KRS 441.048: Screening for mental health risk issues upon admittance to detention.

Every prisoner, upon admittance to detention, shall be screened for mental health risk

issues, including mental illness, suicide, intellectual disabilities, and acquired brain

injury, by the personnel of the facility in which facility the prisoner is detai ned. Facilities

have the discretion of using the telephonic behavioral health jail triage system created in

KRS 210.365. Where the triage system indicates levels of behavioral health risk, the

facility holding the prisoner may consider implementing the rec ommended protocols for

housing, supervision, and care delivery that match the level of risk.