§ 28-3.1-110 — Confinement

Colorado § 28-3.1-110

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 28: Military and
• Art.: Colorado Code of Military Justice

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(1) Persons confined other than in a guardhouse,
whether before, during, or after trial by a military court, shall be confined in a jail in
the county where the offense was committed or a jail designated by the convening
authority, the costs of such confinement to be paid out of funds appropriated to the
office of the adjutant general.

(2) No provost marshal, commander of a guard, or master-at-arms, and no
warden, sheriff, keeper, or officer of a city or county jail or any other jail,
penitentiary, or prison designated under subsection (1) of this section may 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.

(3) Every commander of a guard, every master-at-arms, and every warden,
sheriff, keeper, or officer of a city or county jail or of any other jail, penitentiary, or
prison designated under subsection (1) of this section to whose charge a prisoner is
committed shall, within twenty-four 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.

Legislative History

Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1166, � 1, effective June 10. L. 2002: (2) and (3) amended, p. 605, � 65, effective May 24.