§ 2. Definitions. When used in this chapter, unless otherwise\nexpressly stated or the context or subject matter otherwise requires,\nthe following terms have the following meanings:\n 1. "Department" means the state department of corrections and\ncommunity supervision;\n 2. "Commissioner" means the state commissioner of corrections and\ncommunity supervision;\n 3. "Commission" means the state commission of correction;\n 4. (a) "Correctional facility". Any place operated by the department\nand designated by the commissioner as a place for the confinement of\npersons under sentence of imprisonment or persons committed for failure\nto pay a fine. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subdivision,\nwhenever reference has been or hereafter will be made in any statute,\njudgment, sentence, commitment, court order or otherwise to a state\nprison, state reformatory, reception center, diagnostic center or other\ninstitution or facility in the department, such reference shall be\ndeemed to mean "correctional facility".\n (b) The term "correctional facility" shall not, however, be deemed to\nmean or to include any place operated by the department for the care and\nconfinement of persons who have been found to be mentally defective or\nmentally ill by a court and who are confined in such place pursuant to\nan order of a court based upon such finding.\n (c) Whenever the term "institution" is used in this chapter or\nelsewhere in such context as to mean an institution in the department,\nsuch term shall be deemed to include correctional facilities and any\nother place operated by the department as a place for the confinement of\npersons.\n 5. "Reception center". A correctional facility for reception,\nclassification and program-planning for purposes of confinement,\ntreatment and transfer.\n 6. "Residential treatment facility". A correctional facility\nconsisting of a community based residence in or near a community where\nemployment, educational and training opportunities are readily available\nfor persons who are on parole or conditional release and for persons who\nare or who will soon be eligible for release on parole who intend to\nreside in or near that community when released.\n 7. "Detention center". A correctional facility for the temporary\ndetention of persons taken into custody upon violation of parole or upon\nviolation of a condition of release, or of persons being transferred\nfrom other correctional facilities, or of persons who are assigned to\nother correctional facilities for confinement but whose presence is\nrequired in court or for some other purpose at a location that is\ndistant from the institution of confinement.\n 8. "Correctional Camp". A correctional facility consisting of a camp\nmaintained for the purpose of including conservation work in the program\nof incarcerated individuals.\n 9. "Diagnostic and treatment center". A correctional facility operated\nfor the purpose of providing intensive physical, mental and sociological\ndiagnostic and treatment services including pre-parole diagnostic\nevaluation, where requested by the board of parole, and scientific study\nof the social and mental aspects of the causes of crime.\n 10. "General confinement facility". A correctional facility for\nconfinement and treatment of persons under institutional programs\noriented to education, vocational training and industry.\n 11. "Work release facility". A facility designated by the commissioner\nas an institution that may conduct a work release program.\n 12. "Superintendent". The chief administrative officer of a\ncorrectional facility. Whenever the term "warden" appears in this\nchapter in such context as to mean an officer of a state correctional\nfacility, such reference shall be deemed to mean "superintendent".\n 13. "Infant" or "minor" means a person who has not attained the age of\neighteen years.\n * 14. "Community treatment facility." A residential chemical\ndependence facility approved as provi
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