This topic shows you how to record the legal orders authorizing an offender's custody and movements. TAG helps to ensure that every offender in your custody is legally incarcerated, and can even automatically calculate sentence expiry or earliest possible release dates. The entry of this information must, for obvious reasons, be done carefully and accurately.
For each offender, TAG records all charges and their subsequent disposition. Charges are tracked by order type, court/information number, offense code and number of counts, as stipulated on the legal document.
Remember, the information recorded and stored in TAG is not itself a legal instrument. The final determination of the authority of an offender's custody always rests on the existence of a signed legal document.
A legal document may include a number of offenses and a number of counts for each offense. As each count for each offense may ultimately be dealt with in a different manner, it is important that all offenses and counts on a court document are identified.
There are two types of legal documents. Custody orders provide legal authority to hold (and sometimes move) offenders. Non-custody orders do not grant authority to hold offenders.