Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement.

Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilitiesand juvenile correctional centers. Isolated confinement is definedin the bill as confinement of a prisoner or juvenile to a cell, alone or with another prisoner or juvenile, for 20 hours or more per dayfor an adult or for 17 hours or more per day for a juvenile, otherthan for the purpose of providing medical or mental health treatment.The bill provides for exceptions for when isolated confinement maybe permitted in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctionalcenters. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022.