SHU definition

SHU means Security Housing Unit. Some states use that acronym for their supermaximum security prison units, where the prisoners are locked in their cells nearly 24 hours per day and are cell-fed. Other states use other initials, but “SHU” has become the generic term for supermax or “maxi-maxi” or “control units,” such as the ones at Pelican Bay State Prison in California or Marion or Florence in the federal system. Thirty-eight states and the federal system currently operate such units.

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SHU means, only and without exception, the disciplinary Special Housing Unit at Green Haven or Auburn Correctional Facilities.

SHU means the disciplinary Special Housing Unit at Attica.

Examples of SHU in a sentence

• When a Keeplock sanction is imposed and is served in a SHU cell, service of the sanction will be credited at the rate of three days for every two days served in the SHU cell.

• Inmates returned to general confinement in the same facility where they served a SHU sanction or were in a SHU- Alternative Program will have continuity of case oversight by the assigned ORC in that facility.

• Aged 16 and 17 year-old inmates with SHU confinement sanctions in excess of 30 days will be placed in a separate housing unit, as an alternative to placement in SHU, absent extraordinary circumstances.

• DOCCS will conduct a comprehensive review of its rules and regulations governing the disciplinary process and conditions of confinement in SHU and initiate any additional rule-making it may deem necessary to carry out the terms of this Agreement and will provide any additional guidance to staff through directives, memoranda, post orders, manuals, orientation materials and other similar guidance it may deem necessary to carry out the terms hereof.

• DOCCS will maintain a written policy in the form of a memorandum by the Deputy Commissioner for Correctional Facilities continuing the presumption against placement of a pregnant inmate in SHU for disciplinary purposes, except in exceptional circumstances as determined by the DOCCS Central Office.

• Absent compliance, a recommendation may be made for alternate program placement or discharge to SHU.

• For the purposes of this Agreement, a “phone call” in SHU, a SHU Alternative Unit or the Separate Keeplock Unit means at least 15 minutes of phone use time, exclusive of the time needed to escort the inmate to or from the phone and without limitation to the number of calls an inmate may make within that 15 minutes.

• The Lakeview Substance Abuse SHU- Alternative Program will provide a six-month intensive alcohol and substance abuse treatment (“I-ASAT”) program for inmates at high risk for continued drug and alcohol abuse who have received individual or combined confinement sanctions of more than 120 days related to substance abuse-related offenses.

• All SHU inmates will be permitted to enroll in approved correspondence courses at their own expense.

• Service of suspended SHU confinement penalties may be imposed as a sanction, based on an individualized assessment, only for serious misbehavior or for committing the same or similar violation as that leading to the suspended sanction.

More Definitions of SHU

SHU means the Sheltered Housing Unit. The SHU will provide placement for inmates requiring increased medical supervision.

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SHU has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.