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A. It shall be unlawful to:

1. Remove oneself from official detention or fail to return to official detention following temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or period; or

2. Knowingly procure, make or possess anything which may facilitate escape while being held in official detention; or

3. Aid another person to escape official detention; or

4. Knowingly provide a person in official detention with anything which may facilitate such person’s escape.

B. “Official detention” means arrest, detention in any facility for custody of a person under the charge or convicted of a crime; or any other detention for law enforcement purposes, but “official detention” does not include supervision of probation or parole or constraint incident to release on bail.

C. Escape shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by a term of imprisonment in the Tribal Jail not to exceed one year, or both.