(i) no incarcerated individual known by security, health or mental health personnel to be pregnant, within eight weeks of delivery or pregnancy outcome, having a mental or physical disability, or having a serious mental illness shall be confined in special housing;

(ii) an incarcerated individual shall only be sanctioned to confinement in special housing for behavior that violates rules of inmate conduct and poses an unreasonable risk to the health, safety or security of staff, incarcerated individuals, or facility security by: causing or attempting to cause injury or death to another person or making a credible threat of such injury or death; engaging in a sexual act, or compelling or attempting to compel another person to engage in a sexual act; coercing another, by force or threat of force, to violate any rule; leading, organizing, inciting, or attempting to cause a riot, insurrection, strike, or other serious disturbance that may result in physical harm to another person, significant property damage or significant interference with facility operations; procuring, possessing, brandishing or using a weapon that poses a threat to the health, safety, or security of staff, incarcerated individuals, or security of the facility; procuring, possessing, using or distributing dangerous contraband that poses a threat to the health, safety, or security of staff, incarcerated individuals, or security of the facility; escaping, attempting to escape or facilitating an escape from a facility, or absconding or attempting to abscond outside of a facility, or; engaging in conduct constituting a felony under the Penal Law; and

(iii) no incarcerated individual shall be sanctioned to confinement in special housing for longer than necessary and; effective on and after April 1, 2021, for no more than 90 days; effective on and after October 1, 2021, for no more than 60 days and; effective on and after April 1, 2022, for no more than 30 days;