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| | HB0276 Enrolled | | LRB097 05132 RLC 45177 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning corrections.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The County Jail Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 14 as follows:
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| 6 | | (730 ILCS 125/14) (from Ch. 75, par. 114)
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| 7 | | Sec. 14.
At any time, in the opinion of the Warden, the |
| 8 | | lives or health
of the prisoners are endangered or the security |
| 9 | | of the penal institution is threatened, to such a degree as to |
| 10 | | render their removal
necessary, the Warden may cause an |
| 11 | | individual prisoner or a group of the prisoners to be removed |
| 12 | | to some suitable
place within the county, or to the jail of |
| 13 | | some convenient county, where
they may be confined until they |
| 14 | | can be safely returned to the place whence
they were removed. |
| 15 | | No prisoner charged with a felony shall be removed by
the |
| 16 | | warden to a Mental Health or Developmental Disabilities |
| 17 | | facility as
defined in the Mental Health and Developmental |
| 18 | | Disabilities Code, except as
specifically authorized by |
| 19 | | Article 104 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of
1963, or the |
| 20 | | Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Any place
to |
| 21 | | which the prisoners are so removed shall,
during their |
| 22 | | imprisonment there, be deemed, as to such prisoners, a prison
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| 23 | | of the county in which they were originally confined; but, they |