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Section 33-16-2 - Definitions.

NM Stat § 33-16-2 (2019) (N/A)
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As used in the Restricted Housing Act:

A. "correctional facility" means a jail, prison or other detention facility that is used for the confinement of adult or juvenile persons, whether operated by the state or a political subdivision of the state or a private contractor on behalf of the state or a political subdivision of the state;

B. "inmate" means an adult or juvenile person who is under sentence to or confined in a correctional facility;

C. "restricted housing", whether instituted pursuant to disciplinary, administrative, inmate classification or other action, means confinement of an inmate locked in a cell or similar living quarters in a correctional facility for twenty-two or more hours each day without daily, meaningful and sustained human interaction; and

D. "serious mental disability" means:

(1) a serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, psychosis, major depression and bipolar disorder; or

(2) having a significant functional impairment along with a brain injury, organic brain syndrome or intellectual disability.

History: Laws 2019, ch. 194, § 2.

Effective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 194, § 8 made Laws 2019, ch. 194 effective July 1, 2019.

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