N.D. Cent. Code § 12-44.1-01

12-44.1-01. Definitions

As used in this chapter:

1. "Administrator" means the sheriff, chief of police, administrator, superintendent,

director, or other individual serving as the chief executive officer of a correctional

facility.

2. "Adult lockup" means a secure temporary-hold nonresidential facility that does not hold

individuals overnight and includes a facility with cuffing rails or cuffing benches.

3. "Correctional facility" means a city or county jail or detention center, regional

corrections center, or juvenile detention center for the detention or confinement of

persons in accordance with law. The use of the term does not imply and may not be

used to require the provision of services including treatment, counseling, career and

technical education, or other educational services, except as may otherwise be

required or provided for under this chapter.

4. "Correctional facility staff" means correctional personnel with titles such as jailer,

deputy, counselor, correctional officer, or any other title, whose duties include the

ongoing supervision of inmates in a correctional facility.

5. "Court holding facility" means a secure facility, other than an adult correctional facility

or adult lockup, used to temporarily detain individuals before or after a detention

hearing or other court proceedings, and is not used to detain individuals overnight.

6. "Individual justice planning" means a process to identify, accommodate, and develop

appropriate consequences for behaviors caused by or related to an individual's mental

or cognitive impairment.

7. "Inmate" means any individual, whether sentenced or unsentenced, who is detained or

confined in a correctional facility. The term does not include an individual who is under

the supervision of the correctional facility and is supervised under home detention,

electronic monitoring, or a similar program that does not involve physical detention or

confinement in the facility.

8. "Jail" means a correctional facility, including a county or city jail or a regional

corrections center.

9. "Juvenile detention center" means a publicly maintained correctional facility for the

detention of juveniles. The term does not include the North Dakota youth correctional

center.

10. "Regional corrections center" means a correctional facility established and maintained

by more than one county or city, or a combination of counties and cities, for the

confinement of inmates.

11. "Trained correctional facility staff" means correctional personnel who have completed

a course of training approved by the peace officer standards and training board.