---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 552.41"
title: "28"
number: "552.41"
heading: "Program procedures."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/552.41"
---

# §552.41. Program procedures.

- (a) **Program Coordinator.** Each institution must have a Program Coordinator for the institution's suicide prevention program.
- (b) **Training.** The Program Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that appropriate training is available to staff and to inmates selected as inmate observers.
- (c) **Identification of at risk inmates.**
  - (1) **Medical staff are to screen a newly admitted inmate for signs that the inmate is at risk for suicide.** Ordinarily, this screening is to take place within twenty-four hours of the inmate's admission to the institution.
  - (2) Staff (whether medical or non-medical) may make an identification at any time based upon the inmate's observed behavior.
- (d) **Referral.** Staff who identify an inmate to be at risk for suicide will have the inmate placed on suicide watch.
- (e) **Assessment.** A psychologist will clinically assess each inmate placed on suicide watch.
- (f) **Intervention.** Upon completion of the clinical assessment, the Program Coordinator or designee will determine the appropriate intervention that best meets the needs of the inmate.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 72 FR 12086, Mar. 15, 2007, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3624, 4001, 4042, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984, as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 33941, May 20, 1980, unless otherwise noted.