Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-602

The Governor of Oklahoma is hereby authorized and requested to

execute, on behalf of the State of Oklahoma, with any other state or

states legally joining therein a compact which shall be in form

substantially as follows:

The contracting states solemnly agree that:

Article I

The party states, desiring by common action to fully utilize and

improve their institutional facilities and provide adequate programs

for the confinement, treatment and rehabilitation of various types

of offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party

states to provide such facilities and programs on a basis of

cooperation with one another, and with the federal government,

thereby serving the best interest of such offenders and of society

and effecting economies in capital expenditures and operational

costs. The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual

development and execution of such programs of cooperation for the

confinement, treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with the most

economical use of human and material resources.

Article II

As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires

otherwise:

1. "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;

2. "Sending state" means a state party to this compact in which

conviction or court commitment was had;

3. "Receiving state" means a state party to this compact to

which an inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which

conviction or court commitment was had;

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4. "Inmate" means a male or female offender who is committed,

under sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional

institution; and

5. "Institution" means any penal or correctional facility

including, but not limited to, a facility for the mentally ill or

mentally defective, in which inmates may lawfully be confined.

Article III

A. Each party state may make one or more contracts with any one

or more of the other party states, or with the federal government,

for the confinement of inmates on behalf of a sending state in

institutions situated within receiving states. Any such contract

shall provide for:

1. Its duration;

2. Payments to be made to the receiving state or to the federal

government, by the sending state for inmate maintenance,

extraordinary medical and dental expenses, and any participation in

or receipt by inmates of rehabilitative or correctional services,

facilities, programs or treatment not reasonably included as part of

normal maintenance;

3. Participation in programs of inmate employment, if any, the

disposition or crediting of any payments received by inmates on

account thereof, and the crediting of proceeds from or disposal of

any products resulting therefrom;

4. Delivery and retaking of inmates; and

5. Such other matters as may be necessary and appropriate to

fix the obligations, responsibilities and rights of the sending and

receiving states.

B. The terms and provisions of this compact shall be a part of

any contract entered into by the authority of or pursuant thereto

and nothing in any such contract shall be inconsistent therewith.

Article IV

A. Whenever the duly constituted authorities in a state party

to this compact, and which has entered into a contract pursuant to

subsection C of this section shall decide that confinement in, or

transfer of an inmate to, an institution within the territory of

another party state is necessary or desirable in order to provide

adequate quarters and care or an appropriate program of

rehabilitation or treatment, said officials may direct that the

confinement be within an institution within the territory of said

other party state, the receiving state to act in that regard solely

as agent for the sending state.

B. The appropriate officials of any state party to this compact
s necessary or desirable in order to provide

adequate quarters and care or an appropriate program of

rehabilitation or treatment, said officials may direct that the

confinement be within an institution within the territory of said

other party state, the receiving state to act in that regard solely

as agent for the sending state.

B. The appropriate officials of any state party to this compact

shall have access, at all reasonable times, to any institution in

which it has a contractual right to confine inmates for the purpose

of inspecting the facilities thereof and visiting such of its

inmates as may be confined in the institution.

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C. Inmates confined in an institution pursuant to the terms of

this compact shall at all times be subject to the jurisdiction of

the sending state and may at any time be removed therefrom for

transfer to a prison or other institution within the sending state,

for transfer to another institution in which the sending state may

have a contractual or other right to confine inmates, for release on

probation or parole, for discharge, or for any other purpose

permitted by the laws of the sending state, provided that the

sending state shall continue to be obligated to such payments as may

be required pursuant to the terms of any contract entered into under

the terms of Article III, subsection A.

D. Each receiving state shall provide regular reports to each

sending state on the inmates of that sending state in institutions

pursuant to this compact including a conduct record of each inmate

and certify said record to the official designated by the sending

state, in order that each inmate may have official review of his or

her record in determining and altering the disposition of said

inmate in accordance with the law which may obtain in the sending

state and in order that the same may be a source of information for

the sending state.

E. All inmates who may be confined in an institution pursuant

to the provisions of this compact shall be treated in a reasonable

and humane manner and shall be treated equally with such similar

inmates of the receiving state as may be confined in the same

institution. The fact of confinement in a receiving state shall not

deprive any inmate so confined of any legal rights which said inmate

would have had if confined in an appropriate institution of the

sending state.

