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- Jurisdiction
- District of Columbia Department of Corrections; District (State-level) authority · District of Columbia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- D.C. Code § 24-211.02
- Issued
- 2020-03-27 Mar. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13 (visits suspended); 2020-03-27 at 4:30 p.m. (modified movement) (read as 2020-03-13)
- End
- For the entirety of the District's Public Health Emergency (which ran to July 25, 2021); in-person visits did not resume before 2021 (read as 2021-07-25)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to July 25, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capEvents and venuesOther
- Addressees
- visitors
- program providers and volunteers
- contractors (barbering and cosmetology; religious services)
- residents
- Functions reached
- VS visitors
- VL volunteers and program providers
- SL barbering and cosmetology contractors suspended
- WS religious services cancelled
- CB GTL and Securus (free calls substituted)
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD
Operative words
The Department of Corrections (DOC) has suspended all in-person visits, programming, and volunteer activities at its facilities for the entirety of the Public Health Emergency.... Effective 4:30 p.m.. Friday, March 27, 2020 - To mitigate the possible spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) through DC Department of Corrections (DC DOC) facilities, the Department will move to modified movement and activities effective immediately. For the safety of our workforce, residents, and contractors, DOC is implementing modified operations to minimize risk in our facilities, as much as practicable. This includes the cancellation of off-unit religious services, halting off-unit activities, and suspending barbering/cosmetology services.
Enforcement
Director's authority (D.C. Code § 24-211.02); Mayor's emergency orders
Notes
Ties the suspension's duration to the Public Health Emergency itself ('for the entirety'), which ran through Q3 2021 into July 2021; names barbering and cosmetology vendors and religious-service providers as suspended.