Section 2. The Commissioner of Correction of the Department of Justice shall formulate a State-wide plan of operation of the penal and correctional institutions within the Department of Justice. The Eastern and Western State Penitentiaries shall be maximum security institutions and the State Penitentiaries at Rockview, Graterford and Huntingdon shall be used for maximum, medium and minimum security institutions, as the Commissioner of Correction shall designate by such plan: Provided, however, That each institution shall have a separate warden or superintendent, and the practice of having branch institutions shall be abolished.
Compiler's Note: Section 502 of Act 164 of 1980 provided
that the powers and duties of the Attorney General and/or
the Department of Justice contained in section 2 are
transferred to the Office of General Counsel.