Introduction This lesson covers the purpose of confinement, categories of prisoners, and the initial requirements for confinement. This lesson gives you the basic requirements of all preliminary confinement processes.
Learning
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to
• List two purposes of confinement.
• Define confinement.
• List the four types of confinement.
• State when can pre-trial confinement be imposed.
• State when an individual may not be placed in confinement.
• State what two conditions require acceptance of a prisoner into confinement.
• List two reasons that do not justify confinement.
• List the three legal status categories for prisoners.
• List five special categories of prisoners.
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• State the rate of earning for good conduct time while confined on bread and water/diminished rations.
• State the administrative requirements for the confinement of an officer.
Study
Assignment
This lesson requires you to read SECNAVINST 1640.9B, Chapter 7, Section 1. When you finish the reading assignment, complete the lesson 1 exercise that follows on the next page.
MCI Course 581E 7-5 Study Unit 7, Lesson 2
Lesson 1 Exercise
Directions Complete exercise items 1 through 11 by performing the actions required.
Check your answers against those listed at the end of the lesson.
Item 1 List two purposes of confinement.
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Item 2 Define confinement.
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Item 3 List the four types of confinement.
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Item 4 State when can pre-trial confinement be imposed.
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Item 5 State when an individual may not be placed in confinement.
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Item 6 State what two conditions require acceptance of a prisoner into confinement.
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Item 7 List two reasons that do not justify confinement.
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Item 8 List the three legal status categories for prisoners.
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ContinuedItem 9 List five special categories of prisoners.
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Item 10 State the rate for earning of good conduct time while confined on bread and water/diminished rations.
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Item 11 State the administrative requirements for the confinement of an officer.
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MCI Course 581E 7-8 Study Unit 7, Lesson 2
Lesson 1 Exercise Solutions
Answers The table below lists the answers to the exercise items. If you have any questions about these items, refer to the paragraph referenced in the SECNAVINST 1640.9B..
Item Answer Reference
1 a. Punishment, and as a deterrent to other individuals.
b. Expresses the retribution demanded by the society the individual offended, and removes offenders from society for a specified period.
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2 Confinement is the physical restraint of a person. 7102.1 3 a. Pre-trial
b. Detention c. Post-trial
d. Bread and water/diminished rations
7102.1
4 Before trial, when deemed necessary to ensure the presence of the accused for trial or upon a showing, there exists a danger that, unless confinement is imposed, the accused is likely to engage in serious misconduct.
7102.2a
5 A person shall not be placed in confinement based solely on pending administrative discharge
proceedings.
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6 a. When the committing officer furnishes a statement signed by him or her, of the offense charged against the prisoner
b. When appropriate medical personnel have certified in writing on the confinement order that the person is physically fit for confinement.
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7 a. Safekeeping b. Protective custody
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8 a. Detainee. A detainee is a person subject to the UCMJ, who has been legally ordered into confinement and who is accused of violating the UCMJ, and is awaiting trial or rehearing. This includes those persons pending vacation of a suspended sentence, which includes confinement and/or a punitive discharge. Detained personnel in a brig shall be referred to as detainees.
b. Transient prisoners. A person held in confinement pending disposition instructions from another command, awaiting transportation to a designated confinement facility, or return to parent unit.
c. Prisoners. Persons tried by courts-martial and ordered into confinement are prisoners whether or not the sentence has been ordered into execution.
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9 a. Bread and water or diminished rations for prisoners
b. Officer prisoners
c. Female detainees/prisoners d. Pregnant prisoners
e. Other than U.S. military facilities f. Civilian prisoners subject to the UCMJ
g. Confinement under Status of Forces Agreement h. Foreign military personnel
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10 No GCT is allowed for B&W/DIMRATS punishment.
Confinement on B&W/DIMRATS shall be treated as the equivalent of confinement for two days, if
adjudged in the same sentence with confinement.
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11 Officer prisoners include midshipmen, cadets, and officer candidates. A report of all officer
confinements shall be submitted immediately to the Commandant of the Marine Corps (POS-40). In all cases, a telephone report shall be paralleled by message. In the case of pre-trial confinement of officers, only the fact an officer of a certain pay grade (e.g., O-3, O-4) has been confined, and a summary of the offenses alleged shall be reported by message. A telephone report will advise name, social security number, etc.
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Lesson
Summary
In this lesson, you learned the confinement regulations. If you have correctly answered the above questions, you are ready for the next lesson. If not, read the text again and attempt to better your responses. The next lesson will cover confinement procedures.
MCI Course 581E 7-11 Study Unit 7, Lesson 2