KRS 440.060: Capture and return of fugitive from house of reform.

(1) The officer of a house of reform and any peace officer or citizen may arrest, without

warrant, and return to the institution, any child who escapes from a house of reform

or home in which an inmate has been placed on parole.

(2) A peace officer shall arre st any child known by him to have escaped from a house

of reform, and return him to the institution.