{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-602","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-602","heading":"Authorization to execute compact - Text","body":"The Governor of Oklahoma is hereby authorized and requested to\n\nexecute, on behalf of the State of Oklahoma, with any other state or\n\nstates legally joining therein a compact which shall be in form\n\nsubstantially as follows:\n\nThe contracting states solemnly agree that:\n\nArticle I\n\nThe party states, desiring by common action to fully utilize and\n\nimprove their institutional facilities and provide adequate programs\n\nfor the confinement, treatment and rehabilitation of various types\n\nof offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party\n\nstates to provide such facilities and programs on a basis of\n\ncooperation with one another, and with the federal government,\n\nthereby serving the best interest of such offenders and of society\n\nand effecting economies in capital expenditures and operational\n\ncosts. The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual\n\ndevelopment and execution of such programs of cooperation for the\n\nconfinement, treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with the most\n\neconomical use of human and material resources.\n\nArticle II\n\nAs used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires\n\notherwise:\n\n1. \"State\" means a state of the United States, the United\n\nStates of America, a territory or possession of the United States,\n\nthe District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;\n\n2. \"Sending state\" means a state party to this compact in which\n\nconviction or court commitment was had;\n\n3. \"Receiving state\" means a state party to this compact to\n\nwhich an inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which\n\nconviction or court commitment was had;\n\n4. \"Inmate\" means a male or female offender who is committed,\n\nunder sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional\n\ninstitution; and\n\n5. \"Institution\" means any penal or correctional facility\n\nincluding, but not limited to, a facility for the mentally ill or\n\nmentally defective, in which inmates may lawfully be confined.\n\nArticle III\n\nA. Each party state may make one or more contracts with any one\n\nor more of the other party states, or with the federal government,\n\nfor the confinement of inmates on behalf of a sending state in\n\ninstitutions situated within receiving states. Any such contract\n\nshall provide for:\n\n1. Its duration;\n\n2. Payments to be made to the receiving state or to the federal\n\ngovernment, by the sending state for inmate maintenance,\n\nextraordinary medical and dental expenses, and any participation in\n\nor receipt by inmates of rehabilitative or correctional services,\n\nfacilities, programs or treatment not reasonably included as part of\n\nnormal maintenance;\n\n3. Participation in programs of inmate employment, if any, the\n\ndisposition or crediting of any payments received by inmates on\n\naccount thereof, and the crediting of proceeds from or disposal of\n\nany products resulting therefrom;\n\n4. Delivery and retaking of inmates; and\n\n5. Such other matters as may be necessary and appropriate to\n\nfix the obligations, responsibilities and rights of the sending and\n\nreceiving states.\n\nB. The terms and provisions of this compact shall be a part of\n\nany contract entered into by the authority of or pursuant thereto\n\nand nothing in any such contract shall be inconsistent therewith.\n\nArticle IV\n\nA. Whenever the duly constituted authorities in a state party\n\nto this compact, and which has entered into a contract pursuant to\n\nsubsection C of this section shall decide that confinement in, or\n\ntransfer of an inmate to, an institution within the territory of\n\nanother party state is necessary or desirable in order to provide\n\nadequate quarters and care or an appropriate program of\n\nrehabilitation or treatment, said officials may direct that the\n\nconfinement be within an institution within the territory of said\n\nother party state, the receiving state to act in that regard solely\n\nas agent for the sending state.\n\nB. The appropriate officials of any state party to this compact\ns necessary or desirable in order to provide\n\nadequate quarters and care or an appropriate program of\n\nrehabilitation or treatment, said officials may direct that the\n\nconfinement be within an institution within the territory of said\n\nother party state, the receiving state to act in that regard solely\n\nas agent for the sending state.\n\nB. The appropriate officials of any state party to this compact\n\nshall have access, at all reasonable times, to any institution in\n\nwhich it has a contractual right to confine inmates for the purpose\n\nof inspecting the facilities thereof and visiting such of its\n\ninmates as may be confined in the institution.\n\nC. Inmates confined in an institution pursuant to the terms of\n\nthis compact shall at all times be subject to the jurisdiction of\n\nthe sending state and may at any time be removed therefrom for\n\ntransfer to a prison or other institution within the sending state,\n\nfor transfer to another institution in which the sending state may\n\nhave a contractual or other right to confine inmates, for release on\n\nprobation or parole, for discharge, or for any other purpose\n\npermitted by the laws of the sending state, provided that the\n\nsending state shall continue to be obligated to such payments as may\n\nbe required pursuant to the terms of any contract entered into under\n\nthe terms of Article III, subsection A.\n\nD. Each receiving state shall provide regular reports to each\n\nsending state on the inmates of that sending state in institutions\n\npursuant to this compact including a conduct record of each inmate\n\nand certify said record to the official designated by the sending\n\nstate, in order that each inmate may have official review of his or\n\nher record in determining and altering the disposition of said\n\ninmate in accordance with the law which may obtain in the sending\n\nstate and in order that the same may be a source of information for\n\nthe sending state.\n\nE. All inmates who may be confined in an institution pursuant\n\nto the provisions of this compact shall be treated in a reasonable\n\nand humane manner and shall be treated equally with such similar\n\ninmates of the receiving state as may be confined in the same\n\ninstitution. The fact of confinement in a receiving state shall not\n\ndeprive any inmate so confined of any legal rights which said inmate\n\nwould have had if confined in an appropriate institution of the\n\nsending state.\n\nF. Any hearing or hearings to which an inmate confined pursuant\n\nto this compact may be entitled by the laws of the sending state may\n\nbe had before the appropriate authorities of the sending state, or\n\nof the receiving state if authorized by the sending state. The\n\nreceiving state shall provide adequate facilities for such hearings\n\nas may be conducted by the appropriate officials of a sending state.