Reglas sobre la fuga y custodia en Nueva Jersey

Explicación Simple

Si alguien está detenido en una cárcel por un problema legal, no puede salir sin permiso. Si un oficial deja que esa persona se vaya sin seguir las reglas, eso se considera una fuga.

Es como si un niño estuviera en su habitación como castigo y su padre le dijera que no puede salir. Si el padre lo deja salir sin razón, el niño se escapa de su castigo.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan fue detenido por una deuda y está en la cárcel. El sheriff, sin permiso, lo deja salir para que vaya a comprar comida. Juan no debería haber salido y el sheriff podría tener problemas por dejarlo ir.

Penalidades

El oficial responsable podría ser demandado por el acreedor por el monto de la deuda del detenido.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

2A:36-1. What constitutes escape Any person committed to a county jail or other place of detention upon process issued in a civil action, shall be actually detained therein until lawfully discharged. If, at any time, the officer to whom such process was issued permits any person committed to his custody thereunder to go or to be at large out of the jail or other place of detention, except by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus or court order, such going or being at large shall be deemed to be an escape. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344. 2A:36-2. Safe-keeping of persons taken under body execution Every officer to whom a body execution has been issued and who shall have taken the person directed to be taken shall safely keep such person in jail, or other place of detention, without bail, except as authorized by law, until the requirements of such execution shall be satisfied. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344. 2A:36-3. Liability for escape of person committed under body execution If a sheriff or other officer in authority permits or allows any person committed to go out of jail or other place of detention or be at large by bail or otherwise, except as authorized by law, without the consent of the execution creditor, he shall be liable to the execution creditor for the amount required to be paid by said execution to satisfy the same and for which such person has been committed, recoverable by the execution creditor from the sheriff or other officer, with costs. L.1951 (1st SS), c.344. 2A:36-4.