Washington Administrative Code › Title 137 - Corrections, Department of › Chapter 137-56 - PARTIAL CONFINEMENT › Section 137-56-010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) "Secretary" is the secretary of the
			 department of corrections or their designee.
(2) "Department" is the department of
			 corrections.
(3) "Partial
			 confinement" means confinement for no more than one year in a facility or
			 institution operated or utilized under contract by the state or any other unit
			 of government, or, if home detention, electronic monitoring, or work crew has
			 been ordered by the court or home detention has been ordered by the department
			 as part of the community parenting program or the graduated reentry program for
			 no more than 18 months, in an approved residence, for a substantial portion of
			 each day with the balance of the day spent in the community. Partial
			 confinement includes reentry center, home detention, work crew, electronic
			 monitoring, and a combination of work crew, electronic monitoring, and home
			 detention.
(4) "Home detention" is
			 a subset of electronic monitoring and means a program of partial confinement
			 available to individuals wherein the individual is confined in a private
			 residence 24 hours a day, unless an absence from the residence is approved,
			 authorized, or otherwise permitted in the order by the court or other
			 supervising agency that ordered home detention, and the individual is subject
			 to electronic monitoring.
(5)
			 "Administrative termination" is the nondisciplinary reclassification of an
			 individual from partial confinement to total confinement by the
			 administrator/designee if they determine placement is no longer viable and/or
			 if the circumstances of placement create a risk to the community, participant,
			 child, or family, or the individual self-terminates, is no longer suitable, or
			 fails to maintain placement requirements (e.g., no longer has viable housing
			 options, medical condition, financial hardship, failing to maintain an operable
			 telephone line).
(6) "Supervisor"
			 is a staff member assigned by the administrators to administer and supervise a
			 specific partial confinement program and includes their designee.
(7) "Community corrections officer" or
			 "specialist" is a staff member also known as a "case manager" assigned by the
			 community corrections supervisor/reentry center manager to supervise and
			 counsel a caseload of individuals assigned to a reentry center or partial
			 confinement program.
(8) "Contract
			 staff" is the staff member(s) of an agency under contract to the department of
			 corrections to provide housing and/or monitoring for reentry center
			 individuals.
(9) "Partial
			 confinement individual" is any individual committed to or transferred to the
			 department's custody pursuant to a valid criminal conviction who has been
			 approved by the department for placement in a designated reentry center or
			 partial confinement program.
(10)
			 "Sponsor-escort" is a responsible citizen screened and approved to escort and
			 monitor an individual during official and social activities outside of the
			 reentry center.
(11) "Reentry
			 center" is an establishment approved for housing and monitoring of reentry
			 center individuals during the individual's stay in a reentry center. It also
			 includes individuals who have been screened and approved for placement on
			 partial confinement programs.
(12)
			 "Business" is a nine-hour day, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding weekends and
			 holidays.
(13) "Hearing officer"
			 means an employee of the department authorized to conduct
			 disciplinary/department hearings.
(14) "Hearings program administrator" means
			 the administrator of the hearings unit of the department, or the hearing
			 program administrator's designee.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				    72.01.090,
				  72.09.130, and
				  9.94.070. 05-24-009 and 06-02-038,
				  §
										137-56-010, filed 11/28/05 and
				  12/28/05, effective 5/1/06. 94-07-065, §
										137-56-010, filed 3/14/94,
				  effective 5/1/94. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				    72.65.100. 86-06-012 (Order 86-02), §
										137-56-010, filed 2/21/86;
				  82-08-055 (Order 82-06), §
										137-56-010, filed 4/5/82.
				  Formerly chapter 275-92 WAC.