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Ark. Code Ann. § 12-32-101

Definitions

Acts 2019, No. 566, § 1.

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Correctional or detention facility” means: A local or state correctional facility or detention facility that has the power to detain or restrain a person under the laws of the state, including a city jail, county jail, or facility operated by the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction; or

(2) A post-incarceration residential reentry facility designed to house a person on parole;

(3) “Detainee” includes a person detained under the immigration laws of the United States;

(4) “Inmate” means any person incarcerated in a correctional or detention facility for any reason;

(5) “Labor” means the period of time before a birth during which contractions are of sufficient frequency, intensity, and duration to bring about effacement and progressive dilation of the cervix;

(6) “Post-partum” means, as determined by the physician of the inmate or detainee, the thirty-day period following delivery of a child; and

(7) “Restraints” means a physical restraint or mechanical device used to control the movement of an inmate's or detainee's body or limbs, including without limitation: Flex cuffs;

(8) Soft restraints;

(9) Hard metal handcuffs;

(10) A black box;

(11) Chubb cuffs;

(12) Leg irons;

(13) Belly chains;

(14) A security tether or chain;

(15) A convex shield; and

(16) Restraints connecting more than one (1) inmate or detainee.

(17) “Restraints” does not include a door to a room.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.