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(2) Reassessment. At least once every three months professional staff shall conduct a reassessment of the youth and the case plan to determine progress toward meeting the plan goals.
(a) The facility shall conduct an individual case plan review and revise the plan as needed, consistent with the youth’s needs, case plan goals, and the permanency planning goals of the placing person or agency.
(b) Professional staff shall document the results of all youth reassessments and case plan reviews to include the date of each review and the names of participants.
(3) Treatment programming. The facility shall provide treatment programming as identified in the case plan.
Subchapter IX – Safety and Security
DOC 347.47 Security practices.
(1) Key control.
(a) There shall be at least 3 complete sets of secure area and fire escape keys: one set in use, one set stored in a secure and safe place that is accessible only to staff for use in an emergency, and one set stored in a secure and safe place outside the secure perimeter.
(b) All keys assigned to staff shall be stored in a secure area when not in use and accessible in the event of an emergency.
(c) All keys assigned to staff shall be inventoried and documented at shift change.
(d) Youth are not permitted to handle or utilize keys assigned to staff.
(e) Keys issued to youth shall be inventoried when issued and returned.
(2) Weapons control.
(a) Firearms are not permitted in the facility except in emergency situations.
(b) The facility shall establish protocols for the introduction, availability, inventory, and storage of other security control devices and specify the level of authority required for access and use.
(3) Tool control. Tool control shall include the introduction, use, storage, and inventory of all tools brought into the facility or stored onsite.
(4) Searches.
(a) Youth.
1. Searches shall not be conducted as a form of harassment, punishment, or discipline.
2. Searches of youth, except in exigent circumstances, shall be conducted by a staff member of the same gender as the youth.
3. Body cavity searches shall be conducted by a qualified health care professional.
4. The facility shall document any youth pat down, strip, or body cavity searches.
(b) Visitors. The facility shall develop protocols for the searching of visitors and their possessions.
(c) Facility. At a minimum, monthly facility searches of all youth accessible areas shall be conducted and documented to control the existence of contraband.
(5) Door and lock inspections. Monthly inspections shall be conducted and documented to determine if all facility doors and locks within and to the secure perimeter of the facility are in good working order.
(6) Facility repair. Any damage to the facility that compromises safety or security shall be promptly and securely repaired.
(7) Master control center. A facility with a master control center shall do all of the following:
(a) Restrict access to the master control center to designated staff.
(b) Secure the master control center at all times.
DOC 347.48 Observation of youth.
(1) The facility shall have a system for providing wellness checks of youth. All youth shall be personally observed by facility security staff at staggered intervals not to exceed any of the following:
(a) Thirty minutes for youth in the general population.
(b) Fifteen minutes for any of the following:
1. Youth on a suicide or self-harm watch.
2. Youth in administrative confinement.
3. Youth in a receiving room or holding room.
(2) Each wellness check shall be documented.
(3) A video monitoring system may not be used to replace personal observations.
(4) Staff shall provide direct continuous personal observation when a youth is mechanically restrained.
(5) Formal physical counts of youth shall be conducted and documented at least three times per day, with a minimum of one count per shift.
(6) The facility shall allow youth to shower, perform bodily functions, and change clothing without nonmedical staff of the opposite gender viewing their breasts, buttocks, or genitalia, except in exigent circumstances or when such viewing is incidental to routine wellness checks.
(7) Staff of the opposite gender shall be required to announce their presence when entering a housing unit or an area where youth are likely to be showering, performing bodily functions, or changing clothing.
(8) There may be no physical or visual contact between youth and adult inmates.
(9) There may be no sustained sound contact between youth and adult inmates.
DOC 347.49 Administrative confinement.
(1) Administrative confinement may only be used for a youth who poses a serious risk of imminent physical harm to others or facility security.
(2) The facility shall designate on-site supervisory staff who may initiate administrative confinement and remove youth from administrative confinement.
(3) If at any point the youth no longer poses a risk of imminent physical harm, he or she must be immediately returned to general population.
(4) An initial period of administrative confinement may not exceed four hours for a youth posing a risk of imminent physical harm to others.
(5) Administrative confinement may be extended in four hour increments if a qualified mental health professional recommends extending the administrative confinement because the youth continues to pose a risk of imminent physical harm to others. The recommendation shall be documented.
(6) Administrative confinement time limits may be tolled from 8 pm to 8 am.
(7) The facility shall notify the following individuals of an administrative confinement placement:
(a) Qualified mental health professional.
(b) Qualified health care professional.
(c) Facility personnel.
(d) The youth’s parent or guardian.
(e) County or tribe of placement.
(8) The facility shall document all actions and decisions regarding youth in administrative confinement to include all of the following:
(a) Date, time, and name of supervisor making placement.
(b) Reason placement is initiated or extended.
(c) Date and time of notification to the individuals in sub. (7).
DOC 347.50 Use of force.
(1) General Provisions.
(a) Staff shall only use physical force by employing the least restrictive appropriate means and only for the amount of time necessary to bring the situation under control.
(b) Using physical force for punishment, discipline, retaliation, or as a substitute for treatment is prohibited.
(c) Staff may only use the amount of force reasonably necessary to achieve the objective for which force is used.
(2) Incident Reporting.
(a) Any staff member who uses force or witnesses a use of force shall submit a written report describing the incident to their supervisor for review. The report shall include all known relevant facts and be submitted by the end of the shift.
(b) All use of force incidents shall be reviewed by a supervisor and documented.
(c) The facility shall conduct and document a multi-disciplinary operational review following a use of force.
(d) Facility procedures shall address the role, notification, and follow-up of qualified health care and mental health care professionals following use of force incidents.
DOC 347.51 Use of restraints.
(1) Restraint devices may only be applied if staff determine that they are the least restrictive means of addressing an imminent threat of physical harm to self or others or damage to property. Restraint devices must be removed immediately upon the youth regaining composure and when the threat of harm or the safety concern has abated.
(2) Restraint devices may never be used as punishment.
(3) A youth may be placed in the least restrictive mechanical restraints when leaving the secure perimeter of the facility to prevent the harm of youth or staff.
(4) Except under circumstances described in sub. (3), the incident reporting procedure outlined in s. DOC 347.50 (2) shall apply if a youth is mechanically restrained.
(5) A staff person is assigned to monitor the youth and shall remain in continuous auditory and visual contact with the youth. Observations of the youth’s behavior and any staff interventions shall be documented at least once every 15 minutes, with actual time of the documentation recorded.
DOC 347.52 Fire safety and emergency preparedness.
(1) The facility shall comply with applicable federal, state, and local fire safety codes.
(2) The facility shall have and shall properly maintain self-contained breathing apparatuses and fire extinguishers sufficient to support the need of the facility. The facility shall place the equipment in accordance with the advice of the local fire department.
(3) The facility shall maintain a record of all fire inspections conducted as required under sub (1).
(4) Staff shall conduct and document monthly fire safety inspections of the facility.
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