Opinion ID: 404985
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Heading Rank: 14

Heading: solitary confinement

Text: 220 Defendants shall not confine any prisoner to more than one fifteen-day term in solitary confinement without holding a hearing conforming to the requirements of due process procedures which are applicable to prison disciplinary proceedings for each term in solitary confinement beyond the initial term. Consecutive disciplinary punishments are permitted only for violations arising from totally separate incidents.
221 Defendants shall scrupulously follow Rules 4.3.4.2.4 and 4.3.4.2.7 of the Rules and Regulations and Grievance Procedures of TDC (1975) requiring physical examinations of all prisoners entering solitary confinement and monitoring of the physical and mental health of prisoners confined to solitary.
222 Prisoners held in solitary confinement will be fed the same daily full rations as the general inmate population during all the time that they are held in solitary.