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Price (HB 349) Act No. 152
With regard to the crime of simple escape, prior law provided that if a person who is
participating in a work release program commits the crime of simple escape, the court shall
sentence the person to imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year.
Prior law further prohibited that sentence from running concurrently to any other sentence
imposed.
New law amends prior law by providing the court with discretion as to whether to impose
a sentence of imprisonment and by removing the provision which prohibits any sentence
imposed for the simple escape from a work release program from running concurrently to any
other sentence imposed.
Effective August 1, 2013.
(Amends R.S. 14:110(B)(1))