217.375. Administrative segregation, grounds for--review hearing required--records to be kept--access to medical personnel.
Administrative segregation, grounds for--review hearingrequired--records to be kept--access to medical personnel.
217.375. 1. When an offender is an immediate security risk, or anoffender is violent, struggling and creating sufficient disturbance toindicate he is not in control of himself, or an offender is physicallyviolent, or an offender is in urgent need to be separated from others forhis own safety or that of others, or for the security and good order of thecorrectional facility, the chief administrative officer of the correctionalfacility or his designee may immediately place the offender in anadministrative segregation unit which shall be situated so that thesegregation of such offender from the other offenders of the correctionalfacility is complete. A review hearing shall be held concerning theincident within five working days.
2. A review hearing shall be held for each offender detained inadministrative segregation thirty days after the initial period ofconfinement and every ninety days thereafter. The chief administrativeofficer of the facility shall keep records of the names of all thoseoffenders confined to administrative segregation, the reason for suchconfinement, the length of time confined in administrative segregation andany other information required by his division director.
3. Offenders held in administrative segregation shall have access tomedical personnel.
4. A review hearing pursuant to this section is not a contested casepursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo.
(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 71, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1990 H.B. 974, A.L. 2004 S.B. 921)Effective 7-02-04