Montana Code Annotated
Part 22. Detention Centers
7-32-2203. Who may be confined in a detention center

7-32-2203. Who may be confined in a detention center. Detention centers are used as follows:
(1) for the detention of persons committed in order to secure their attendance as witnesses in criminal cases;
(2) for the detention of persons charged with crime and committed for trial;
(3) for the confinement of persons committed for contempt or upon civil process or by other authority of law;
(4) for the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment therein upon conviction of a crime;
(5) for the confinement of persons sentenced to the state prison, as agreed upon by the state and the administrator in charge of the detention center.
History: En. Sec. 3022, Pen. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 9759, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 12468, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pen. C. Sec. 1597; re-en. Sec. 12468, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 193, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 16-2803(part); amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 461, L. 1989.

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