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Subchapter
001
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INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON DETAINERS
(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 1501)
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§ 1501. Purpose and policy—Article I
The party states find that charges outstanding against a prisoner, detainers based
on untried indictments, informations, or complaints, and difficulties in securing
speedy trial of persons already incarcerated in other jurisdictions, produce uncertainties
which obstruct programs of prisoner treatment and rehabilitation. Accordingly, it
is the policy of the party states and the purpose of this agreement to encourage the
expeditious and orderly disposition of such charges and determination of the proper
status of any and all detainers based on untried indictments, informations, or complaints.
The party states also find that proceedings with reference to such charges and detainers,
when emanating from another jurisdiction, cannot properly be had in the absence of
cooperative procedures. It is the further purpose of this agreement to provide such
cooperative procedures. (Added 1967, No. 47, § 1, eff. March 23, 1967.)