Md. Code, Correctional Services § 8-603
This is the official text of Md. Code, Correctional Services § 8-603, part of Maryland’s Code, Correctional Services — governs prisons and the state correctional system.
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§8–603.
Official statutory text
(a) As used in this Compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) “Incarcerated individual” means a male or female offender who is committed to, under sentence to, or confined in a penal or correctional institution.
(c) “Institution” means any penal or correctional facility, including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which incarcerated individuals may lawfully be confined.
(d) “Receiving state” means a state party to this Compact to which an incarcerated individual is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had.
(e) “Sending state” means a state party to this Compact in which conviction or court commitment was had.
(f) “State” means a state of the United States, the United States of America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) “Incarcerated individual” means a male or female offender who is committed to, under sentence to, or confined in a penal or correctional institution.
(c) “Institution” means any penal or correctional facility, including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which incarcerated individuals may lawfully be confined.
(d) “Receiving state” means a state party to this Compact to which an incarcerated individual is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had.
(e) “Sending state” means a state party to this Compact in which conviction or court commitment was had.
(f) “State” means a state of the United States, the United States of America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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