Maine Revised Statutes > Title 34-A > Chapter 1 > Subchapter 1 – Definitions
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- Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
- Chief administrative officer: means the head of a correctional facility or a detention facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Corrections or his designee, except that, when the term "commissioner and only the commissioner" is used, the term applies only to the person appointed Commissioner of Corrections and not to any designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contract agency: means a facility or program outside the jurisdiction of the department, providing services under contract to the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Contract client: means a client residing in a facility or participating in a program outside the jurisdiction of the department under an agreement between the department and the contract agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Correctional facility: means any facility that falls under the jurisdiction of the department, but does not include any facility for which the department is required to establish standards pursuant to section 1208 or 1208?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Correctional program: includes , but is not limited to, probation and parole, court intake and jail inspection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Department: means the Department of Corrections. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Detention facility: means the Long Creek Youth Development Center. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Holding facility: means a facility or part of a building used for the detention of adult pretrial detainees prior to arraignment, release or transfer to another facility or authority for periods of up to 48 hours. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Informally adjusted juvenile: means a juvenile participating in a program of informal adjustment, as defined in Title 15, section 3003, subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Investigative officer: means an employee of the department designated by the commissioner as having the authority to conduct investigations of crimes or juvenile crimes relating to the security or orderly management of a facility administered by the department and engage in any other activity that is related to the administration of criminal justice as defined in Title 16, section 703, subsection 1 for the purposes of the Criminal History Record Information Act or as defined in Title 16, section 803, subsection 2 for the purposes of the Intelligence and Investigative Record Information Act or the administration of juvenile justice and who is certified by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy as a full-time law enforcement officer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Juvenile client: means a juvenile committed to a juvenile correctional facility who is either residing at the facility or is on community reintegration status, or ordered confined in a juvenile correctional facility pursuant to Title 12, section 6004, 8004 or 10608; Title 15, section 3314, subsection 1, paragraph H; Title 15, section 3314, subsection 7; or Title 29?A, section 115. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Juvenile detainee: means a juvenile detained at a departmental juvenile facility pending a court proceeding or pursuant to Title 15, section 3312, subsection 3, paragraph D. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001
- Likelihood of serious harm: means a:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001Parking area: means land maintained by the State at the correctional facilities which may be designated as parking areas by the chief administrative officers of the correctional facilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Person with mental illness: means a person who has attained 18 years of age and has been diagnosed as having a psychiatric or other illness that substantially impairs that person's mental health. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Prison: means the Maine State Prison. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Prisoner: means an adult person sentenced and committed to, transferred to or detained in the custody of the department, including a person on supervised community confinement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Public way: means a road or driveway on land maintained by the State at the correctional facilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Regional correctional administrator: means the supervisor of adult probation and parole services or the supervisor of juvenile community corrections officer services for a region. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Restorative justice: means a practice in which offenders take responsibility for causing harm and engage in a facilitated process with victims, family members, community members, advocates and others impacted by the harm that focuses on repairing the harm, addressing needs and preventing future harm. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Segregation: means the separation of a prisoner from the general population of a correctional facility for administrative or punitive reasons. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Short-term detention area: means a section of a building used for the detention of pretrial detainees for periods of up to 4 hours. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Written political material: means flyers, handbills or other nonperiodical publications, which are subject to the restrictions of Title 21?A, chapter 13. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 34-A Sec. 1001