New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
Chapter VI - Special Housing Units
Part 310 - Special Housing Unit Case Management Committee
Section 310.3 - Procedure of the special housing unit case management committee
Current through Register Vol. 45, No. 52, December 27, 2023
(a) The committee shall meet at least once every two weeks. A minimum of four committee members to include staff representation from OMH and department shall be present at each meeting. At least one of the committee members present at each meeting shall be an OMH clinician.
(b) The agenda for each meeting shall include an initial review of the status of any inmate newly assigned to SHU at the facility following a superintendent's hearing in which the inmate's mental state or intellectual capacity was deemed to be at issue, a review of the status of any SHU inmate based upon a recent request to the committee from OMH or department staff, and a review of the status of SHU inmates on the OMH mental health caseload.
(c) During the review of an inmate's status:
(d) After reviewing the inmate's status, the committee may do one or more of the following:
Note: Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to, in any way, limit the ability of department staff to, at any time, refer an inmate to OMH for evaluation and appropriate mental health care and treatment or for OMH to, at any time, evaluate an inmate and provide appropriate mental health care in the absence of such a referral.
(e) The review of a SHU inmate's status by the special housing unit case management committee and any recommendations to the superintendent or OMH unit chief shall be reflected in the inmate's guidance folder.