§ 102. Definitions. As used in this compact, unless the context
clearly requires otherwise:

(a) "State" means a state of the United States; the United States of
America; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of
Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(b) "Sending state" means a state party to this compact in which
conviction or court commitment was had.

(c) "Receiving state" means a state party to this compact to which an
incarcerated individual is sent for confinement other than a state in
which conviction or court commitment was had.

(d) "Incarcerated individual" means a male or female offender who is
committed, under sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional
institution.

(e) "Institution" means any penal or correctional facility, including
but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally
defective, in which incarcerated individuals as defined in subdivision
(d) of this section may lawfully be confined.