Title 61, PRISONS AND PAROLE

The county commissioners of the counties shall, before any inmate may be admitted to the joint detention facilities, after consulting with the advisory board, make general rules and regulations for the management of the joint detention facilities, which rules and regulations shal…

When, in any district formed by counties under this subchapter, the arrangements are complete for the reception of inmates, transfer of all persons who are subject to confinement as provided in this subchapter shall be made to the joint detention facilities of the district.

An inmate of a joint detention facility under the provisions of this subchapter, unless disqualified by sickness or otherwise, shall be kept at some useful employment as may be suited to the inmate's age and capacity and as may tend to promote the best interest of the inmate. If …

The cost of transporting inmates committed to the joint detention facilities shall be paid by the counties, respectively, from which the inmates are committed. The sheriff of the county for inmates committed by the court and constables for inmates committed by magisterial distric…

A detailed statement of the receipt and expenditures by any county constituting a part of the district for joint detention facilities erected under the provisions of this subchapter shall be published by the county commissioners of each county or by the controller in the county. …

(a) General rule.--The original cost of the site and buildings of the joint detention facilities and the equipment thereof, all additions thereto and all fixed overhead charges in conducting the joint detention facilities shall be paid by the counties constituting the districts i…

The county commissioners of each county joining in establishing detention facilities as provided for in this subchapter may make appropriations or incur or increase the indebtedness of the county, in the manner provided by law, to an amount sufficient to pay its proportionate par…

All the property, real and personal, authorized to be held by counties under this subchapter shall be exempt from taxation.

The county commissioners of any two or more counties may join in establishing a joint industrial farm and workhouse for the confinement of: (1) Persons sentenced by the courts of those counties, after conviction, of any misdemeanor or felony, except murder, voluntary manslaughter…

Whenever the commissioners of any two or more counties decide and agree to construct a joint industrial farm and workhouse, they shall acquire a suitable site for the same. The site may be selected from suitable lands already held by any county of the district for county purposes…

After the selection and acquisition of the sites, the county commissioners of the counties may erect and construct suitable and necessary buildings thereon, repair any buildings already erected and equip the buildings for use and occupancy. All buildings constructed in pursuance …

Joint industrial farm and workhouse buildings shall be constructed by contract or contracts let by the county commissioners of the counties to the lowest responsible and best bidder, after due advertisement in at least one newspaper, published in each of the counties joining in t…

After a joint industrial farm and workhouse has been erected and equipped and is ready for occupancy, the president judges of the courts of common pleas of the counties joining in the construction of the joint industrial farm and workhouse shall appoint an advisory board to consi…

(a) General rule.--The advisory board shall meet monthly and at such other times as may be deemed necessary. The board shall visit and inspect and keep in close touch with the management and operation of the joint industrial farm and workhouse and shall, from time to time, make s…

The county commissioners of the counties may, after consultation with the advisory board, employ a chief administrator and such other employees as may be necessary to conduct and manage properly the joint industrial farm and workhouse and shall fix their compensation. The duties …

The county commissioners of the counties shall, before any inmate may be admitted to the joint industrial farm and workhouse, after consulting with the advisory board, make general rules and regulations for the management of the joint industrial farm and workhouse.

(a) General rule.--When, in any district formed by the counties, the arrangements are complete for the reception of inmates, transfer shall be made from the county correctional institutions to the joint industrial farm and workhouse of the district of all persons: (1) Who have be…

(a) General rule.--An inmate committed to a joint industrial farm and workhouse under the provisions of this subchapter, unless disqualified by sickness or otherwise, shall be kept at some useful employment as may be suited to the inmate's age and capacity and as may be most prof…

(a) General rule.--The cost of transporting inmates committed to the joint industrial farms and workhouses shall be paid by the counties, respectively, from which the inmates are committed. The sheriff of the county for inmates committed by the court and constables for inmates co…

A joint industrial farm and workhouse shall employ the inmates committed or transferred thereto in work on or about the buildings and farm and in growing produce, raising stock, etc., for supplies for its own use, the use of the several city and county or county correctional inst…

All road material, brick, tile, concrete and other goods and materials prepared or made at a joint industrial farm and workhouse that are not needed for the purposes of the joint industrial farm and workhouse shall be offered for sale at a price to be fixed by the commissioners o…

A detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures by any county constituting a part of the district for a joint industrial farm and workhouse erected under the provisions of this subchapter shall be published by the county commissioners of each county or by the controller in …

(a) General rule.--The original cost of the site and buildings of the joint industrial farm and workhouse, the equipment thereof, all additions thereto and all fixed overhead charges in conducting the joint industrial farm and workhouse shall be paid by the counties constituting …

The county commissioners of each county joining in establishing a joint industrial farm and workhouse, as provided for in this subchapter, may incur or increase the indebtedness of the county, in the manner provided by law, to an amount sufficient to pay its proportionate part of…

All the property, real and personal, authorized to be held under this subchapter shall be exempt from taxation.

