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S.C. Code Ann. § 17-11-40: Escape of prisoner in temporary custody.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURES
- CHAPTER 11 Interstate Agreement on Detainers
- ARTICLE IX This agreement shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate its purposes. The provisions of this agreement shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this agreement is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this agreement and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this agreement shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state party hereto, the agreement shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.
Any prisoner released to temporary custody under the provisions of the Agreement on Detainers from a place of imprisonment in South Carolina who shall escape or attempt to escape from such temporary custody, whether within or without the borders of this State, shall be dealt with in the same manner as if the escape or attempt to escape were from the original place of imprisonment.
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