What Does Interstate Detainer Mean? The Interstate Agreement on Detainers (the Agreement) is an agreement that applies to the transfers of sentenced prisoners between two states or between the federal government and a state.

What does it mean when someone has a detainer?

In the United States, a detainer in the context of criminal law is a request filed by a criminal justice agency with the institution in which a prisoner is incarcerated, asking the institution either to hold the prisoner for the agency or to notify the agency when release of the prisoner is imminent. ...

What does detainer type mean?

Detainers are issued to hold inmates who face charges in another jurisdiction. They also are placed against inmates facing a probation violation which has yet to be resolved, and against those who must serve a sentence in other jurisdictions.