Definitions

1. Law
2. Arkansas Code
3. Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
4. Correctional Facilities and Programs
5. Treatment of Female Inmates or Detainees
6. Definitions

As used in this chapter:

1. (1) “Correctional or detention facility” means:

   1. (A) A local or state correctional facility or detention facility that has the power to detain or restrain a person under the laws of the state, including a city jail, county jail, or facility operated by the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction; or

   2. (B) A post-incarceration residential reentry facility designed to house a person on parole;

2. (2) “Detainee” includes a person detained under the immigration laws of the United States;

3. (3) “Inmate” means any person incarcerated in a correctional or detention facility for any reason;

4. (4) “Labor” means the period of time before a birth during which contractions are of sufficient frequency, intensity, and duration to bring about effacement and progressive dilation of the cervix;

5. (5) “Post-partum” means, as determined by the physician of the inmate or detainee, the thirty-day period following delivery of a child; and

6. (6)

   1. (A) “Restraints” means a physical restraint or mechanical device used to control the movement of an inmate's or detainee's body or limbs, including without limitation:

      1. (i) Flex cuffs;

      2. (ii) Soft restraints;

      3. (iii) Hard metal handcuffs;

      4. (iv) A black box;

      5. (v) Chubb cuffs;

      6. (vi) Leg irons;

      7. (vii) Belly chains;

      8. (viii) A security tether or chain;

      9. (ix) A convex shield; and

      10. (x) Restraints connecting more than one (1) inmate or detainee.

   2. (B) “Restraints” does not include a door to a room.

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