N.J. Stat. § 30:1B-6.7

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Definitions relative to incarcerated primary caretaker parents.

Official statutory text

3. As used in this act: "Department" means the Department of Corrections. "Isolated confinement" means the confinement of an inmate in a correctional facility, pursuant to disciplinary, administrative, protective, investigative, medical, or other classification, in a cell or similarly confined holding or living space, alone or with other inmates, for approximately 23 hours or more per day, with severely restricted activity, movement, and social interaction, and shall include, but not be limited to, administrative segregation, disciplinary segregation, solitary confinement, and protective segregation. "Office" means the Office of the Corrections Ombudsman. "Primary caretaker parent" means any inmate who has a child under the age of 18, who prior to the inmate's incarceration, spent the majority of days in the care of the inmate parent, and whose access to that child has not been terminated by court order, the inmate's own request, or other circumstance. "Restraint" mean any physical restraint or mechanical device used to control the movement of a inmate's or detainee's body and limbs, including, but not limited to, shackles, flex cuffs, soft restraints, hard metal handcuffs, a black box, Chubb cuffs, leg irons, belly chains, a security or tether chain, or a convex shield. L.2019, c.288, s.3.

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