May 23, 2006, Introduced by Senator THOMAS and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1893 PA 118, entitled
"An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to state
prisons, to state houses of correction, and branches of state
prisons and reformatories, and the government and discipline
thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith,"
by amending section 61 (MCL 800.61), as amended by 2002 PA 89.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
61. (1) Whenever any convict shall escape If a prisoner
escapes from a prison state correctional facility, the warden
shall
take all proper measures for the apprehension of the convict
prisoner, and for that purpose he or she may the department of
corrections
shall offer a reward not exceeding
$50.00 of $500.00
for
the apprehension and delivery of that convict; but with the
consent
of his or her board the reward may be increased to a sum
not
exceeding $500.00 prisoner.
All suitable rewards and other
sums
of money, necessarily paid for advertising and apprehending
any
convict who may escape from prison an escaped prisoner, shall
be
audited by the state treasurer , and paid out of the state
treasury.
(2) If
any an escaped prisoner shall be retaken is
captured, the time between the escape and his or her recommittal
return to a state correctional facility shall not be computed as
part
of the term of imprisonment, but he or she and the prisoner
shall
remain in the prison state
correctional facility a
sufficient length of time after the term of his or her sentence
would have expired, if he or she had not escaped, to equal the
period
of time he or she may have been was absent by reason of
the escape.