PRINTER'S NO. 2315
No. 1808 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY LEDERER, HAMMOCK, IRVIS, OLIVER, BERSON,
RICHARDSON, TAYOUN, BLACKWELL, MYERS, RHODES,
M. E. MILLER, JR., WAGNER AND W. D. HUTCHINSON,
OCTOBER 1, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 2, 1975
AN ACT
1 Authorizing discharge and parole supervision of terminally ill
2 prisoner.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Whenever any prisoner under sentence in any penal
6 institution irrespective of how much of his sentence has been
7 served is found to be terminally ill, and such fact is certified
8 to the sentencing court and the Deputy Director of the Bureau of
9 Corrections by the affidavit of two physicians, the Deputy
10 Director of the Bureau of Corrections, without objection of the
11 sentencing court, may discharge the person from the jurisdiction
12 of the Bureau of Corrections and place such person under parole
13 supervision of the Board of Probation and Parole when the
14 maximum sentence was more than two years or such board or the
15 sentencing court, when the maximum sentence was less than two
16 years.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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