Section 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
  inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or
  court commitment was had.
    (d)  "Inmate"  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 inmates as defined in  subdivision  (d)  hereof  may
  lawfully be confined.