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Full Text of HB1958  97th General Assembly

HB1958ham002 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Robyn Gabel

Filed: 4/11/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1958

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1958, AS AMENDED, by
3replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4following:
 
5    "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
6Section 3-15003.6 as follows:
 
7    (55 ILCS 5/3-15003.6)
8    Sec. 3-15003.6. Pregnant female prisoners.
9    (a) Definitions. For the purpose of this Section:
10        (1) "Restraints" means any physical restraint or
11    mechanical device used to control the movement of a
12    prisoner's body or limbs, or both, including, but not
13    limited to, flex cuffs, soft restraints, hard metal
14    handcuffs, a black box, Chubb cuffs, leg irons, belly
15    chains, a security (tether) chain, or a convex shield, or
16    shackles of any kind.

 

 

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1        (2) "Labor" means the period of time before a birth and
2    shall include any medical condition in which a woman is
3    sent or brought to the hospital for the purpose of
4    delivering her baby. These situations include: induction
5    of labor, prodromal labor, pre-term labor, prelabor
6    rupture of membranes, the 3 stages of active labor, uterine
7    hemorrhage during the third trimester of pregnancy, and
8    caesarian delivery including pre-operative preparation.
9        (3) "Post-partum" means, as determined by her
10    physician, the period immediately following delivery,
11    including the entire period a woman is in the hospital or
12    infirmary after birth.
13        (4) "Correctional institution" means any entity under
14    the authority of any state, county, or municipal law
15    enforcement division that has the power to detain or
16    restrain, or both, a person under the laws of the State.
17        (5) "Corrections official" means the official that is
18    responsible for oversight of a correctional institution,
19    or his or her designee.
20        (6) "Prisoner" means any person incarcerated or
21    detained in any facility who is accused of, convicted of,
22    sentenced for, or adjudicated delinquent for, violations
23    of criminal law or the terms and conditions of parole,
24    probation, pretrial release, or diversionary program, and
25    any person detained under the immigration laws of the
26    United States at any correctional facility.

 

 

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1        (7) "Extraordinary circumstance" means an
2    extraordinary medical or security circumstance, including
3    a substantial flight risk, that dictates restraints be used
4    to ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, the
5    staff of the correctional institution or medical facility,
6    other prisoners, or the public.
7    (b) A county department of corrections shall not apply
8security restraints to a prisoner that has been determined by a
9qualified medical professional to be pregnant and is known by
10the county department of corrections to be pregnant or in
11postpartum recovery, which is the entire period a woman is in
12the medical facility after birth, unless the corrections
13official makes an individualized determination that the
14prisoner presents a substantial flight risk or some other
15extraordinary circumstance that dictates security restraints
16be used to ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, her
17child or unborn child, the staff of the county department of
18corrections or medical facility, other prisoners, or the
19public. The protections set out in clauses (b)(3) and (b)(4) of
20this Section shall apply to security restraints used pursuant
21to this subsection. The corrections official shall immediately
22remove all restraints upon the written or oral request of
23medical personnel. When medical personnel makes an oral
24request, that request will be verified in writing as promptly
25as reasonably possible.
26        (1) Qualified authorized health staff shall have the

 

 

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1    authority to order therapeutic restraints for a pregnant or
2    postpartum prisoner who is a danger to herself, her child,
3    unborn child, or other persons due to a psychiatric or
4    medical disorder. Therapeutic restraints may only be
5    initiated, monitored and discontinued by qualified and
6    authorized health staff and used to safely limit a
7    prisoner's mobility for psychiatric or medical reasons. No
8    order for therapeutic restraints shall be written unless
9    medical or mental health personnel, after personally
10    observing and examining the prisoner, are clinically
11    satisfied that the use of therapeutic restraints is
12    justified and permitted in accordance with hospital
13    policies and applicable State law. Metal handcuffs or
14    shackles are not considered therapeutic restraints.
15        (2) Whenever therapeutic restraints are used by
16    medical personnel, Section 2-108 of the Mental Health and
17    Developmental Disabilities Code shall apply.
18        (3) Leg irons, shackles or waist shackles shall not be
19    used on any pregnant or postpartum prisoner regardless of
20    security classification. Except for therapeutic restraints
21    under clause (b)(2), no restraints of any kind may be
22    applied to prisoners during labor.
23        (4) When a pregnant or postpartum prisoner must be
24    restrained, restraints used shall be the least restrictive
25    restraints possible to ensure the safety and security of
26    the prisoner, her child, unborn child, the staff of the

 

 

