CHAPTER 329

H.P. 943 - L.D. 1360

An Act To Improve the Management and Safety of State

Correctional Facilities

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