Absconding from a furlough program · as in force on May 31, 2026
* § 205.18 Absconding from a furlough program.
A person is guilty of absconding from a furlough program when, having been released from confinement in an institution under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of correction in a city having a population of one million or more or of a county which elects to have this article apply thereto to participate in a furlough program, he intentionally fails to return to the institution of his confinement at or before the time prescribed for his return.
Absconding from a furlough program is a class A misdemeanor.
* NB Repealed September 1, 2027
A person released from confinement in an institution under the commissioner of correction of a city with a population of 1 million or more, or of a county that elects to have this article apply, to take part in a furlough program commits this offense by intentionally failing to return to the institution by the required time. ★ It is a class A misdemeanor, and the section is repealed September 1, 2027.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.