Indiana Administrative Code
Title 210 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION
Article 8 - JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITIES
Rule 4 - Safety
Section 4-11 - Juvenile housing in facilities constructed prior to 2022

Universal Citation: 210 IN Admin Code 4-11

Current through September 18, 2024

Authority: IC 11-8-2-5; IC 31-31-8-2

Affected: IC 31-31-8

Sec. 11.

(a) Written policy, procedure, and practice provide that detention facilities constructed prior to 2022, including multiple occupancy sleeping rooms with open-bay dormitories, have the following facilities and conditions:

(1) Some degree of privacy with at least twenty-five (25) square feet of unencumbered space per occupant for multiple occupancy rooms and thirty-five (35) square feet of unencumbered space per occupant for single occupancy rooms.

(2) When confinement exceeds ten (10) hours per day, there are at least eighty (80) square feet per occupant.

(3) A bed for each juvenile.

(4) Adequate storage space for clothing and personal belongings for each juvenile.

(5) Access to toilets and a washbasin with hot and cold running water twenty-four (24) hours per day for use without staff assistance.

(6) Natural light.

(7) Temperatures appropriate to the summer and winter comfort zones.

(8) A desk and a chair or stool available for each juvenile.

(b) Hot and cold running water is thermostatically controlled with temperatures ranging from one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit to one hundred twenty (120) degrees Fahrenheit.

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