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      Sec. 54-92a. (Formerly Sec. 54-120). Commitment to custody of Commissioner of Correction. Commitment on findings of probable cause or on adjournments and punishment by imprisonment, including imprisonment for nonpayment of a fine, when not otherwise provided, shall be by commitment to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction in such institution or facility of the Department of Correction as he determines.

      (1949 Rev., S. 8826; 1961, P.A. 580, S. 18; 1967, P.A. 152, S. 45.)

      History: 1961 act deleted stipulation imprisonment be in jail of county where offense was committed and provided for commitment to jail administrator; 1967 act made commitment to correction commissioner in institution which he determines upon rather than in State Prison for sentences of at least one year with optional confinement in jail where sentence was for less than one year; Sec. 54-120 transferred to Sec. 54-92a in 1981.

      Annotations to former section 54-120:

      Cited. 99 C. 120; 115 C. 597; 152 C. 470; 153 C. 208. Where the maximum sentence for an offense is imprisonment for one year, it cannot be to the state prison. 115 C. 603. Before this section was adopted, most criminal statutes specified whether imprisonment should be in jail or state prison. 127 C. 720.

      Cited. 23 CS 296. Cited. 30 CS 71.