Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-443

of Corrections - Penalty - Juvenile or youthful offender.

A. Any person having been imprisoned in a county or city jail

awaiting charges on a felony offense or prisoner awaiting trial or

having been sentenced on a felony charge to the custody of the

Department of Corrections or any other prisoner having been lawfully

detained who escapes from a county or city jail, either while

actually confined therein, while permitted to be at large as a

trusty, or while awaiting transportation to a Department of

Corrections facility for execution of sentence, shall be guilty of a

Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for

in subsections B through F of Section 20N of this title.

B. Any person who is an inmate in the custody of the Department

of Corrections who escapes from said custody, either while actually

confined in a correctional facility, while assigned to an

alternative to incarceration authorized by law, while assigned to

the Preparole Conditional Supervision Program as authorized by

Section 365 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes or while permitted

to be at large as a trusty, shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony

offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B

through F of Section 20N of this title.

C. For the purposes of this section, an inmate assigned to an

alternative to incarceration authorized by law or to the Preparole

Conditional Supervision Program shall be considered to have escaped

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if the inmate cannot be located within a twenty-four hour period or

if he or she fails to report to a correctional facility or

institution, as directed. This includes any person escaping by

absconding from an electronic monitoring device or absconding after

removing an electronic monitoring device from their body.

D. For the purposes of this section, if the individual who

escapes has felony convictions for offenses other than the offense

for which the person was serving imprisonment at the time of the

escape, those previous felony convictions may be used for

enhancement of punishment pursuant to the provisions of Section 434

of this title. The fact that any such convictions may have been

used to enhance punishment in the sentence for the offense for which

the person was imprisoned at the time of the escape shall not

prevent such convictions from being used to enhance punishment for

the escape.

E. Any juvenile or youthful offender lawfully placed in a

juvenile detention facility or secure juvenile facility, other than

a community intervention center, who escapes from the facility while

actually confined therein, who escapes while escorted by a

transportation officer, or who escapes while permitted to be on an

authorized pass or work program outside the facility shall be guilty

of a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided

for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of this title. For

purposes of this subsection:

1. A juvenile or youthful offender permitted to be on an

authorized pass or work program shall be considered to have escaped

if the juvenile or youthful offender cannot be located within a

twenty-four-hour period or if the juvenile or youthful offender

fails to report to the facility at the specified time, and shall

include any juvenile or youthful offender escaping by absconding

from an electronic monitoring device or absconding after removing an

electronic monitoring device from the body of the juvenile or

youthful offender; and

2. “Escape” means a juvenile or youthful offender in lawful

custody who has absented himself or herself without official

permission from a facility or secure placement, during transport to

or from such facility, or failure to return from a pass issued by a

facility.