2019 Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 3 - Correctional Facilities and Programs
Chapter 32 - Treatment of Female Inmates or Detainees
§ 12-32-101. Definitions
- As used in this chapter:
(1) “Correctional or detention facility” means:
(A) 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
(B) A post-incarceration residential reentry facility designed to house a person on parole;
(2) “Detainee” includes a person detained under the immigration laws of the United States;
(3) “Inmate” means any person incarcerated in a correctional or detention facility for any reason;
(4) “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;
(5) “Post-partum” means, as determined by the physician of the inmate or detainee, the thirty-day period following delivery of a child; and
(6)
(A) “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:
(i) Flex cuffs;
(ii) Soft restraints;
(iii) Hard metal handcuffs;
(iv) A black box;
(v) Chubb cuffs;
(vi) Leg irons;
(vii) Belly chains;
(viii) A security tether or chain;
(ix) A convex shield; and
(x) Restraints connecting more than one (1) inmate or detainee.
(B) “Restraints” does not include a door to a room.
