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from a prison or from one prison to another or while he is under
treatment or observation in any hospital.
152. Any prisoner who shall be guilty of escape from any place
of confinement or of punishment, or from a hospital where he is
under treatment or observation, or from the custody of the person
or persons charged with his custody, shall, when the escape has
been effected by violence on the person, or with breaching the
places mentioned, be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a
term from two years to four years saving any other punishment to
which he may be subject under any other provision of this Code or
any other law.
Prison breaking.
Substituted by:
VII. 1999.6.
In this article ''prisoner'' has the same meaning assigned to
it in article 151.
153. Where the escape of any person under arrest or sentence
is effected in consequence of the negligence or imprudence of the
person charged with his custody, care or conveyance, the person so
charged shall, on conviction, be liable (a) if the party escaping is accused of, or sentenced for
any crime liable to a punishment not exceeding two
years’ imprisonment, or if he is in lawful custody for
any cause other than a crime, to imprisonment for a
term from one to three months;
(b) if the party escaping is accused of, or sentenced for
any crime liable to a punishment exceeding two years
but not exceeding five years’ imprisonment, to
imprisonment for a term from four to six months;
(c) if the party escaping is accused of, or sentenced for
any crime liable to a punishment exceeding five years’
imprisonment, to imprisonment for a term from seven
months to one year.
Negligence or
imprudence of
person charged
with the custody,
etc., of person
escaping.
Amended by:
XXI.1971.15;
XLIX. 1981.4.
154. Where the escape of any person under arrest or sentence is
effected with the connivance of or by bribing the person charged
with his custody, care, or conveyance, the person so charged shall,
in the cases referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the last
preceding article, be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for the
term as respectively fixed in the said paragraphs, increased by one
degree and to the punishment of perpetual general interdiction.
Connivance, etc.,
of person charged
with the custody,
etc., of person
escaping. Amended
by: XXI.1971.16;
XLIX. 1981.4,
155. The punishment laid down in the last two preceding
articles shall be increased by one degree, where the escape is
effected by any of the means mentioned in article 152, or by
conveying into the place of confinement or of punishment any
instrument or weapon to facilitate the escape.
Aggravating
circumstances.
156. Whosoever, not being charged with the custody, care, or
conveyance of any person under arrest or sentence, shall facilitate
or be an accomplice in the escape of such person, shall, on
conviction, be liable to the punishment established for the person
so charged and conniving, decreased by one degree:
Aiding and
abetting on the part
of person not
charged with the
custody, etc., of
person escaping.
Amended by:
IX. 1982.2.
Provided that in the cases referred to in the last preceding