§ 70.48.020 Definitions
§ 70.48.071 Standards for operation — Adoption by units of local government
§ 70.48.090 Interlocal contracts for jail services — Neighboring states — Responsibility for operation of jail — City or county departments of corrections authorized
§ 70.48.095 Regional jails
§ 70.48.100 Jail register, open to the public — Records confidential — Exception
§ 70.48.130 Emergency or necessary medical and health care for confined persons — Reimbursement procedures — Conditions — Limitations
§ 70.48.135 Pregnant inmates — Midwifery or doula services — Reasonable accommodations
§ 70.48.140 Confinement pursuant to authority of the United States
§ 70.48.160 Post-approval limitation on funding
§ 70.48.170 Short title
§ 70.48.180 Authority to locate and operate jail facilities — Counties
§ 70.48.190 Authority to locate and operate jail facilities — Cities and towns
§ 70.48.210 Farms, camps, work release programs, and special detention facilities
§ 70.48.215 Booking patients of state hospitals
§ 70.48.220 Confinement may be wherever jail services are contracted — Defendant contact with defense counsel
§ 70.48.230 Transportation and temporary confinement of prisoners
§ 70.48.240 Transfer of felons from jail to state institution — Time limit
§ 70.48.245 Transfer of persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injuries from jail to department of corrections facility
§ 70.48.380 Special detention facilities — Fees for cost of housing
§ 70.48.390 Fee payable by person being booked
§ 70.48.400 Sentences to be served in state institutions — When — Sentences that may be served in jail — Financial responsibility of city or county
§ 70.48.410 Financial responsibility for convicted felons
§ 70.48.420 Financial responsibility for persons detained on parole hold
§ 70.48.430 Financial responsibility for work release inmates detained in jail
§ 70.48.440 Office of financial management to establish reimbursement rate for cities and counties — Rate until June 30, 1985 — Reestablishment of rates
§ 70.48.450 Local jail reporting form — Information to be provided by city or county requesting payment for prisoners from state
§ 70.48.460 Contracts for incarceration services for prisoners not covered by RCW 70.48.400 through 70.48.450
§ 70.48.470 Sex, kidnapping offenders — Notices to offenders, law enforcement officials
§ 70.48.475 Release of offender or defendant subject to a discharge review — Required notifications
§ 70.48.480 Communicable disease prevention guidelines
§ 70.48.490 Delivery and administration of medications and medication assistance by nonpractitioner jail personnel — Conditions
§ 70.48.500 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody — Allowed in extraordinary circumstances
§ 70.48.501 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody — Provision of information to staff, women, or youth of childbearing age in custody
§ 70.48.502 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody — Limited immunity from liability
§ 70.48.510 Unexpected fatality review — Records — Discovery
§ 70.48.520 Collaboration with managed care organizations
§ 70.48.800 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody — Informational packet
§ 70.48.801 Jail standards task force

Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 70.48 - City and county jails act

  • Administration: means the direct application of a drug whether by ingestion or inhalation, to the body of an inmate by a practitioner or nonpractitioner jail personnel. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Correctional facility: means a facility operated by a governing unit primarily designed, staffed, and used for the housing of adult persons serving terms not exceeding one year for the purposes of punishment, correction, and rehabilitation following conviction of a criminal offense. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • delivery: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another of medication whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Detention facility: means a facility operated by a governing unit primarily designed, staffed, and used for the temporary housing of adult persons charged with a criminal offense prior to trial or sentencing and for the housing of adult persons for purposes of punishment and correction after sentencing or persons serving terms not to exceed ninety days. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Governing unit: means the city and/or county or any combinations of cities and/or counties responsible for the operation, supervision, and maintenance of a jail. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Health care: means preventive, diagnostic, and rehabilitative services provided by licensed health care professionals and/or facilities; such care to include providing prescription drugs where indicated. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Jail: means any holding, detention, special detention, or correctional facility as defined in this section. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • 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.
  • Labor: means the period of time before a birth during which contractions are of sufficient frequency, intensity, and duration to bring about effacement and progressive dilation of the cervix. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Medication: means a drug, legend drug, or controlled substance requiring a prescription or an over-the-counter or nonprescription drug. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Medication assistance: includes reminding or coaching the individual, handing the medication container to the individual, opening the individual's medication container, using an enabler, or placing the medication in the individual's hand. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Nonpractitioner jail personnel: means appropriately trained staff who are authorized to manage, deliver, or administer prescription and nonprescription medication under RCW 70. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Office: means the office of financial management. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Physical restraint: means the use of any bodily force or physical intervention to control an offender or limit an offender's freedom of movement in a way that does not involve a mechanical restraint. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Postpartum recovery: means (a) the entire period a woman or youth is in the hospital, birthing center, or clinic after giving birth and (b) an additional time period, if any, a treating physician determines is necessary for healing after the woman or youth leaves the hospital, birthing center, or clinic. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Restraints: means anything used to control the movement of a person's body or limbs and includes:
Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Special detention facility: means a minimum security facility operated by a governing unit primarily designed, staffed, and used for the housing of special populations of sentenced persons who do not require the level of security normally provided in detention and correctional facilities including, but not necessarily limited to, persons convicted of offenses under RCW 46. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Transportation: means the conveying, by any means, of an incarcerated pregnant woman or youth from the correctional facility or any facility covered by this chapter to another location from the moment she leaves the correctional facility or any facility covered by this chapter to the time of arrival at the other location, and includes the escorting of the pregnant incarcerated woman or youth from the correctional facility or facility covered by this chapter to a transport vehicle and from the vehicle to the other location. See Washington Code 70.48.020
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.