31-482. Matters pertaining to agreement
A. Every person who has been imprisoned in a prison or institution in this state
and who escapes or attempts to escape while in the custody of an officer of this or
another state in another state pursuant to the agreement on detainers is deemed to have
violated section 13-2503 or 13-2504 and is punishable as provided therein.
B. It shall be lawful and mandatory upon the warden or other official in charge of
a penal or correctional institution in this state to give over the person of any inmate
thereof whenever so required by the operation of the agreement on detainer. Such
official shall inform such inmate of his rights provided in paragraph (a) of article IV
of the agreement on detainers.
C. The administrator, in accordance with the interstate probation and parole
compacts, shall administer the agreement as prescribed by section 31-481.
D. When, pursuant to the agreement on detainers, a person in actual confinement
under sentence of another jurisdiction is brought before an Arizona court and sentenced
by the judge to serve an Arizona sentence concurrently with the sentence of the other
jurisdiction, the board of executive clemency and members thereof may meet in such other
jurisdiction, or enter into cooperative arrangements with corresponding agencies in the
other jurisdiction, as necessary to carry out the term-fixing and parole functions.
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