KRS 421.600: Definitions.

As used in KRS 421.610 to 421.690:

(1) "Penal institutions" includes a jail, prison, penitentiary, house of correction or other

place of penal detention;

(2) "State" includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any territory of the United States;

(3) "Witness" means a person who is confined in a penal institution in any state and

whose testimony is desired in another state in any criminal proceeding or

investigation by a grand jury or in any criminal action before a court.