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1    county department of corrections or medical facility,
2    other prisoners, or the public, and in no case shall
3    include leg irons, shackles or waist shackles.
4        (5) Upon the pregnant prisoner's entry into a hospital
5    room, and completion of initial room inspection, a
6    corrections official shall be posted immediately outside
7    the hospital room, unless requested to be in the room by
8    medical personnel attending to the prisoner's medical
9    needs.
10        (6) The county department of corrections shall provide
11    adequate corrections personnel to monitor the pregnant
12    prisoner during her transport to and from the hospital and
13    during her stay at the hospital.
14        (7) Where the county department of corrections
15    requires prisoner safety assessments, a corrections
16    official may enter the hospital room to conduct periodic
17    prisoner safety assessments, except during a medical
18    examination or the delivery process.
19        (8) Upon discharge from a medical facility, postpartum
20    prisoners shall be restrained only with handcuffs in front
21    of the body during transport to the county department of
22    corrections. A corrections official shall immediately
23    remove all security restraints upon written or oral request
24    by medical personnel. When medical personnel makes an oral
25    request, that request shall be verified in writing as
26    promptly as reasonably possible.

 

 

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1    (c) Enforcement. No later than 30 days before the end of
2each fiscal year, the county sheriff or corrections official of
3each municipal and county correctional institution where a
4pregnant prisoner has been restrained during that previous
5fiscal year, shall each submit a written report to the Illinois
6General Assembly and the Office of the Governor that includes
7an account of every instance of prisoner restraint pursuant to
8this Section. The written report shall state the date, time,
9location and rationale for each instance in which restraints
10are used. The written report shall not contain any individually
11identifying information of any prisoner. Such reports shall be
12made available for public inspection.
13Notwithstanding any other statute, directive, or
14administrative regulation, when a pregnant female prisoner is
15brought to a hospital from a County Department of Corrections
16facility for the purpose of delivering her baby, no handcuffs,
17shackles, or restraints of any kind may be used during her
18transport to a medical facility for the purpose of delivering
19her baby. Under no circumstances may leg irons or shackles or
20waist shackles be used on any pregnant female prisoner who is
21in labor. Upon the pregnant female prisoner's entry to the
22hospital delivery room, a county correctional officer must be
23posted immediately outside the delivery room. The Sheriff must
24provide for adequate personnel to monitor the pregnant female
25prisoner during her transport to and from the hospital and
26during her stay at the hospital.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 91-253, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
2    Section 10. The County Jail Act is amended by changing
3Section 17.5 as follows:
 
4    (730 ILCS 125/17.5)
5    Sec. 17.5. Pregnant female prisoners.
6    (a) Definitions. For the purpose of this Section:
7        (1) "Restraints" means any physical restraint or
8    mechanical device used to control the movement of a
9    prisoner's body or limbs, or both, including, but not
10    limited to, flex cuffs, soft restraints, hard metal
11    handcuffs, a black box, Chubb cuffs, leg irons, belly
12    chains, a security (tether) chain, or a convex shield, or
13    shackles of any kind.
14        (2) "Labor" means the period of time before a birth and
15    shall include any medical condition in which a woman is
16    sent or brought to the hospital for the purpose of
17    delivering her baby. These situations include: induction
18    of labor, prodromal labor, pre-term labor, prelabor
19    rupture of membranes, the 3 stages of active labor, uterine
20    hemorrhage during the third trimester of pregnancy, and
21    caesarian delivery including pre-operative preparation.
22        (3) "Post-partum" means, as determined by her
23    physician, the period immediately following delivery,
24    including the entire period a woman is in the hospital or

 

 

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1    infirmary after birth.
2        (4) "Correctional institution" means any entity under
3    the authority of any state, county, or municipal law
4    enforcement division that has the power to detain or
5    restrain, or both, a person under the laws of the State.
6        (5) "Corrections official" means the official that is
7    responsible for oversight of a correctional institution,
8    or his or her designee.
9        (6) "Prisoner" means any person incarcerated or
10    detained in any facility who is accused of, convicted of,
11    sentenced for, or adjudicated delinquent for, violations
12    of criminal law or the terms and conditions of parole,
13    probation, pretrial release, or diversionary program, and
14    any person detained under the immigration laws of the
15    United States at any correctional facility.
16        (7) "Extraordinary circumstance" means an
17    extraordinary medical or security circumstance, including
18    a substantial flight risk, that dictates restraints be used
19    to ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, the
20    staff of the correctional institution or medical facility,
21    other prisoners, or the public.
22    (b) A county department of corrections shall not apply
23security restraints, except as permitted under clause (b)(3),
24to a prisoner that has been determined by a qualified medical
25professional to be pregnant and is known by the county
26department of corrections to be pregnant or in postpartum

 

 

