Sec. 18-65. (Formerly Sec. 17-360). Persons confined in institution.
Sec. 18-65. (Formerly Sec. 17-360). Persons confined in institution. Persons
over sixteen years of age who have been committed by any court of criminal jurisdiction
to the Commissioner of Correction may be confined in the Connecticut Correctional
Institution, Niantic.
(1949 Rev., S. 2742; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 201; 1961, P.A. 580, S. 4; 1967, P.A. 152, S. 20; 555, S. 74; 1969, P.A. 301;
1972, P.A. 28, S. 1; 127, S. 33; P.A. 75-633, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act deleted requirement for commitment by sheriff or police officer; 1961 act added women sentenced
to jails and deleted stipulation that expenses be paid as for commitments to other penal institutions; 1967 acts changed
"committed ... to said institution" to "committed ... to the commissioner of correction"; and "drug using" to "illicit traffic
or possession of controlled drugs" and omitted requirement that a woman accompany committing officer but see Sec. 17-381; Sec. 17-360 transferred to Sec. 18-65 in 1968; 1969 act replaced Connecticut State Farm for Women with Connecticut
Correctional Institution, Niantic, replaced duration of "commitment, including the time spent on parole," with duration of
"confinement", added provision re computation of served sentence and stated that parole violator is subject to Sec. 54-128; 1972 acts removed "unmarried girls between ... sixteen and twenty-one years ... in manifest danger of falling into
habits of vice or ... leading vicious lives and who are convicted thereof ..." from confinement provision; P.A. 75-633
replaced "women" with "persons", made confinement optional rather than mandatory and deleted provisions describing
specific offenders to whom provisions are applicable, limiting term of confinement and describing computation of time
served.
Cited. 115 C. 596.
Prior to 1972 amendment, circuit court could commit wayward girls for indeterminate three years, section 54-1a did
not limit its jurisdiction hereunder. Holding that imposition of up to three year terms for criminal convictions was unconstitutional as discriminatory affected only that part of section relating to commitments for crime. 159 C. 150.
On habeas corpus petition, sentence of three years under this statute for violation of section 53-174 imposed by circuit
court modified to term permitted under said section as term imposed exceeded statutory punishment for breach of peace
and the jurisdiction of circuit court. 28 CS 9. Commitment of plaintiff by circuit court for possible three years maximum
sentence is invalid only as to that portion which exceeded one year limit of court's jurisdiction. Id., 424. The court may
not fix the term of a commitment to Niantic Correctional Institution. 31 CS 350.
Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 206.