New Jersey Statutes 30:4-85. Transfers between correctional institutions; transfer to State prison; authority of commissioner; contracts with county institutions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 30:4-85
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Human Services. See New Jersey Statutes 30:1-1
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- population: when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
No inmate of the State Home for Boys or the State Home for Girls shall be transferred to the State Prison.
Any inmate of the State Home for Boys of the age of 15 years may be transferred from such home to the reformatory at Annandale or, if over the age of 16 years, to the reformatory at Bordentown, and any inmate of the State Home for Girls, over the age of 16 years, may be transferred from such home to the women’s reformatory at Clinton.
Any inmate of a correctional institution for males, as classified in section 30:1-7 of this Title, of the age of 18 years, may be transferred to the State Prison if it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the commissioner after recommendation by a special classification review board appointed by the State board from among members of the department central office staff, that such inmate cannot properly be confined in such institution and that his transfer will operate for the general benefit and welfare of the inmate population of the institution from which he is to be transferred.
The commissioner may also contract, under the direction of the State board and in behalf of any institution where an inmate to be transferred may be, with the various governing bodies of counties in this State for the amount to be paid for maintenance of inmates of correctional institutions to be maintained in such county institutions, after transfer thereto by order of the commissioner, for such amounts as may be approved by the State House Commission, and such payments shall be taken from and paid out of the appropriation made annually for the maintenance of such person or persons in the State institution from whence he is or shall be transferred, and the commissioner shall have power to make such transfer in such cases as in the case of other transfers provided for in this section. Such transfers shall be made in accordance with the formally adopted rules of the State board.
Persons transferred shall be subject to rules, regulations and discipline of the institution in which they are confined, except in so far as they conflict with the rules and regulations of the State board.
Amended by L.1948, c. 203, p. 1002, s. 1; L.1957, c. 93, p. 180, s. 1.