Confinement in jail prohibited

  1. Law
  2. District of Columbia Code
  3. Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]
  4. Hospitalization of Persons with Mental Illness
  5. Miscellaneous Provisions
  6. Confinement in jail prohibited

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A person apprehended, detained, or hospitalized under any provision of this chapter may not be confined in jail or in a penal or correctional institution.

(Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 760, Pub. L. 89-183, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 21-585.

1973 Ed., § 21-585.

Section References

This section is referenced in § 21-589.


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