Michigan Compiled Laws Complete Through PA 91 of 2026
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Sec. 189.
Negligently suffering escape and refusing to receive a prisoner—Any jailor or other officer
who shall through negligence, suffer any prisoner in his custody upon conviction or upon any
criminal charge, to escape, or who shall wilfully refuse to receive into his custody any prisoner
lawfully committed thereto, on any criminal charge or conviction, or any lawful process
whatever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not
more than 2 years, or by fine of not more than 1,000 dollars.§ 750.189Negligently suffering escape; refusing to receive prisoner
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