A substantial number of inmates confined in our state and federal
prisons face outstanding charges in other jurisdictions. Typically,
those other jurisdictions will file "detainers" against such
inmates. A detainer is a request by the demanding state that its
law enforcement authorities be notified by the confining state when
the inmate's sentence in the confining state is about to expire.
The notification gives the demanding state sufficient time to
extradite the prisoner to its jurisdiction if it chooses to
prosecute him on the outstanding charge. Prisoners subject to
detainers have often had to suffer disabilities because of the
detainers and have often experienced difficulty in arranging for
speedy trials on their outstanding charges. Recently, there has
been considerable legal activity regarding the law of detainers,
and the current state of the law is elaborate and complex. The
following materials discuss the legal contours of the detainer
problem, and explore the way in which the legal process has
responded to the difficult issues posed. Hopefully, the materials
may shed some light on this murky area and may be of particular use
to inmates subject to detainers and to the lawyers and law students
representing them. Originally published by the U. S. Department of
Justice in 1973, this work includes much information that is still
useful for prisoners and their lawyers today.
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