                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 53.1-40.11)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Postpartum recovery&#8221; means the eight-week period, or longer as
determined by the health care professional responsible for the health and safety
of the prisoner, following childbirth.
		&#8220;Restraints&#8221; means any mechanical device, medication, physical
intervention, or hands-on hold to prevent an individual from moving her body.
		&#8220;Restrictive housing&#8221; means the same as that term is defined in §
53.1-39.1.
		&#8220;Solitary confinement&#8221; means isolation of a prisoner from the
general population through confinement to a cell or other place for 22 or more
hours within a 24-hour period.

HISTORY: 2020, c. 526.