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LR 366
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §2162, as amended by PL 1975, c. 771, §160, is
further amended to read:

 
§2162. Commutation to jail

 
When a person is sentenced to confinement in the State Prison
and committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections,
the Governor may, if he deems the Governor considers it
consistent with the public interest and the welfare of the
convict prisoner, commute said that prisoner's sentence to
imprisonment in any county jail, there to be supported at the
charge of the State at an expense not exceeding the price paid
for the support of other prisoners in said that county jail.

 
Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §757-B is enacted to read:

 
§757-B.__Trafficking of alcoholic beverages in adult correctional

 
facilities

 
1.__A person is guilty of trafficking of an alcoholic beverage
in an adult correctional facility if:

 
A.__That person intentionally conveys or attempts to convey
an alcoholic beverage to a person confined in an adult
correctional facility; or

 
B.__That person is confined in an adult correctional
facility and the person intentionally makes, obtains or
possesses an alcoholic beverage.

 
2.__As used in this section, "adult correctional facility"
means a county jail or correctional facility other than a
juvenile facility under the control of the Department of
Corrections.

 
3.__Trafficking of an alcoholic beverage in an adult
correctional facility is a Class E crime.

 
Sec. 3. 17-A MRSA §760 is enacted to read:

 
§760.__Failure to report sexual contact with or sexual assault of

 
person in custody

 
1.__A member of the staff of a hospital, prison or other
institution who knows that a person detained in that institution
is the victim of a crime under section 253, subsection 2,
paragraph E or section 255-A, subsection 1, paragraph I or J but
does not report that crime to an appropriate criminal justice


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