Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 575

Offenses Against the Administration of Justice

←575.220

Section 575.220.2

575.230→

August 28, 2015

Until December 31, 2016--Failure to return to confinement.

575.220. 1. A person commits the crime of failure to return to

confinement if, while serving a sentence for any crime under a work-release

program, or while under sentence of any crime to serve a term of confinement

which is not continuous, or while serving any other type of sentence for any

crime wherein he or she is temporarily permitted to go at large without

guard, he or she purposely fails to return to confinement when he or she is

required to do so.



2. This section does not apply to persons who are free on bond, bail or

recognizance, personal or otherwise, nor to persons who are on probation or

parole, temporary or otherwise.



3. Failure to return to confinement is a class C misdemeanor unless:



(1) The sentence being served is to the Missouri department of

corrections and human resources, in which case failure to return to

confinement is a class D felony; or



(2) The sentence being served is one of confinement in a county or

private jail on conviction of a felony, in which case failure to return to

confinement is a class A misdemeanor.



(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2009 S.B. 44)



*This section was amended by S.B. 491, 2014, effective 1-01-17. Due

to the delayed effective date, both versions of this section are

printed here.







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