KRS 439.430: Parole officer may arrest parolee or person subject to postincarceration

supervision, when -- Detention -- Report to commissioner -- Return of prisoner

to prison -- Prisoner for whose return a warrant has been issued to be deemed

a fugitive from justice -- Effect of violation of parole.

(1) Any parole officer having reason to believe that a parolee or a person on

postincarceration supervision pursuant to KRS 532.043 or 532.400 has violated the

terms of his or her release may arrest the parolee or offen der on postincarceration

supervision without a warrant or may deputize any other peace officer to do so by

giving him or her a written statement setting forth that the parolee or offender on

postincarceration supervision, in the judgment of the parole offi cer, has violated the

conditions of his or her release. The written statement delivered with the parolee or

offender on postincarceration supervision by the arresting officer to the official in

charge of the station house, jail, workhouse, or other place o f detention, shall be

sufficient warrant for the detention of the parolee or offender on postincarceration

supervision. The parole officer who arrests or causes the arrest of the prisoner shall

notify the commissioner or his or her designee at once of the arrest and detention of

the parolee or offender on postincarceration supervision, and shall submit in writing

a report showing in what manner there has been a violation of the conditions of

release. Thereupon, if the commissioner or his or her designee bel ieves the parolee

or offender on postincarceration supervision should be returned to prison, the

commissioner or his or her designee at once shall submit his or her

recommendations to the board, and, if the board approves, it shall issue a warrant

upon which the releasee shall be returned to prison; otherwise the prisoner shall be

released upon the order of the commissioner or his or her designee.

(2) A written statement, approved by the commissioner or his or her designee, by a

parole officer, and filed wi th the board setting forth that the parolee or offender on

postincarceration supervision in the judgment of the officer has violated the

condition of his or her release, shall be sufficient cause for the board, in its

discretion, to issue a warrant for the arrest of the parolee or offender on

postincarceration supervision or for his or her return to prison.

(3) A prisoner for whose return a warrant has been issued by the board, shall be deemed

a fugitive from justice or to have fled from justice. If it shal l appear he or she has

violated the provisions of his or her release, the time from the issuing of the warrant

to the date of his or her arrest shall not be counted as any part of the time to be

served in determining his or her final discharge eligibility date from parole if the

board in its discretion so orders.

(4) The Parole Board may at its discretion issue a warrant for any parolee or offender

on postincarceration supervision when in its judgment the condition of release has

been violated.