Correctional Administration: Admission and Intake

To verify lawful custody, establish the person's identity, assess immediate needs and risks, and create the records required for safe and accountable confinement.

A lawful directive issued by a competent authority requiring the reception or custody of a person in a designated correctional facility.

To prevent unlawful confinement and ensure that custody is supported by valid legal documentation.

Refer the discrepancy for verification and correction through authorized procedures rather than independently altering the legal documents.

An official record documenting persons received into a facility, including identifying information, admission details, and the legal basis for custody.

To establish that the person received is the individual named in the lawful custody documents and to prevent mistaken identity.

A structured interview conducted upon reception to collect relevant personal, legal, medical, safety, and institutional information.

To identify urgent medical or mental health needs, communicable disease concerns, medication requirements, and other conditions requiring timely attention.

The transition into custody may involve acute distress, and early identification permits appropriate protective and clinical responses.

A documented accounting of a person's belongings upon admission to establish custody, storage, return, or lawful disposition of property.

To establish accountability, prevent loss or disputes, and support lawful property management.

To support reliable identification, institutional recordkeeping, and authorized correctional administration.

A record containing relevant identifying, demographic, contact, and other administrative information about a person in custody.

A consolidated record containing legal, administrative, classification, program, and other authorized documents relevant to the person's confinement.

To document the sentence imposed, relevant judicial orders, and information needed for lawful sentence administration.

Errors may cause unlawful overdetention, premature release, or incorrect administration of sentence-related benefits.

The systematic assessment and grouping of persons in custody according to relevant legal status, security risks, needs, and institutional management considerations.

To assign appropriate custody, housing, supervision, and services while protecting safety and respecting legal requirements.

The first formal determination of custody, housing, and relevant management needs following reception and assessment.

A subsequent review and adjustment of an individual's custody or institutional assignment based on updated information and applicable criteria.

The assessment of the level of security and supervision appropriate for an individual in custody.

A classification generally involving relatively lower assessed security risks and correspondingly less restrictive supervision within authorized institutional arrangements.

A classification generally involving intermediate security controls for persons whose assessed risks require more supervision than minimum-security arrangements.

A classification generally involving heightened security controls and close supervision for persons assessed as presenting substantial custodial or institutional risks.

Current behavior, legal status, individual circumstances, escape risk, vulnerability, and other relevant factors may also affect appropriate custody decisions.

A structured evaluation of factors relevant to the likelihood or nature of specified adverse outcomes, such as violence, escape, or future offending.

A historical or otherwise relatively unchangeable characteristic used in risk assessment, such as certain prior offense records.

A potentially changeable characteristic relevant to risk, such as current substance misuse, behavior, or antisocial attitudes.

A changeable factor empirically associated with offending that may be addressed through suitable interventions.

A framework emphasizing intervention intensity matched to assessed risk, treatment of criminogenic needs, and methods suited to the individual's learning and circumstances.

The intensity of rehabilitative services should generally correspond to assessed risk of reoffending, avoiding unnecessary intensive intervention for low-risk individuals.

Interventions should focus on changeable factors associated with criminal behavior rather than unrelated characteristics.

Interventions should use effective methods adapted to relevant individual abilities, motivation, learning styles, and circumstances.

A documented plan identifying assessed needs, suitable interventions, responsibilities, and measurable goals for rehabilitation or institutional adjustment.

The assignment of persons in custody to suitable living areas based on security, safety, legal status, health, and other relevant considerations.

It protects children from inappropriate adult detention environments and supports compliance with applicable juvenile justice safeguards.

They have different legal statuses and custodial circumstances, and separation supports applicable standards and the presumption of innocence.

An authorized arrangement intended to protect a person facing a credible safety threat, subject to lawful safeguards and review.

Protection should address identified threats without imposing unnecessary restrictions or bypassing lawful disciplinary safeguards.

An evaluation of individual circumstances that may increase exposure to abuse, exploitation, neglect, or other custodial harm.

To review relevant information and make or recommend documented custody and placement decisions within authorized procedures.

Security risks, behavior, health, program participation, and institutional circumstances may change during confinement.

A documented account of authorized transfers or movements of a person in custody between facilities, units, or other locations.

They support lawful detention, continuity of services, reliable decisions, audits, investigations, and proper release administration.

Do not treat custody as automatically authorized; promptly seek verification and follow applicable legal reception procedures.

Immediate medical assessment and emergency response through the facility's established procedures.

A documented reclassification review using current evidence and applicable custody criteria, without assuming an automatic downgrade.

Individual safety and suitable protective housing or other lawful protective measures.

The risk principle of the risk-needs-responsivity model.

Refer the discrepancy for authorized verification and sentence recomputation before making a release decision.