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