Escape from the custody of the children, youth and families department consists of any person who has been adjudicated as a delinquent child and has been committed lawfully to the custody of a department juvenile justice facility or who is alleged to be a delinquent child and has been lawfully detained in a juvenile detention facility:

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A. escaping or attempting to escape from custody within the confines of a children, youth and families department juvenile justice facility; or

B. escaping or attempting to escape from another lawful place of custody or confinement that is not within the confines of a children, youth and families department juvenile justice facility. Any person who commits escape from the custody of a children, youth and families department juvenile justice facility is guilty of a misdemeanor.