Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 71 Mental Illness - Section 71.05.525 Transfer of person committed to juvenile correction institution to institution or facility for mentally ill juveniles

§ 71.05.525. Transfer of person committed to juvenile correction institution to institution or facility for mentally ill juveniles

When, in the judgment of the department, the welfare of any person committed to or confined in any state juvenile correctional institution or facility necessitates that such a person be transferred or moved for observation, diagnosis or treatment to any state institution or facility for the care of mentally ill juveniles the secretary, or his or her designee, is authorized to order and effect such move or transfer: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the secretary shall adopt and implement procedures to assure that persons so transferred shall, while detained or confined in such institution or facility for the care of mentally ill juveniles, be provided with substantially similar opportunities for parole or early release evaluation and determination as persons detained or confined in state juvenile correctional institutions or facilities: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the secretary shall notify the original committing court of such transfer.

[1997 c 112 § 36; 1975 1st ex.s. c 199 § 12.]

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