If any escaped prisoner is retaken and recommitted, the expense of the pursuit and recommitment, as allowed by the Commissioner of Correction, shall be paid by the state and the time between the escape of any prisoner and his recommitment shall not be computed as part of his term of imprisonment.
(1949 Rev., S. 3013; 1967, P.A. 152, S. 36.)
History: 1967 act substituted “commissioner of correction” for “directors”.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 18 - Correctional Institutions and Department of Correction
Chapter 320 - Correctional Institutions
Section 18-1 to 18-6. - Directors and officers, generally.
Section 18-7. - Powers and duties of warden. Punishment and reward of inmates.
Section 18-7a. - Good conduct credit for prisoners.
Section 18-8. - Duties of chaplain.
Section 18-10a. - Employment of prisoners under death sentence.
Section 18-11 and 18-12. - Prisoners: Transfer to the Connecticut Reformatory; compensation.
Section 18-13. - Additional sentence in lieu of payment of fine.
Section 18-14a. - Correctional Institution, Enfield-Medium.
Section 18-15. - Raising of pheasants at the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Osborn.
Section 18-17. - Temporary use of jail. Transfer.
Section 18-18. - Escaped prisoner.
Section 18-23. - Women prisoners. Certain statutes applicable.