Mar. 27, 2020
Effective
2020-03-27
End
Superseded by ADH guidance of Apr. 15, 2020 ('Reducing Spread of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities') and later editions (read as 2020-04-15)
In force
Mar. 27, 2020 to Apr. 15, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Gathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • State correctional facilities
  • local detention facilities (county jails)
  • staff, volunteers and visitors
Functions reached
  • VS visitors
  • VL volunteers
  • EMP staff and contractor screening and PPE
  • OP transfers
Character
context
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

Currently, visitation to correctional facilities, and most detention facilities, has been prohibited. So that plans are in place when visitation restrictions are relaxed, criteria and protocols for enforcing visitor limitations and how you will communicate those limitations should be made.... Restrict transfers of offenders to and from other jurisdictions and facilities unless necessary for medical evaluation, medical isolation or quarantine, clinical care, extenuating security concerns

Enforcement

Guidance implementing the Governor's public health emergency; visitation prohibitions enforced by the facilities' own authority

Notes

A statewide health-department record that visitation at prisons and 'most detention facilities' in Arkansas was prohibited as of Mar. 27, 2020.

Retrieval note

Guidance document; the prohibition it records was imposed by the facilities (Ex. 023 for the State system). Cite it as context and cite the underlying order, statute or emergency rule it describes as the instrument. (Bulletins whose operative text imposes a mandatory duty on licensees under the regulator's own authority are excluded from this downgrade and listed separately for review.)).

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