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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-082 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

IDOC 'Comprehensive Response to COVID-19' page (as archived Sept. 21, 2020), linking Executive Directive 20-20 (Pandemic Response) and the IDOC and Wexford COVID-19 Protocol

Executive Directive 20-20 authorizing the Department's Pandemic Preparedness and Response Plan, 'effective immediately and... applicable to all Department staff, facilities, visitors, offenders, and youth'; joint screening and treatment protocol with Wexford, the contract medical provider; CDC correctional guidance adopted

Indiana Department of Correction (Commissioner Robert E. Carter, Jr.) · Indiana Department of Correction; State level (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Indiana Department of Correction; State level · Indiana
Level
State
Authority
Ind. Code § 11-8-2-5; Executive Directive 20-20
Issued
2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
Effective
March 2020 (Executive Directive 20-20) (read as 2020-03-13)
End
The Plan remained in effect through 2020-21; visitation resumed with conditions in 2021 (read as 2021-03-31)
In force
Mar. 13, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Gathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all Department staff, facilities, visitors, offenders and youth
  • Wexford (contract medical provider) and its staff
Functions reached
  • EMP contract medical provider's staff bound by the joint protocol
  • VS visitors
  • VL volunteers
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

Commissioner Directive for Pandemic Response: This Executive Directive presents and authorizes the Indiana Department of Correction's Pandemic Preparedness and Response Plan. The Plan is effective immediately and is applicable to all Department staff, facilities, visitors, offenders, and youth. IDOC & Wexford COVID-19 Protocol: The Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) and Wexford, the contact medical service provider to the IDOC, have been working closely on screening and treatment protocols for any IDOC or Wexford staff, or any offender housed at an IDOC facility

Enforcement

Executive Directive binding on staff, visitors and the contract medical provider (Ind. Code § 11-8-2-5)

Notes

Names the contract health-care vendor (Wexford) as bound by the Department's protocol; the Executive Directive itself (ED_20-20_Pandemic_Response.pdf) is linked but was not separately retrieved.

Retrieval note

Graded secondary: the page is the authority's own description of Executive Directive 20-20; the directive's text was not read. Visitation suspension date (Mar. 13, 2020) from the Department's later chronology. brief sec. E wants the instrument's issue date); the slug date is the date of the Wayback capture (Sept. 21, 2020) of the IDOC page; the file was not renamed.

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