{"id":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-025","kind":"context","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Arkansas Department of Health (guidance to State correctional facilities and local detention facilities); State level","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","eco":"","issuer":"Arkansas Department of Health","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. § 20-7-109","instrument":"ADH, \u0027COVID-19: Guidance for State Correctional Facilities and Local Detention Facilities\u0027 (Mar. 27, 2020)","title":"Guidance for prisons and county jails: visitation prohibited; screening of visitors, staff and volunteers; restriction of transfers between jurisdictions; PPE for staff","dateIssued":"2020-03-27","effective":"2020-03-27","end":"Superseded by ADH guidance of Apr. 15, 2020 (\u0027Reducing Spread of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities\u0027) and later editions","startDate":"2020-03-27","endDate":"2020-04-15","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC","EMP","GATH"],"addressees":["State correctional facilities","local detention facilities (county jails)","staff, volunteers and visitors"],"clause":"Currently, visitation to correctional facilities, and most detention facilities, has been prohibited. So that plans are in place when visitation restrictions are relaxed, criteria and protocols for enforcing visitor limitations and how you will communicate those limitations should be made.... Restrict transfers of offenders to and from other jurisdictions and facilities unless necessary for medical evaluation, medical isolation or quarantine, clinical care, extenuating security concerns","enforcement":"Guidance implementing the Governor\u0027s public health emergency; visitation prohibitions enforced by the facilities\u0027 own authority","functions":["VS visitors","VL volunteers","EMP staff and contractor screening and PPE","OP transfers"],"notes":"A statewide health-department record that visitation at prisons and \u0027most detention facilities\u0027 in Arkansas was prohibited as of Mar. 27, 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://doc.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ADH_Guidance_-_COVID-19_Guidance_for_State_Correctional_Facilities_and_Local_Detention_Facilities_-_March_27_2020.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20201205/https://doc.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ADH_Guidance_-_COVID-19_Guidance_for_State_Correctional_Facilities_and_Local_Detention_Facilities_-_March_27_2020.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":686856,"grade":"primary","character":"context","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","url":"/library/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-025","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-025","citation":"Arkansas Department of Health, ADH, \u0027COVID-19: Guidance for State Correctional Facilities and Local Detention Facilities\u0027 (Mar. 27, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-025)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":[]}