Title 61, PRISONS AND PAROLE

(a) General rule.--The department shall have the power and its duty shall be: (1) To establish standards for county correctional institutions, including, but not limited to, standards for physical facilities and standards for correctional programs of treatment, education and reha…

A chief administrator, deputy superintendent or corrections officer of a State correctional facility may exercise the powers of a peace officer in the performance of that individual's duties generally in: (1) Guarding, protecting and delivering inmates. (2) Protecting the propert…

(a) Between State and county.--At the request of the chief administrator of a county correctional institution, the secretary or his designee may transfer inmates located in a county correctional institution to the State correctional institution system for such reasons and upon su…

(a) Cities of the first class.--Every person sentenced by any court to a county correctional institution situate in a city of the first class shall be committed to the custody of the city department, where the city department has established a correctional, diagnostic and classif…

The expenses of conveying inmates from the several counties of this Commonwealth to the State correctional institutions in the Eastern Region and Western Region shall be paid by the counties from which the inmates may be sent.

(a) General rule.--Sheriffs, constables, members of the Pennsylvania State Police and other persons authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth to make arrests shall have the use, for a period not to exceed 48 hours, of borough and township lockups and county correctional institu…

(a) General rule.--In all cases where an inmate, after an escape from a State correctional institution, is apprehended or arrested by any officer having authority to make such arrest, the officer shall notify the State correctional institution from which the escape was made. The …

(a) County jurisdiction.-- (1) The cost of transporting an escaped inmate under the jurisdiction of the county from the place of capture to any county correctional institution after being sentenced for the escape or for the commission of any crime or offense following such escape…

(a) County jurisdiction.--In case of conviction and sentence of an escaping inmate under the jurisdiction of the county, the costs of maintenance of the inmates under such new sentence shall be borne by the county from which the inmate was originally committed. (b) State jurisdic…

Where an inmate is in a State correctional institution either because of the inmate's sentence pursuant to the inmate's conviction or plea of guilty to a criminal charge or because of a commitment issued by any court of the Commonwealth having jurisdiction and, while so confined,…

This subchapter relates to correctional facility drug redistribution.

The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Correctional facility." A correctional institution, group home, community corrections center, parole center or any f…

A drug that is issued to a correctional facility and has left the control of a pharmacist at a vendor pharmacy may be returned to its vendor pharmacy for the purpose of redispensing that drug to fill other prescriptions for other correctional facilities only if the following requ…

The vendor pharmacy to which drug products are returned may redispense a drug properly returned under section 1173 (relating to return to and redispensing by vendor pharmacy), provided that: (1) The drugs are returned directly from the correctional facility to the vendor pharmacy…

The vendor pharmacy to which drug products are returned shall credit the correctional facility for the unused drugs that are permitted to be restocked for redispensing at a rate determined by the vendor pharmacy and the correctional facility.

Returned drugs that do not meet all the requirements of section 1173 (relating to return to and redispensing by vendor pharmacy) shall be deemed unacceptable for redispensing and processed for disposal. Drugs deemed unacceptable for redispensing shall be sent to a destruction age…

(1) A pharmacist who is authorized under this subchapter to redispense a drug and who properly relabels and repackages the drug shall not be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct under section 5 of the act of September 27, 1961 (P.L.1700, No.699), known as the Pharmacy…