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Full Text of HB5453  99th General Assembly

HB5453 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB5453

 

Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
730 ILCS 155/1  from Ch. 75, par. 61

    Amends the Prisoner Interchange Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the authority of the warden.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Prisoner Interchange Act is amended by
5changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (730 ILCS 155/1)  (from Ch. 75, par. 61)
7    Sec. 1. The The warden or superintendent of any penal
8institution in any county, township, city, village or
9incorporated town to which prisoners have been committed for
10imprisonment for conviction of misdemeanors or for nonpayment
11of fines for violation of state law, ordinance, resolution,
12rule or regulation of a township, city, village or incorporated
13town may recommit such prisoners to confinement in any other
14penal institution in the county in which, by contract or
15otherwise, such prisoners may be held, but only with the
16consent of the warden or superintendent of the other penal
17institution. In making such recommitment the warden or
18superintendent shall take into consideration the nature of the
19offense, the character of the offender, whether the offender
20should be held under maximum security conditions and any other
21condition pertinent to such decision. The warden or
22superintendent may recommit prisoners committed to his
23institution to be confined in another penal institution in

 

 

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1which he may hold prisoners when in his judgment, such
2recommitment will be beneficial to the welfare or
3rehabilitation of the prisoner or is desirable to relieve
4overcrowding in any such penal institution.
5    Appropriate records of such recommitments shall be kept by
6the wardens or superintendents of both penal institutions. Such
7recommitments shall not operate to lengthen or shorten the term
8of imprisonment of prisoners.
9(Source: Laws 1965, p. 472.)