F. Any hearing or hearings to which an inmate confined pursuant

to this compact may be entitled by the laws of the sending state may

be had before the appropriate authorities of the sending state, or

of the receiving state if authorized by the sending state. The

receiving state shall provide adequate facilities for such hearings

as may be conducted by the appropriate officials of a sending state.

In the event such hearing or hearings are had before officials of

the receiving state, the governing law shall be that of the sending

state and a record of the hearing or hearings as prescribed by the

sending state shall be made. Said record, together with any

recommendations of the hearing officials, shall be transmitted

forthwith to the official or officials before whom the hearing would

have been had if it had taken place in the sending state. In any

and all proceedings had pursuant to the provisions of this

subsection, the officials of the receiving state shall act solely as

agents of the sending state and no final determination shall be made

in any matter except by the appropriate officials of the sending

state.

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G. Any inmate confined pursuant to this compact shall be

released within the territory of the sending state, unless the

inmate and the sending and receiving states shall agree upon release

in some other place. The sending state shall bear the cost of such

return to its territory.
the appropriate officials of the sending

state.

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G. Any inmate confined pursuant to this compact shall be

released within the territory of the sending state, unless the

inmate and the sending and receiving states shall agree upon release

in some other place. The sending state shall bear the cost of such

return to its territory.

H. Any inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact

shall have any and all rights to participate in and derive any

benefits or incur or be relieved of any obligations or have such

obligations modified or his status changed on account of any action

or proceeding in which he could have participated if confined in any

appropriate institution of the sending state located within such

state.

I. The parents, guardian, trustee or other person or persons

entitled under the laws of the sending state to act for, advise or

otherwise function with respect to any inmate shall not be deprived

of or restricted in his exercise of any power in respect of any

inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact.

Article V

A. Any decision of the sending state in respect to any matter

over which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall be

conclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state, but

if at the time the sending state seeks to remove an inmate from an

institution in the receiving state there is pending against the

inmate within such state any criminal charge or if the inmate is

formally accused of having committed within such state a criminal

offense, the inmate shall not be returned without the consent of the

receiving state until discharge from prosecution or other form of

proceeding, imprisonment or detention for such offense. The duly

accredited officers of the sending state shall be permitted to

transport inmates pursuant to this compact through any and all

states party to this compact without interference.

B. An inmate who escapes from an institution in which he is

confined pursuant to this compact shall be deemed a fugitive from

the sending state and from the state in which the institution is

situated. In the case of an escape to a jurisdiction other than the

sending or receiving state, the responsibility for institution of

extradition or rendition proceedings shall be that of the sending

state, but nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent or

affect the activities of officers and agencies of any jurisdiction

directed toward the apprehension and return of an escapee.

Article VI

Any state party to this compact may accept federal aid for use

in connection with any institution or program, the use of which is

or may be affected by this compact or any contract pursuant hereto;

and any inmate in a receiving state pursuant to this compact may

participate in any such federally aided program or activity for

which the sending and receiving states have made contractual

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provision, provided that if such program or activity is not part of

the customary correctional regimen, the express consent of the

appropriate official of the sending state shall be required

therefor.

Article VII

This compact shall enter into force and become effective and

binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law

by any two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force

and become effective and binding as to any other of said states upon

similar action by such state.

Article VIII

This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a

party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same

and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal

from the compact to the appropriate official of all other party

states. An actual withdrawal shall not take effect until one (1)

year after the notice provided in said statute has been sent. Such
his compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a

party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same

and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal

from the compact to the appropriate official of all other party

states. An actual withdrawal shall not take effect until one (1)

year after the notice provided in said statute has been sent. Such

withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its

obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of

withdrawal. Before effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing

state shall remove to its territory, at its own expense, such

inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the provisions of this

compact.

Article IX

Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate

or impair any agreement or other arrangement which a party state may

have with a nonparty state for the confinement, rehabilitation or

treatment of inmates nor to repeal any other laws of a party state

authorizing the making of cooperative institutional arrangements.

Article X

The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and

shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of

this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any

participating state or of the United States or the applicability

thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held

invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the

applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or

circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall

be held contrary to the constitution of any state participating

therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the

remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state

affected as to all severable matters.