What is the status of prisoners while they are under Medical Release (Act 84)?
A. Medical Release or Compassionate Release is really temporary and the judge would issue a temporary order whether it is the deferment of service or just a temporary release for the service. But overall, the individual is still under the controlling authority of either the Department of Corrections or the county prison. (Ann Schwartzman) A. If you look at the statute, the language they use, it would be a temporary deferment of the sentence. I think that’s often viewed as the sentence being temporarily halted, and the person being released out to a facility for treatment, etc. So I think an argument could be made that the sentence is suspended to some degree during that period of time, if the person is released. If the person is recommitted to the facility, then the sentence starts to run again. That doesn’t mean there isn’t any type of supervision while in the community, but it would be more akin to a person being on bail or pre-trial release or post-sentence release where as long the
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