(1) Persons confined other than in a guardhouse, whether before, during, or after trial by a military court, shall be confined in a jail in the county where the offense was committed or a jail designated by the convening authority, the costs of such confinement to be paid out of funds appropriated to the office of the adjutant general.
No provost marshal, commander of a guard, or master-at-arms, and no warden, sheriff, keeper, or officer of a city or county jail or any other jail, penitentiary, or prison designated under subsection (1) of this section may refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to his or her charge when the committing person furnishes a statement signed by him or her of the offense charged against the prisoner.
Every commander of a guard, every master-at-arms, and every warden, sheriff, keeper, or officer of a city or county jail or of any other jail, penitentiary, or prison designated under subsection (1) of this section to whose charge a prisoner is committed shall, within twenty-four hours after that commitment or as soon as he or she is relieved from guard, report to the commanding officer of the prisoner the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him or her, and the name of the person who ordered or authorized the commitment.
Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1166, § 1, effective June 10. L. 2002: (2) and (3) amended, p. 605, § 65, effective May 24.