Commonwealth v. Patton

KELLY, Judge:

In this appeal we are called upon to determine whether a prisoner’s escape from a hospital to which he had been temporarily transferred for medical treatment, is an escape from a “treatment center” under the Sentencing Code. 204 Pa.Code §§ 303 et seq. We conclude that it is not and affirm judgment of sentence.

The relevant facts stipulated to at appellant’s bench trial are as follows. Appellant, who was incarcerated awaiting trial on unrelated charges of robbery and kidnapping, was temporarily transported in shackles from county jail by a corrections officer to a hospital for…