Sec. 320.5. Intensive intermediate care program model

The intensive intermediate care program (IICP) is a program that includes a separate housing location within a correctional facility designed to address:

(a) the corrections-based therapeutic treatment of inmates currently diagnosed with a serious mental illness who, due to their behavior, would otherwise be serving primarily long-term keeplock; and

(b) the corrections-based therapeutic treatment of other inmates who require alternate placement from an ICP due to a less than satisfactory custodial adjustment.

The unit seeks to address the therapeutic needs of the inmates, while maintaining adequate safety and security on the unit. Although an IICP is not operated as a disciplinary housing unit, in light of the security concerns associated with the behaviors that resulted in their confinement and other sanctions, inmates on the unit are subject to limitations on the quantity and type of property they are permitted to have in their cells and are afforded access to programs that are more restrictive than those afforded general population, in order to maintain security and order on the unit. After a brief orientation period and absent exceptional circumstances, in addition to exercise, inmates are offered at least four hours of structured out-of-cell therapeutic programming and/or mental health treatment on a daily basis, except on weekends and holidays. Programming is similar to an ICP, with additional therapeutic programs centering on increasing behavioral control and future adjustment to the correctional environment.