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1recovery, which is the entire period a woman is in the medical
2facility after birth, unless the corrections official makes an
3individualized determination that the prisoner presents a
4substantial flight risk or some other extraordinary security
5circumstance that dictates security restraints be used to
6ensure the safety and security of the prisoner, her child or
7unborn child, the staff of the county department of corrections
8or medical facility, other prisoners, or the public. The
9protections set out in clauses (b)(3) and (b)(4) of this
10Section shall apply to security restraints used pursuant to
11this subsection. The corrections official shall immediately
12remove all restraints upon the written or oral request of
13medical personnel. When medical personnel makes an oral
14request, that request will be verified in writing as promptly
15as reasonably possible.
16        (1) Qualified and authorized health staff shall have
17    the authority to order therapeutic restraints for a
18    pregnant or postpartum prisoner who is a danger to herself,
19    her child, unborn child, or other persons due to a
20    psychiatric or medical disorder. Therapeutic restraints
21    may only be initiated, monitored and discontinued only by
22    qualified and authorized health staff and used to safely
23    limit a prisoner's mobility for psychiatric or medical
24    reasons. No order for therapeutic restraints shall be
25    written unless medical or mental health personnel, after
26    personally observing and examining the prisoner, are

 

 

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1    clinically satisfied that the use of therapeutic
2    restraints is justified and permitted in accordance with
3    hospital policies and applicable State law. Metal
4    handcuffs or shackles are not considered therapeutic
5    restraints.
6        (2) Whenever therapeutic restraints are used by
7    medical personnel, Section 2-108 of the Mental Health and
8    Developmental Disabilities Code shall apply.
9        (3) Leg irons, shackles or waist shackles shall not be
10    used on any pregnant or postpartum prisoner regardless of
11    security classification. Except for therapeutic restraints
12    under clause (b)(2), no restraints of any kind may be
13    applied to prisoners who are in labor. When restraints are
14    necessary during transport of pregnant prisoners who are
15    not in labor or pregnancy-related medical distress,
16    restraints shall be limited to handcuffs in front.
17        (4) When a pregnant or postpartum prisoner must be
18    restrained, restraints used shall be the least restrictive
19    restraints possible to ensure the safety and security of
20    the prisoner, her child, unborn child, the staff of the
21    county department of corrections or medical facility,
22    other prisoners, or the public.
23        (5) Upon the pregnant prisoner's entry into a hospital
24    room, and completion of initial room inspection, a
25    corrections official shall be posted immediately outside
26    the hospital room, unless requested to be in the room by

 

 

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1    medical personnel attending to the prisoner's medical
2    needs.
3        (6) The county department of corrections shall provide
4    adequate personnel to monitor the pregnant prisoner during
5    her transport to and from the hospital and during her stay
6    at the hospital.
7        (7) Where the county department of corrections
8    requires prisoner safety assessments, a corrections
9    official may enter the hospital room to conduct periodic
10    prisoner safety assessments, except during a medical
11    examination or the delivery process.
12        (8) Upon discharge from a medical facility, postpartum
13    prisoners shall be restrained only with handcuffs in front
14    of the body during transport to the county department of
15    corrections. The corrections official shall immediately
16    remove all security restraints upon written or oral request
17    by medical personnel. When medical personnel makes an oral
18    request, that request will be verified in writing as
19    promptly as reasonably possible.
20    (c) Enforcement.
21    No later than 30 days before the end of each fiscal year,
22the county sheriff or corrections official of each municipal
23and county correctional institution where a pregnant prisoner
24has been restrained during that previous fiscal year, shall
25each submit a written report to the Illinois General Assembly
26and the Office of the Governor that includes an account of

 

 

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1every instance of prisoner restraint pursuant to this Section,
2except as permitted under clause (b)(3). The written report
3shall state the date, time, location and rationale for each
4instance in which restraints are used. The written report shall
5not contain any individually identifying information of any
6prisoner. Such reports shall be made available for public
7inspection.
8    (d) Training of staff.
9    The County Department of Corrections shall require all
10security staff to undergo training in the treatment, movement,
11and transportation of pregnant prisoners during their initial
12training. The Department shall also include such training as a
13component in an annual training program.
14Notwithstanding any other statute, directive, or
15administrative regulation, when a pregnant female prisoner is
16brought to a hospital from a county jail for the purpose of
17delivering her baby, no handcuffs, shackles, or restraints of
18any kind may be used during her transport to a medical facility
19for the purpose of delivering her baby. Under no circumstances
20may leg irons or shackles or waist shackles be used on any
21pregnant female prisoner who is in labor. Upon the pregnant
22female prisoner's entry to the hospital delivery room, a county
23correctional officer must be posted immediately outside the
24delivery room. The Sheriff must provide for adequate personnel
25to monitor the pregnant female prisoner during her transport to
26and from the hospital and during her stay at the hospital.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 91-253, eff. 1-1-00.)".