Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all persons sentenced to the Eastern or Western Penitentiary, or to the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon, or to the State Industrial Home for Women at Muncy, or to any other correctional institution hereafter established by the Commonwealth, who are physically capable of such labor, may be employed at labor for not to exceed eight hours each day, other than Sundays and public holidays. Such labor shall be for the purpose of the manufacture and production of supplies for said institutions, or for the Commonwealth or for any county, city, borough, or township, thereof, or for any public institution owned, managed, and controlled by the Commonwealth, or for any educational or charitable institution receiving aid from the Commonwealth, or for the preparation and manufacture of building material for the construction or repair of any State institution, or in the work of such construction or repair, or for the purpose of industrial training or instruction, or partly for one and partly for the other of such purposes, or in the manufacture and production of crushed stone, brick, tile, and culvert pipe, or other material suitable for draining roads of the State, or in the preparation of road building and ballasting material.
(1 amended Apr. 6, 1921, P.L.101, No.61)