New Jersey § 2a:67-6

§ 2a:67-6.

For preventing illegal imprisonment of citizens of this State in prisons out of this

State, no citizen of this State who is an inhabitant or resident thereof, shall be

sent as a prisoner to any place whatsoever out of this State, for any crime or offense

committed within this State, and every such imprisonment is hereby declared to be

illegal unless such transfer of such person to a place of confinement outside the

State is accomplished pursuant to the provisions of any interstate compact approved

by the Legislature for such purpose and to which the State is signatory. If any such citizen shall be so imprisoned, except as provided for herein by compact,

he may, for every such imprisonment, maintain, by virtue of this chapter, an action

at law in the Superior Court for the damages sustained thereby, against the person

by whom he shall be so committed, detained, imprisoned, sent prisoner or transported

contrary to the true intent and meaning of this chapter, and against any person who

shall frame, contrive, write, seal, sign, or countersign any warrant or writing for

such commitment, detainer, imprisonment or transportation, or who shall advise, aid

or assist in the same or any of them. In such action the plaintiff may recover penal as well as compensatory damages but

in any case the damages shall not be less than $1,500.00. Any person who shall knowingly frame, contrive, write, seal, sign or countersign any

warrant for such commitment, detainer, or transportation, or shall so commit, detain,

imprison or transport any person contrary to this chapter, or advise, aid or assist

therein, shall be fined or imprisoned at hard labor, or both, at the discretion of

the court before which the conviction shall be had and shall in addition thereto,

from thenceforth be disqualified from holding any office or trust or profit under

this State. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the sending of a citizen

of this State or person at any time resident therein, who has committed any treason,

felony or misdemeanor in another state of the United States or in any foreign country,

to such other state or foreign country having jurisdiction of such offense, for the

purpose of being tried therefor.