The following terms wherever used or referred to in this chapter, except where incompatible with the purposes hereof, shall mean:\n(a) Administration. — The Corrections Administration.\n(b) Administrator. — The Correctional Administrator.\n(c) Correctional population, members of the correctional population or member of the correctional population. — Any person placed under the jurisdiction of the Corrections Administration by authority of law.\n(d) Institution or Institutions. — Any structure or place, under the jurisdiction of the Corrections Administration, where the members of the correctional population are confined.\n(e) Director. — The Director of the Corrections Administration Transportation Office.\n(f) Office. — Is the Transportation Office for members of the Correctional Administration.\n(g) Indicted person. — Any person placed under the custody of the Corrections Administration by virtue of a judicial order or decision.\n(h) Person. — Includes indicted and convicted persons who have been placed in the custody of the Corrections Administration by virtue of authority of law.\n(i) Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment Center or Center. udes indicted and convicted persons who have been placed in the custody of the Corrections Administration by virtue of authority of law.\n(i) Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment Center or Center. — Includes every facility or dependency of the Classification, Diagnosis or Treatment Center located in any region of Puerto Rico.\nHistory —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 54; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; Aug. 20, 1996, No. 155, § 3; Jan. 4, 2000, No. 4, § 2; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 29; renumbered as § 59 on Oct. 31, 2004, No. 151, § 15.
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