Opinion ID: 2204178
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Heading: Statute at Issue

Text: The controlling statute is K.S.A. 21-3809(b)(1), which contains pertinent descriptions of what custody is and what it is not, when that term is used to define the crimes of escape, aggravated escape, and aiding escape. The statute, in the form it existed when Urban was charged through today, provides: `Custody' means . . . detention in a facility for holding persons charged with or convicted of crimes . . .; detention in . . . [another] facility pursuant to court order, imposed as a specific condition of probation or parole or imposed as a specific condition of assignment to a community correctional services program. . . . `Custody' does not include general supervision of a person on probation or parole or constraint incidental to release on bail.