Or. Admin. Code § 291-013-0010 - Definitions
(1) Adult in
Custody (AIC): Any person under the supervision of the Department of
Corrections who is not on parole, probation, or post-prison supervision
status.
(2) Behavioral Health
Services (BHS): A Health Services unit with primary responsibility for the
assessment and treatment of adults in custody with mental illness and
developmental disabilities.
(3)
Carotid Hold: Application of a hold to the neck that restricts deoxygenated
blood leaving the brain, which may result in the person to whom it is applied
becoming unconscious.
(4) Chemical
Agents: Chemical compounds that when deployed are designed to cause sufficient
physiological effect to stop, control or temporarily incapacitate an
individual.
(5) Choke Hold:
Application of physical pressure applied directly to the neck area to restrict
air from entering the lungs.
(6)
Co-Located Minimum Security Facility/Level 2: A minimum security facility on
the grounds of a medium or higher security facility, but not within the fenced
perimeter of this higher security facility.
(7) Corporal Punishment: The use of physical
force for the purpose of punishment.
(8) Department of Corrections Facility: Any
institution, facility or employee office, including the grounds, operated by
the Department of Corrections.
(9)
Electronic Control Devices: Security equipment designed to stop, control or
temporarily incapacitate through the use of high voltage, low amperage electric
stimulation; e.g., conducted electrical weapons, electronic shield,
etc.
(10) Excessive Force: A type
or amount of force beyond that which is reasonably necessary to control the
situation and achieve the correctional objective; or the continued use of force
after it is no longer reasonably necessary.
(11) Functional Unit Manager: Any person
within the Department of Corrections who reports to the Director, Deputy
Director, an Assistant Director or administrator and has responsibility for
delivery of program services or coordination of program operations. In a
correctional setting the superintendent is the functional unit
manager.
(12) Hogtie Method:
Binding a person's wrists and ankles together behind the back while in a prone
position.
(13) Less Lethal Force:
Systems that are explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to
incapacitate while minimizing fatalities or permanent injury.
(14) Lethal Force: Physical force that has
substantial risk of causing death.
(15) Level of Force: The type of force
employed, amount of that type of force employed, and the circumstances within
which the force is employed.
(16)
Medium or Higher Security Facility/Level 3 or Higher: A medium or higher
security facility may house multiple custody classifications of adults in
custody within its secure perimeter, including custody Level 1 and 2 adults in
custody. Medium or higher security facilities will treat all adults in custody
as if they are classified Level 3 or higher custody.
(17) Negligent Discharge: An unintentional
discharge of security equipment caused by an action or event that an employee
could and should have foreseen or prevented.
(18) Officer-in-Charge: That person
designated by the functional unit manager to supervise and make operational
decisions in accordance with department policy, rule or procedure during
periods when the functional unit manager or officer-of-the-day is not readily
available.
(19) Out-of-Cell
Restraints Order: An order authorizing the use of security restraints to
restrict and control an adult in custody's movement when the adult in custody
is being transported or escorted outside of the adult in custody's
cell.
(20) Physical Force: The use
of hands, other parts of the body, objects, instruments, chemical devices,
electronic devices, firearms or other physical methods used to restrain,
subdue, control, intimidate or to compel persons to act in a particular way, or
to stop acting in a particular way.
(21) Planned Use of Force: The use of force
in situations where time and circumstances allow for consultation and approval
with higher ranking employees, and where there is some opportunity to plan the
actual use of force.
(22) Prone
Restraint: The process of placing an individual "face-down" upon a surface and
then securing or limiting the movement of the arms, legs, or trunk from that
surface.
(23) Reactive Use of
Force: The use of force in situations where time and circumstances do not
permit approval by higher ranking employees, or consultation or
planning.
(24) Reasonable Force:
The use of physical force to achieve a legitimate correctional objective, where
the type and amount of force are consistent with the situation and the
objective to be achieved; and where alternatives to physical force are
unavailable or ineffective; and where the force used is the minimum necessary
to control the situation.
(25)
Restraint Chair: A restraining device that allows for a person to sit upright
in a chair that is designed to immobilize the person.
(26) Secure Custody: Custody exercised upon a
person under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections by means of
physical confinement within a facility of the Department of Corrections, or
direct physical supervision of a person with or without use of restraints while
outside a Department of Corrections facility.
(27) Secure Program Chair: A specially
designed chair that restricts an adult in custody's movement to ensure the
safety of other individuals while allowing movement necessary to permit the
adult in custody to engage in individual or group programming out of the adult
in custody's cell.
(28) Security
Equipment: Firearms, ammunition, batons, chemical agents, security restraints,
electronic control devices, and similar devices.
(29) Security Restraints: Handcuffs,
temporary cuffs, leg irons, belly chains, restraining chairs, and other similar
equipment designed to restrict and control the person's movement from injuring
himself/herself, others, and escape.
(30) Serious Mental Illness (SMI): An MH3
code designation used to identify adult in custody with the highest mental
health treatment needs.
(31)
Serious Physical Injury: Physical injury which creates a substantial risk of
death or which causes serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted
impairment of health, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any
bodily organ.
(32) Show of Force: A
demonstration of the current ability to use force, such as the massing of
officers or tactical squads.
(33)
Stand Alone Minimum Security Facility: A minimum security facility that is not
on the grounds of a medium or higher security facility.
(34) Specialty Impact Munitions: Munitions
designed to incapacitate, distract, and control a subject with less likelihood
of life-threatening injury.
(35)
Therapeutic Restraints: A type of restraint applied to an adult in custody for
medical or mental health purposes and designed to limit an adult in custody's
movement. The kinds of restraints that may be used for therapeutic purposes
include, but are not limited to, leather, rubber or canvas restraints for the
arms, legs and upper torso.
(36)
Use of Force: Any situation in which an employee uses physical force against an
adult in custody or other person, except those situations in which security
restraints are used in a standard manner for arrest, escort, or transport, or
in which therapeutic restraints are used
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 179.040, 423.020, 423.030 & 423.075
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 179.040, 423.020, 423.030 & 423.075
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