Failure by a public servant to prevent an escape triggers criminal liability with greater punishment for intentional omission. A public servant legally bound to apprehend or keep a person in confinement, in cases not covered by specified provisions or other law, who omits to apprehend or suffers escape incurs criminal liability: intentional omission carries imprisonment up to three years, or fine, or both; negligent omission carries simple imprisonment up to two years, or fine, or both.
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Failure by a public servant to prevent an escape triggers criminal liability with greater punishment for intentional omission.
A public servant legally bound to apprehend or keep a person in confinement, in cases not covered by specified provisions or other law, who omits to apprehend or suffers escape incurs criminal liability: intentional omission carries imprisonment up to three years, or fine, or both; negligent omission carries simple imprisonment up to two years, or fine, or both.
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