2A:159A-1 - Agreement on detainers; findings of party states; purpose - New Jersey Statutes

2A:159A-1.  Agreement on detainers;  findings of party states;  purpose    The agreement on detainers is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this State with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:

     AGREEMENT ON DETAINERS

     The contracting States solemnly agree that:

     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.

     L.1958, c. 12, p. 33, s. 1 (Art. I), eff. April 18, 1958.