Special Management/Isolation Cells

(1) The county correctional facility shall provide special management rooms with living conditions that approximate those of the general inmate population. Special management housing units shall provide the following: (a) single occupancy rooms or cells with a floor area of at least 70 square feet where confinement exceeds ten hours per day (excluding a normal eight hour sleep period), this requirement applies only to renovations and new facilities; (b) a bed at above floor level, desk or writing surface and proximate area to sit; and, (c) continuous access to the following: 1. above-floor toilet facilities; 2. hot and cold running water; and, 3. natural light (2) Special management rooms shall have doors which provide staff with the ability to observe within the room and inmates with the ability to communicate with staff outside the room. 103 CMR 920.11 shall not apply to community release facilities.