30:7B-9.Ā  Applicability to persons institutionalized while under sentence orĀ  subject to trial;Ā  detention of patients in prisons or jails
ARTICLE IX

(a) No provision of this compact except Article V shall apply to any personĀ  institutionalized while under sentence in a penal or correctional institutionĀ  or while subject to trial on a criminal charge, or whose institutionalizationĀ  is due to the commission of an offense for which, in the absence of mentalĀ  illness or mental deficiency, said person would be subject to incarceration inĀ  a penal or correctional institution.

(b) To every extent possible, it shall be the policy of States party to thisĀ  compact that no patient shall be placed or detained in any prison, jail orĀ  lockup, but such patient shall, with all expedition, be taken to a suitableĀ  institutional facility for mental illness or mental deficiency.

L.1956, c. 178, p. 683, art. IX.