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TITLE XIII CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 221 Jails and Jailers
Section 221.044. Persons under seventeen may not be confined in adult jails, exceptions--commitment to juvenile detention facilities, when.
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Persons under seventeen may not be confined in adult jails, exceptions--commitment to juvenile detention facilities, when.
221.044. No person under the age of seventeen years, except those transferred to the court of general jurisdiction under the provisions of section 211.071, shall be detained in a jail or other adult detention facility as that term is defined in section 211.151. A traffic court judge may request the juvenile court to order the commitment of a person under the age of seventeen to a juvenile detention facility.
(L. 1989 H.B. 502, et al.)
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