217.250. Offender with terminal disease or advanced age where confinement will endanger or shorten life, report to governor, procedure.
Offender with terminal disease or advanced age where confinement willendanger or shorten life, report to governor, procedure.
217.250. Whenever any offender is afflicted with a diseasewhich is terminal, or is advanced in age to the extent that theoffender is in need of long-term nursing home care, or whenconfinement will necessarily greatly endanger or shorten theoffender's life, the correctional center's physician shallcertify such facts to the chief medical administrator, statingthe nature of the disease. The chief medical administrator withthe approval of the director will then forward the certificate tothe board of probation and parole who in their discretion maygrant a medical parole or at their discretion may recommend tothe governor the granting or denial of a commutation.
(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 62, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1994 S.B. 763)