Maine Statutes

§ 34-B §9009 — Incarceration in penal or correctional institution--Article IX

Maine § 34-B §9009
JurisdictionMaine
Title 34-BBEHAVIORAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES
Ch. 9INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH

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Bluebook
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 34-B, § 34-B §9009 (2026).

Text

1.Application. No provision of this compact except Article V shall apply to any person institutionalized while under sentence in a penal or correctional institution or while subject to trial on a criminal charge, or whose institutionalization is due to the commission of an offense for which, in the absence of mental illness or mental deficiency, said person would be subject to incarceration in a penal or correctional institution.
2.Policy not to jail. To every extent possible, it shall be the policy of states party to this compact that no patient shall be placed or detained in any prison, jail or lockup, but such patient shall, with all expedition, be taken to a suitable institutional facility for mental illness or mental deficiency.

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Legislative History

PL 1983, c. 459, §7 (NEW).

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