Vermont § 9009 - Criminal patients—Article IX

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§ 9009. Criminal patients—Article IX

  • (a) No provision of this compact except Article V shall apply to any person institutionalized
    while under sentence in a penal or correctional institution or while subject to trial
    on a criminal charge, or whose institutionalization is due to the commission of an
    offense for which, in the absence of mental illness or developmental disability, the
    person would be subject to incarceration in a penal or correctional institution. (b) To every extent possible, it shall be the policy of states party to this compact that
    no patient shall be placed or detained in any prison, jail, or lockup, but the patient
    shall, with all expedition, be taken to a suitable institutional facility for mental
    illness or developmental disability. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 48.)

Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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