Opinion ID: 1752304
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Heading: Credit for time served at Oakdale for psychiatric examination.

Text: Section 907.3(2) provides that a probationer may receive credit on his sentence for time served at an alternate jail facility. The question is whether Oakdale falls within that phrase. Under analogous circumstances credit for pretrial detention has been allowed for time spent in hospitals or diagnostic centers. See e.g., People v. Cowsar, 40 Cal.App.3d 578, 579, 115 Cal.Rptr. 160, 161 (1974) (statute providing credit for time spent in custody in any city, county, or city and county jail entitles defendant to credit for time spent at state hospital because all of the permissible purposes of punishment were served); People v. Gravlin, 52 Mich.App. 467, 217 N.W.2d 404, 405 (1974) (statute providing credit for such time served in jail entitles defendant to credit for time spent at state hospital); Commonwealth v. Jones, 211 Pa.Super. 366, 236 A.2d 834, 836 (1967) (statute providing credit for any days spent in custody entitles defendant to credit for time spent at state mental hospital). Cf. State v. Shaw, 202 Neb. 766, 277 N.W.2d 106, 111 (1979) (defendant entitled to credit for time spent in diagnostic center for sociopathic illness). Contra Dorfman v. State, 351 So.2d 954, 957 (Fla.1977) (statute providing credit for all of the time he spent in the county jail does not entitle defendant to credit for time spent in mental hospital: There is an obvious difference between confinement in a prison (or in a prison infirmary during the period of imprisonment), as part of a criminal sentence, and a period of treatment in a mental hospital for the purpose of helping the individual to return to society.). See generally Campbell, supra § 82, at 264 (Many states have explicit statutory authority for crediting any time the offender spent in the state's mental institution; other jurisdictions so provide by caselaw.) We believe the language of section 907.3(2) is quite specific: A defendant shall be given credit for time served in an alternate jail facility or a community correctional residential treatment facility. Neither of these facilities may be construed to mean merely the equivalent of a jail, or a place where the defendant is confined. An alternate jail facility is specifically defined, and its implementation procedure prescribed, by chapter 356A, The Code. Section 356A.1 requires action by a county board of supervisors to designate a facility as an alternative jail and to maintain it as such. The security medical facility at Oakdale, a state hospital, is simply not such a facility. No claim is made that Oakdale is a community correctional facility. The district court did not err in refusing to give the defendant credit for the time spent there. We find no error. AFFIRMED.