\n\nIn the event such hearing or hearings are had before officials of\n\nthe receiving state, the governing law shall be that of the sending\n\nstate and a record of the hearing or hearings as prescribed by the\n\nsending state shall be made. Said record, together with any\n\nrecommendations of the hearing officials, shall be transmitted\n\nforthwith to the official or officials before whom the hearing would\n\nhave been had if it had taken place in the sending state. In any\n\nand all proceedings had pursuant to the provisions of this\n\nsubsection, the officials of the receiving state shall act solely as\n\nagents of the sending state and no final determination shall be made\n\nin any matter except by the appropriate officials of the sending\n\nstate.\n\nG. Any inmate confined pursuant to this compact shall be\n\nreleased within the territory of the sending state, unless the\n\ninmate and the sending and receiving states shall agree upon release\n\nin some other place. The sending state shall bear the cost of such\n\nreturn to its territory.\nthe appropriate officials of the sending\n\nstate.\n\nG. Any inmate confined pursuant to this compact shall be\n\nreleased within the territory of the sending state, unless the\n\ninmate and the sending and receiving states shall agree upon release\n\nin some other place. The sending state shall bear the cost of such\n\nreturn to its territory.\n\nH. Any inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact\n\nshall have any and all rights to participate in and derive any\n\nbenefits or incur or be relieved of any obligations or have such\n\nobligations modified or his status changed on account of any action\n\nor proceeding in which he could have participated if confined in any\n\nappropriate institution of the sending state located within such\n\nstate.\n\nI. The parents, guardian, trustee or other person or persons\n\nentitled under the laws of the sending state to act for, advise or\n\notherwise function with respect to any inmate shall not be deprived\n\nof or restricted in his exercise of any power in respect of any\n\ninmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact.\n\nArticle V\n\nA. Any decision of the sending state in respect to any matter\n\nover which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall be\n\nconclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state, but\n\nif at the time the sending state seeks to remove an inmate from an\n\ninstitution in the receiving state there is pending against the\n\ninmate within such state any criminal charge or if the inmate is\n\nformally accused of having committed within such state a criminal\n\noffense, the inmate shall not be returned without the consent of the\n\nreceiving state until discharge from prosecution or other form of\n\nproceeding, imprisonment or detention for such offense. The duly\n\naccredited officers of the sending state shall be permitted to\n\ntransport inmates pursuant to this compact through any and all\n\nstates party to this compact without interference.\n\nB. An inmate who escapes from an institution in which he is\n\nconfined pursuant to this compact shall be deemed a fugitive from\n\nthe sending state and from the state in which the institution is\n\nsituated. In the case of an escape to a jurisdiction other than the\n\nsending or receiving state, the responsibility for institution of\n\nextradition or rendition proceedings shall be that of the sending\n\nstate, but nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent or\n\naffect the activities of officers and agencies of any jurisdiction\n\ndirected toward the apprehension and return of an escapee.\n\nArticle VI\n\nAny state party to this compact may accept federal aid for use\n\nin connection with any institution or program, the use of which is\n\nor may be affected by this compact or any contract pursuant hereto;\n\nand any inmate in a receiving state pursuant to this compact may\n\nparticipate in any such federally aided program or activity for\n\nwhich the sending and receiving states have made contractual\n\nprovision, provided that if such program or activity is not part of\n\nthe customary correctional regimen, the express consent of the\n\nappropriate official of the sending state shall be required\n\ntherefor.\n\nArticle VII\n\nThis compact shall enter into force and become effective and\n\nbinding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law\n\nby any two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force\n\nand become effective and binding as to any other of said states upon\n\nsimilar action by such state.\n\nArticle VIII\n\nThis compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a\n\nparty state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same\n\nand providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal\n\nfrom the compact to the appropriate official of all other party\n\nstates. An actual withdrawal shall not take effect until one (1)\n\nyear after the notice provided in said statute has been sent. Such\nhis compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a\n\nparty state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same\n\nand providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal\n\nfrom the compact to the appropriate official of all other party\n\nstates. An actual withdrawal shall not take effect until one (1)\n\nyear after the notice provided in said statute has been sent. Such\n\nwithdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its\n\nobligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of\n\nwithdrawal. Before effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing\n\nstate shall remove to its territory, at its own expense, such\n\ninmates as it may have confined pursuant to the provisions of this\n\ncompact.\n\nArticle IX\n\nNothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate\n\nor impair any agreement or other arrangement which a party state may\n\nhave with a nonparty state for the confinement, rehabilitation or\n\ntreatment of inmates nor to repeal any other laws of a party state\n\nauthorizing the making of cooperative institutional arrangements.\n\nArticle X\n\nThe provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and\n\nshall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of\n\nthis compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any\n\nparticipating state or of the United States or the applicability\n\nthereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held\n\ninvalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the\n\napplicability thereof to any government, agency, person or\n\ncircumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall\n\nbe held contrary to the constitution of any state participating\n\ntherein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the\n\nremaining states and in full force and effect as to the state\n\naffected as to all severable matters.","path":["OK Code","Title 57"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os57.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"9ab7448174b7e41e7b5675c8ebf1833b4b25594d2e4d85ac86474d840fd63606","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-601","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-61"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}