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Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 34, § 859 (2026)

Escape from center; penalty

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SECTION HISTORY
PL 1967, c. 391, §20 (RPR). P&SL 1973, c. 221, §7 (AMD). PL 1973, c. 625, §§235, 236 (AMD). PL 1975, c. 499, §68 (RP).
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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1972–1976 · leading case: Burton Andrew Wark v. Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State Prison, 458 F.2d 1295 (1st Cir. 1972).
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Burton Andrew Wark v. Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State Prison, 458 F.2d 1295 (1st Cir. 1972). “It follows that the crime of escape from the Women’s Reformatory described in 34 M.R.S.A. § 859, and that of escape from *1299 the State Prison described in 34 M.”
State v. Emery, 357 A.2d 878 (Me. 1976). “34 M.R.S.A. § 859 establishes the penalties for escape and attempted escape from the Center, providing different punishments depending upon whether a woman is a “prisoner” or an “inmate.”
State v. Stewart, 330 A.2d 800 (Me. 1975). “Not unexpectedly, escapes by persons not actually under physical restraint became more common than were escapes from inside the prison’s walls or when prisoners were closely guarded outside the walls.”
State v. Chase, 330 A.2d 909 (Me. 1975). “The Maine Rules of Evidence proposed by the Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence, tentative Draft, December 1974, provides that records of regularly conducted business and public records and reports shall be admissible as evidence in the circumstances there described.”
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