730 ILCS 215/10 — Illinois Code / Chapter 730 / Act 215 / Section 10
Section 10
Status: in_force

(730 ILCS 215/10) Sec. 10. Covered juvenile confinement. (a) In this Act: "Administrative hold" means the status assigned to a covered juvenile who is temporarily being housed in a particular covered juvenile center and includes, but is not limited to: a covered juvenile awaiting transfer to another juvenile detention center, a covered juvenile permanently assigned to another juvenile detention center being temporarily housed for purposes of attending court, the covered juvenile awaiting release, and the covered juvenile who was transferred to the Department of Corrections by mistake. "Behavioral hold" means the status assigned to a covered juvenile who is confined to the covered juvenile's own room or another area because he or she is engaging in dangerous behavior that poses a serious and immediate threat to his or her own safety, the safety of others, or the security of the juvenile detention center. "Chief administrative officer" means the highest ranking official of a juvenile detention center. "Confinement" means any instance when an individual covered juvenile is held for 15 minutes or more in a room, cell, or other area separated from other covered juveniles. Confinement may occur in locked or unlocked rooms. "Confinement" includes an administrative hold, behavioral hold, or investigative status. "Confinement" does not include medical isolation or quarantine, situations when a covered juvenile requests to go to his or her room, the movement of the covered juvenile between offices and classrooms while attending school, a covered juvenile who receives individual counseling or other therapeutic services, or staff who are in ongoing continuous conversation or processing with the covered juvenile, such as a cool down. "Covered juvenile" means any person under 21 years of age incarcerated in a Department of Juvenile Justice facility or any person under 18 years of age detained in a county facility under the authority of the local circuit court. "Investigative status" means a status assigned to a covered juvenile for whom confinement is necessary for the efficient and effective investigation of a Tier 2 or Tier 3 offense, as defined in the Department of Juvenile Justice's Administrative Directive 04.01.140. "Tier 2" or "Tier 3" offense means a major rules violation that results in immediate disciplinary consequences that are assigned by the staff of a facility of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice reporting the violation. (b) The use of room confinement at a youth facility for discipline, punishment, retaliation, or any reason other than as a temporary response to a juvenile's behavior that poses a serious and immediate risk of physical harm to any individual, including the juvenile, is prohibited. (b-5) A covered juvenile may be placed on an administrative hold and confined when temporarily being housed in a particular juvenile detention center or for administrative or security purposes as personally determined by the chief administrative officer. (b-6) Placement on administrative hold shall be subject to the following time limitations: (1) when the covered juvenile is awaiting transfer to a youth facility or a more secure