Title 61, PRISONS AND PAROLE

(a) General rule.--The Pennsylvania State Police shall continue to procure and file for record photographs, pictures, descriptions, fingerprints and such other information pertaining to all persons who have been convicted of a criminal offense within this Commonwealth and also of…

(a) General rule.--A correctional institution shall, in writing, report each restraint applied to a pregnant, laboring or postpartum individual in the correctional institution's custody, as well as any instance where a pregnant, laboring or postpartum individual is placed in rest…

(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…

This subchapter relates to county jail oversight boards. (Oct. 27, 2010, P.L.931, No.95, eff. imd.) 2010 Amendment. Section 27(1) of Act 95 provided that the amendment of section 1721 shall be retroactive to October 12, 2009.

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: "Board." The county jail oversight board of a county. "County." A county of the second class or a county that has ele…

(a) Establishment.--There is hereby established in each county a county jail oversight board which shall be named the (Name of County) County Jail Oversight Board. The board shall be a continuation of the county prison board originally established under the former act of December…

(a) General rule.--The board's administrative powers and duties shall include the operation and maintenance of the prison and all alternative housing facilities, the oversight of the health and safekeeping of inmates and the confirmation of the chief executive's selection of a wa…

The board shall, in the manner provided by law, promulgate such rules, regulations and forms it deems necessary for the proper administration of the board and for the operation of the prison and alternative housing facilities.

(a) Appointment.-- (1) The chief executive shall appoint a warden subject to confirmation by the board. The warden shall serve at the pleasure of the chief executive, who shall fix an appropriate salary. (2) The warden shall be a resident of the county six months after the date o…

The board shall meet at least once each month and shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings which shall be open to public inspection.

All contracts and purchases required for the maintenance and support of the prisoners, repairs and improvements of the prison and alternative housing facilities and materials and supplies shall be conducted in accordance with the applicable provisions of the county administrative…

(a) General rule.-- (1) In counties of the third, fourth and fifth class, the persons now holding the following offices and their successors in each county of the third, fourth or fifth class shall compose a board to be known as the board of inspectors of the jail or county priso…

(a) Quorum.--A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all actions of the board shall be by the approval of a majority of all the members of the board. (b) Frequency and nature of meetings.-- (1) The board shall meet mon…

The board shall appoint a warden of the county correctional institution. The warden, subject to the approval of the board, may appoint such deputy or deputies, assistant or assistants or corrections officers as may be required in the taking care of the county correctional institu…

A chief administrator, deputy warden or corrections officer of a county correctional institution may exercise the powers of a peace officer in the performance of that person's duties generally in: (1) Guarding, protecting and delivering inmates. (2) Protecting the property and in…

All the expenditures required for the support and maintenance of inmates and the repairs and improvement of the county correctional institution shall be paid from the county treasury by warrants drawn, in the mode prescribed by law, on the regular appropriation for the purpose. N…

The chief administrator of a county correctional institution, at the time of appointment, shall give bond, with good and sufficient security to be fixed and approved by the board of inspectors, for the faithful performance of the chief administrator's duty and may at any time be …

(a) Management by sheriff.--In a county of the sixth, seventh and eighth class, the government, management and control of the county prison and the safekeeping, care, maintenance, discipline and employment of the inmates therein are vested in the sheriff of the county and the off…

Whenever the appointment of prison commissioners in any county having a population of more than 150,000 is by law lodged in the judges of the court of common pleas, the appointments shall, in all cases as nearly as possible, be equally divided between the two political parties po…

(a) Liability of cities.-- (1) When an inmate is committed to any county correctional institution in this Commonwealth either for the nonpayment of a fine or penalty imposed for the violation of any city ordinance or while awaiting a hearing upon any charge for the violation of a…

(a) General rule.--The board of inspectors in any county where such board exists shall, from time to time, fix and change the salaries and compensation of the deputy wardens, corrections officers and other persons employed in and about the county prison. (b) Nonapplicability.--Th…

In any county where the government of the county prison is vested in a prison board, the prison board may fix the place of residence of the warden of the county prison either in the jail or elsewhere.

In any county of the fourth class in which there is a board of inspectors, the board shall pay out of the public moneys under its jurisdiction the premiums on all bonds of employees appointed by the board who are required to furnish bond.

All the property, real and personal, authorized to be held under the former act of June 26, 1895 (P.L.377, No.269), entitled "An act authorizing the erection of work-houses in the several counties of this Commonwealth," shall be exempt from taxation and from levy and sale by virt…

A chief administrator of a county correctional institution may refuse to permit a prisoner to exercise the prisoner's privilege to leave the county correctional institution for a period of not more than five days for any breach of discipline or other violation of regulations of t…

The governing body of a county correctional institution or, where applicable, the county commissioners, may, by resolution which shall establish rates and qualifications, authorize the chief administrator to collect a reasonable amount from inmates incarcerated only on weekends o…

(a) General rule.--Each of the following shall constitute an incident that qualifies as an extraordinary occurrence that must be reported to the department in the County Extraordinary Occurrence Monthly Report in accordance with sections 5905 (relating to healthy birth for incarc…

(a) Authority.--The county commissioners of any two or more adjoining counties may join in establishing, according to a plan, detention facilities for the confinement of persons awaiting trial or sentence on criminal charges, convicted on criminal charges or not otherwise eligibl…

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

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