; and (ii) recorded at the request of any party. (B) The term status offense means an offense which prohibits conduct only for youths and not for adults, based on their age, including truancy, running away, breach of curfew, and age-based alcohol or drug offenses. (i) Ban on the use of solitary confinement (1) In general The requirements under this subsection relating to the restrictions on the use of temporary separation are, at a minimum, that— (A) temporary separation of a youth from the general population in a detention facility is not used for any purpose other than as a temporary response to behavior of the individual that poses a serious and immediate risk of physical harm to that individual or to others; (B) a good faith effort to employ less restrictive techniques, including de-escalation and intervention by facility employees, mental health professionals, and other youths must occur before the use of temporary separation; (C) before or immediately after a youth is placed in temporary separation, an employee of the detention facility provides the individual with an explanation of the reasons for the separation and under what circumstances it will end; (D) the duration for which a youth is placed in temporary separation does not exceed 3 hours, and consecutive periods of temporary separation for the same episode of behavior are prohibited; (E) a youth is released from temporary separation as soon as he or she no longer poses a risk of serious and immediate physical harm; (F) in the case of a youth who continues to pose a risk of serious and immediate physical harm after being in temporary separation for 3 hours, prior to, or upon the conclusion of such 3-hour period, the facility initiates a transfer to another facility that can provide necessary services without the use of temporary separation or refers the individual to a mental health facility that can provide necessary services, in which case the individual may remain in temporary separation pending such transfer