This subchapter does not apply to cities and counties of the first class.

The chief administrators may employ the inmates under their control for and on behalf of the Commonwealth and the inmates for and on behalf of their respective counties.

All moneys received under the provisions of this subchapter for labor done within county correctional institutions or the products of such labor sold shall be credited on account of the receipts and expenditures paid to and for the maintenance of the respective correctional insti…

(a) General rule.--The chief administrator of a county correctional institution shall permit the employment of such inmates serving sentences therein, as they shall deem advisable, at agricultural labor on any county farm of the county under the direction of any person appointed …

(a) General rule.--An inmate of a county correctional institution who is physically capable may be employed at labor for not more than eight hours each day, other than Sundays and public holidays. The employment may be in such character of work and the production of such goods as…

(a) General rule.--The board of inspectors of a county correctional institution of a county of the first class may establish, from time to time, a scale of wages that shall not be less than 10¢ per day and may pay, and the inmates may receive compensation for their work, accordin…

(a) General rule.--All goods, wares, merchandise or other article or thing made by inmate labor in any correctional institution or other establishment in which inmate labor is employed, whether for the direct benefit and maintenance of the correctional institution or other establ…

The department may contract to sell or sell the articles manufactured or produced in any correctional institution which cannot be used therein, to the Commonwealth or to any political subdivision thereof, or to any State, municipality or county authority, created by or under any …

The Chief Administrators at any correctional institution established by the Commonwealth may employ inmates under their control for and on behalf of the Commonwealth, any county, city, borough or township or for any public institution owned, managed and controlled by the Commonwe…

For the purchase of material, equipment and machinery to be used in the designated State correctional institutions, special appropriations shall be made, from time to time, to the Manufacturing Fund.

(a) General rule.--The receipts from the sales of manufactured articles, sold as authorized in this subchapter, shall be deposited into the Manufacturing Fund and used for the purchase of further material, equipment, machinery, supplies, staff compensation and inmate pay. (b) Mon…

(a) Duty to maintain.--The department shall maintain an account of the labor performed by all inmates under sentence in the institution. (b) Contents of accounts.--In the account, the department shall credit the inmate with wages for the time the inmate is actually engaged in wor…

(a) Payment on discharge.--All sums credited to an inmate shall be for the benefit of the inmate and paid to the inmate on the inmate's discharge. (b) Use for present needs.--An inmate who has sums to the inmate's credit may, subject to the rules and regulations of the department…

(a) General rule.--All goods, wares, merchandise or other article or thing made by inmate labor in any correctional institution or other establishment in which inmate labor is employed, whether for the direct benefit and maintenance of the correctional institution or other establ…

The department may contract to sell or sell the articles manufactured or produced in any correctional institution which cannot be used therein to the Commonwealth or to any political subdivision thereof, or to any State, municipality or county authority created by or under any la…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Correctional Institution Medical Services Act.

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Program." The Medical Services Program established for inmates under section 3303 (relating to Medical Services Program…

(a) Establishment.--The Medical Services Program is established in the department which shall include, but not be limited to, the provisions of this chapter. The program shall be a copay program requiring inmates to pay a fee to cover a portion of the actual costs of the medical …

The department shall implement the program by: (1) Issuing regulations as required under section 3303 (relating to Medical Services Program). (2) Providing department staff and medical services providers with training relating to the program. (3) Developing administrative forms f…

(a) Right to seek recovery of costs.--The department may seek to recover any amount owed for medical services fees by an inmate upon release from prison through a civil action brought within one year of the inmate's release. The department shall have the burden to prove the amoun…

The department shall submit to the chairmen and minority chairmen of the Appropriations Committee and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate and the chairmen and minority chairmen of the Appropriations Committee and the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives an annual…