33-404.101 Mental Health Services Program -- Purpose and Scope. 🔗 📘
(1) Mental health services are those services and activities that are provided primarily by mental health staff and secondarily by other health care staff for the purposes of:
(a) Identifying inmates who are experiencing disabling symptoms of a mental illness that impair the ability to function adequately within the incarceration environment;
(b) Providing appropriate intervention to alleviate disabling symptoms of a diagnosed mental illness;
(c) Assisting inmates with a mental illness adjust to the demands of prison life;
(d) Assisting inmates with a mental illness to maintain a level of adaptive functioning; and
(e) Providing re-entry mental health planning to facilitate the inmate's continuity of care after release to the community.
(2) Inmates in the custody of the Department will be offered mental health services commensurate with their individualized needs as determined by qualified mental health staff. Such services will be provided in accordance with prevailing correctional standards of care. Inmates receiving mental health services will be offered the opportunity to participate in the development of their individualized treatment plan in accordance with Section 945.41, Florida Statutes.
(3) The Department will provide the following levels of mental health care:
(a) Outpatient;
(b) Infirmary; and
(c) Inpatient treatment services to include:
1. Transitional mental health care;
2. Crisis stabilization care; and
3. Corrections Mental Health Treatment Facility Care.
(4) Inmates are offered the least restrictive appropriate treatment and services based on their assessed mental health needs and best interests and consistent with the improvement of their assessed mental health condition and appropriate adjustment within the correctional environment.