Current through 2024 Legislative Session
Section 12-44.1-06 - Grades of correctional facilities1. The department of corrections and rehabilitation shall, following inspection pursuant to section 12-44.1-24, grade correctional facilities as to length of allowable inmate confinement based upon construction, size, and usage, as follows: a. "Grade one" means a correctional facility for confining inmates not more than one year.b. "Grade two" means a correctional facility for confining inmates not more than ninety days.c. "Grade three" means a correctional facility for confining inmates not more than ninety-six hours.d. "Grade four" means an adult lockup or court holding facility in which individuals may not be detained overnight.2. The length of confinement of a prisoner may be temporarily increased on a case-by-case basis in grade one and grade two correctional facilities upon the request of the administrator and the approval of the department of corrections and rehabilitation.Amended by S.L. 2013, ch. 97 (HB 1392),§ 3, eff. 8/1/2013.