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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (Corrections Services); State level · Louisiana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- La. R.S. 36:404; Department Regulation C-02-008
- Issued
- 2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-12 (visiting); 2020-03-13 (off-site trips) (read as 2020-03-12)
- End
- Reviewed every 30 days; visiting remained suspended through 2020 (video visitation from Apr. 27, 2020) (read as 2020-04-27)
- In force
- Mar. 12, 2020 to Apr. 27, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capTravel and quarantineHealth care orders
- Addressees
- inmates and their families
- attorneys
- medical providers (off-site clinics)
- funeral homes
- Functions reached
- VS visitors (travel to prisons discouraged in terms)
- CR attorney visits
- OC off-site medical clinics (trips cancelled)
- CB funeral homes
- Collection
- State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD
Operative words
1. Effective immediately, all visiting is suspended at state prisons. You are encouraged to contact your family immediately to notify them of this decision and urge them not to travel to the prisons until notification that visiting has resumes. We will review the decision on visitation restriction every 30 days until the threat subsides. a. For all intent and purposes, attorney visits are included in this restriction.... 3. Effectively Friday, March 13, 2020, we are discontinuing off-site non-emergent (non-life threatening) trips. a. Medical trip, including off-site clinics, are being cancelled by medical staff.
Enforcement
Secretary's authority over visitation under Department Regulation C-02-008
Notes
Reached community medical clinics and hospitals that served the incarcerated population off-site, and the attorney bar.