Purpose


Rulemaking is necessary to clarify rule language, remove references to inmate personal property, make the rule gender neutral, add death row to the list of statuses with restricted property under certain circumstances, allow for the possession of legal materials by an inmate transferred to an outside community hospital or by an inmate transferred for a court appearance, add earrings and tablet armbands to the obsolete property list, clarify the approved sources of certain approved property, remove MP3 players and MP3 player arm bands from the approved property list, add health care appliances as defined in rule to the approved property list; remove laundry soap from the approved property list, add tablets to the approved property list, revise Form DC6-220, and revise Form DC6-224.