training of young adult offenders, as defined in Section 6.05, providing, if need be by separate units, for diversified security and custody;
(e) a medical-correctional facility to keep prisoners with difficult or chronic medical and psychiatric problems, which, if the number of persons committed to the Department reaches ], is a separate institution;
(f) one or more institutions for female prisoners committed to the Department, providing, if need be by separate units, for diversified security and custody;
(g) one or more state misdemeanant institutions for misdemeanants committed to the Department [for an extended term], providing, if need be by separate units, for diversified security and custody].
(3) When the Director of Correction finds that certain classes or categories of persons committed to the Department require specialized treatment, or treatment of a kind that it is not feasible to provide within the state correctional system, the Director of Correction shall seek to place such prisoners in institutions providing such treatment in another jurisdiction, and may agree to pay reimbursement therefor. A prisoner so transferred to an out-of-state institution shall be subject to the rules and regulations of such institution concerning the custody, conduct and discipline of its inmates, but shall remain subject to the provisions of this Code concerning his term, reduction of term for good behavior, and release on parole.
304.3. Central Prisoner File; Treatment, Classification
and Reclassification in Institutions
(1) The Warden or other administrative head of a correctional institution shall establish and maintain, in accordance with the regulations of the Department, a central file in the institution containing an individual file for each prisoner. Each prisoner's file shall include: (a) his admission summary; (b) his pre-sentence investigation report; (c) the report and recommendation of the Reception Classification Board; (d) the official records of his conviction and commitment as well as earlier criminal records, if any; (e) progress reports and admission-orientation reports from treatment and custodial staff; (f) reports of his disciplinary infractions, and of their disposition; (g) his parole plan, prepared in accordance with Section 305.7; and (h) other pertinent data concerning his background, conduct, associations, and family relationships. Each prisoner's file shall be carefully reviewed before any decision is made concerning his classification, reclassification, or parole release. The content of the prisoners' files shall be confidential and shall not be subject to public inspection except by court order for good cause shown and shall not be accessible to prisoners in the institution.
(2) The Warden or other administrative head in each correctional institution shall appoint a Treatment Classification Committee with himself or his representative as chairman, and consisting of representatives of the treatment, custodial, and parole services, of medical, psychiatric or psychological personnel, of personnel concerned with the education and vocational training of inmates, and of such other persons as he may designate. Members of the Treatment Classification Committee shall serve at the pleasure of the Warden or other administrative head.
(3) When a prisoner is transferred to a correctional institution from a reception center or from any other institution, the Classification Committee of such receiving institution shall, within [two] months of receiving the prisoner, study his presentence investigation report, his criminal history and escape record, if any, the report of the Reception Classification Board, the admission-orientation reports of the custodial and treatment officers of the institution, the attitudes and preferences of the prisoner, and such other relevant information as may be available in the prisoner's file or from other sources and shall aid the Warden or other administrative head of the institution in determining the prisoner's program of treatment, training, employment, care and custody.
(4) The Classification Committee, or a subcommittee thereof designated by the Warden or other administrative head, shall review the program of each prisoner at regular intervals and whenever a member of the Committee so requests, and shall recommend to the Warden such changes in the prisoner's program of treatment, training, employment, care and custody as it considers necessary or desirable.
(5) Approximately [three] months before a prisoner will be considered by the Board of Parole for release on parole, the Classification Committee shall re-examine the prisoner's individual file, shall prepare a report summarizing and evaluating the prisoner's progress, and may recommend to the Warden or other administrative head (a) that the prisoner be reclassified for pre-parole preparation at that institution or at another institution after transfer thereto or (b) that the prisoner's reclassification for pre-parole preparation be postponed, for a definite or indefinite period of time, stating the reason for such recommendation in the record. A copy of the Classification Committee's report shall be forwarded to the Board of Parole and shall be available to such Board in advance of the prisoner's hearing before the Board of Parole.
(6) The Warden or other administrative head of the institution shall have final authority to determine matters of treatment classification within his institution and to recommend to the Director of Correction the transfer of any prisoner.
304.4. Segregation and Transfer of Prisoners with Physical or Mental Diseases or Defects
(1) When an institutional physician finds that a prisoner suffers from a physical disease or defect, or when an institutional physician or psychologist finds that a prisoner suffers from a mental disease or defect, the Warden or other administrative head may order such prisoner to be segregated from other prisoners, and if the physician or psychologist, as the case may be, is of the opinion that he cannot be given proper treatment at that institution, the Warden or other administrative head shall recommend to the Director of Correction that such prisoner be transferred for examination, study and treatment to the medical-correctional facility, if any, or to another institution in the Department where proper treatment is available.
(2) The Warden or other administrative head in each correctional institution shall appoint a Treatment Classification Committee with himself or his representative as chairman, and consisting of representatives of the treatment, custodial, and parole services, of medical, psychiatric or psychological personnel, of personnel concerned with the education and vocational training of inmates, and of such other persons as he may designate. Members of the Treatment Classification Committee shall serve at the pleasure of the Warden or other administrative head.
(3) When a prisoner is transferred to a correctional institution from a reception center or from any other institution, the Classification Committee of such receiving institution shall, within [two] months of receiving the prisoner, study his presentence investigation report, his criminal history and escape record, if any, the report of the Reception Classification Board, the admission-orientation reports of the custodial and treatment officers of the institution, the attitudes and preferences of the prisoner, and such other relevant information as may be available in the prisoner's file or from other sources and shall aid the Warden or other administrative head of the institution in determining the prisoner's program of treatment, training, employment, care and custody.
(4) The Classification Committee, or a subcommittee thereof designated by the Warden or other administrative head, shall re view the program of each prisoner at regular intervals and whenever a member of the Committee so requests, and shall recommend to the Warden such changes in the prisoner's program of treatment, training, employment, care and custody as it considers
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