1. If the Attorney General, a prosecuting attorney or an agency of criminal justice in this State receives a request from the Department of Corrections, it shall respond in writing within 14 working days setting forth any charges that are pending against the offender.
2. If the Attorney General, a prosecuting attorney or an agency of criminal justice indicates in its response pursuant to subsection 1 that felony charges are pending against an offender, it shall, or if misdemeanor charges are pending against an offender, it may, request in the response that upon release of the offender from the custody of the Department of Corrections, the Department release the offender to an agency of criminal justice in this State that is authorized to detain a person pending prosecution. The Attorney General, a prosecuting attorney or an agency of criminal justice may submit such a request to the Department of Corrections at any other time, if charges are filed against an offender.
3. If an offender is convicted, acquitted or the charges are dropped after a request was submitted pursuant to this section, the Attorney General, prosecuting attorney or agency of criminal justice who submitted the request shall withdraw the request by providing a certified copy of the judgment to the Department of Corrections if the offender was convicted or acquitted, or by providing proof to the Department that the charges were dropped.
4. The Attorney General, a prosecuting attorney or an agency of criminal justice shall notify the Department of Corrections upon receipt of a detainer against an inmate from another jurisdiction who is transferred to the custody of the Department of Corrections.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 917; A 2001 Special Session, 223)
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