Maine Code § 17-A-1611

Commitments to Department of Corrections of bound-over juveniles who have not
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attained 18 years of age at the time of sentencing
A juvenile who has been bound over, pursuant to Title 15, section 3101, subsection 4, who is
subsequently, as to the juvenile crime's adult counterpart, convicted and sentenced to a sentencing
alternative involving imprisonment and who has not attained 18 years of age at the time of sentence
imposition must be committed to a Department of Corrections juvenile correctional facility for an
indeterminate period not to extend beyond the juvenile's 18th birthday to serve the term of
imprisonment or any unsuspended portion until discharge from the juvenile correctional facility, and
once discharged the juvenile must be transferred to a correctional facility in which adult individuals are
confined to serve out the remainder of the imprisonment term or unsuspended portion, if any. [PL
2019, c. 113, Pt. A, §2 (NEW).]

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