Any person subject to this article who, without proper authority, releases any prisoner committed to his or her charge, or who through neglect or design suffers any such prisoner to escape, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct, whether or not the prisoner was committed in strict compliance with law.
(Code 1981, §38-2-1096, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.)