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205.18 – Absconding from a furlough program

* § 205.18 Absconding from a furlough program.

A person is guilty of absconding from a furlough program when, having
been released from confinement in an institution under the jurisdiction
of the commissioner of correction in a city having a population of one
million or more or of a county which elects to have this article apply
thereto to participate in a furlough program, he intentionally fails to
return to the institution of his confinement at or before the time
prescribed for his return.

Absconding from a furlough program is a class A misdemeanor.

* NB Expires September 1, 2017

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