Okla. Stat. tit. 44, § 44-811
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Place of confinement, reports and receiving of prisoners
Official statutory text
ARTICLE 11. Place of confinement, reports and receiving of
prisoners.
A. Persons confined before or during trial by court-martial
shall be confined in any place of confinement under the control of
any of the armed forces, in any county jail or in any penal or
correctional facility under the control of the Oklahoma Department
of Corrections.
B. No provost marshal, commander of a guard, master at arms,
warden, keeper, or officer of a place of confinement designated in
subsection A of this section shall refuse to receive or keep any
prisoner committed to his or her charge, when the committing person
furnishes a statement, signed by him or her, of the offense charged
against the prisoner.
C. Every commander of a guard, master at arms, warden, keeper,
or officer of a place of confinement designated in subsection A of
this section, to whose charge a prisoner is committed shall, within
twenty-four (24) hours after that commitment or as soon as he or she
is relieved from guard, report to the commanding officer of the
prisoner the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him
or her, and the name of the person who ordered or authorized the
commitment.
prisoners.
A. Persons confined before or during trial by court-martial
shall be confined in any place of confinement under the control of
any of the armed forces, in any county jail or in any penal or
correctional facility under the control of the Oklahoma Department
of Corrections.
B. No provost marshal, commander of a guard, master at arms,
warden, keeper, or officer of a place of confinement designated in
subsection A of this section shall refuse to receive or keep any
prisoner committed to his or her charge, when the committing person
furnishes a statement, signed by him or her, of the offense charged
against the prisoner.
C. Every commander of a guard, master at arms, warden, keeper,
or officer of a place of confinement designated in subsection A of
this section, to whose charge a prisoner is committed shall, within
twenty-four (24) hours after that commitment or as soon as he or she
is relieved from guard, report to the commanding officer of the
prisoner the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him
or her, and the name of the person who ordered or authorized the
commitment.
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