Current through January 14, 2025
Rule 31-9-2.5 - Detention Process1. Admissions staff screen youth to identify immediate individual issues, such as intoxication or injury, and collect information about the youth's family, education status, and delinquency history.2. Admissions interviews occur in a private setting.3. Staff ask youth about any disabilities and provide necessary auxiliary aids or services to youth, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.4. The admissions process includes offering youth at least one telephone call, a shower, and documented secure storage of personal belongings. Youth are offered food regardless of their time of arrival.5. At the time of admission or shortly thereafter, youth receive a written and verbal orientation to institutional rights, rules, and procedures by admission staff including: a. identification of key staff and roles; b. rules on contraband and facility search policies;c. a review of behavior expectations, consequences that may result when youth violate the rules of the facility, and due process protections;e. access to emergency and routine health and mental health care;g. opportunities for personal hygiene;h. rules on visiting, correspondence, and telephone use;i. access to education, religious services, programs, and recreational materials;j. policies on use of force, restraints, and isolation;k. the facility's positive behavior incentive system;m. the right to be free from physical, verbal, or sexual assault by other youth or staff;n. how to report problems at the facility such as abuse, feeling unsafe, and theft; ando. nondiscrimination policies.6. Information is provided in a manner the youth can understand, paying particular attention to language and literacy needs of youth. Staff provide the orientation in the primary language used by the youth.7. The facility makes key information about safety and youth rights available and visible to youth through posters, handbooks, or other written formats. Miss. Code Ann. §§ 43-21-901 to 43-21-915 (Rev. 2016) Rule