Title 46, Criminal Justice

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) “Work release” means the release of an inmate to the community to be employed for wages. Release for employment may be authorized each day between the hours of 6:00 o’clock A.M. and 6:00 o’clock P.M., for…

(a) The Commissioner of Public Safety is responsible for the administration of the prisoner rehabilitative release program. He shall make periodic review of the rules and law governing the release program. As deem advisable he shall make appropriate changes to existing rules and …

The rehabilitative release program shall be available to all sentenced inmates confined in the territorial correctional facility who meet the qualifications stated below. (a) Inmates who are serving terms of detention as a condition of probation are eligible, but their employment…

The work place assigned by an employer, or other place designated in the rehabilitative release program contractual agreement and the direct route to and from those designated places, are an extension of confinement. A person commits the crime of escape from rehabilitative releas…

(a) It is the duty of a rehabilitative release program employer, teacher, instructor, or any other person who has authority over or directs the educational or vocational activities of a participating inmate to immediately report to the Territorial Correctional Facility the absenc…

(a) Any person who agrees to transport an inmate between the territorial correctional facility, or any other facility designated as a place of custody, and the inmate’s place of work shall sign a transportation agreement. No rehabilitative release inmate shall be permitted to lea…

The net earnings of each inmate participating in the rehabilitative release program shall be forwarded to the Treasurer for deposit to the account of the inmate in a rehabilitative release account in the Territorial Treasury for the sole benefit of the inmate. Such wages may be d…

Wages and salaries earned through placement in the rehabilitative release program shall not be subject to garnishment, attachment, or execution in the hands of the employer or the Treasurer. History: 1999, PL 26-5

When determined by the Commissioner that the circumstances of a rehabilitative release program participant do not require the security of the territorial correctional facility, he may contract with private agencies for the custody and separate care of such places of custody. (a) …

Inmate residents of a halfway house are required to share the cost of the American Samoa Government contract on a basis to be determined by the Commissioner and clearly listed in the contractual agreement. (a) Payment of room and board shall be made by the inmate directly to the …

Any device attached to the person of an arrestee or convicted prisoner that is used in conjunction with a public telephone system that alerts authorities to the absence of the person from an assigned place of home arrest or other place of temporary release from the Territorial Co…

The use of electronic monitoring devices is hereby authorized for use of the court or the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety under the following conditions. (a) When in the opinion of the court home arrest is a practical alternative to bail or pretrial confinement. (…

The Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety is hereby designated as the sole person responsible to purchase, control, attach and remove all electronic monitoring devices authorized by this chapter. The Commissioner is also empowered and directed to monitor all persons wea…

A person who has had attached to his person, pursuant to court order, or as a requirement of the territorial correctional facility rehabilitative release program, an electronic monitoring device, and who removes such device from his person, or who renders such device inoperative,…