102 - Definitions.

§  102.  Definitions.  As  used  in  this  compact, unless the context  clearly requires otherwise:    (a) "State" means a state of the United States; the United  States  of  America; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of  Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.    (b)  "Sending  state"  means  a  state  party to this compact in which  conviction or court commitment was had.    (c) "Receiving state" means a state party to this compact to which  an  inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or  court commitment was had.    (d)  "Inmate"  means a male or female offender who is committed, under  sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional institution.    (e) "Institution" means any penal or correctional facility,  including  but  not  limited  to  a  facility  for  the  mentally  ill  or mentally  defective, in which inmates as defined in  subdivision  (d)  hereof  may  lawfully be confined.