PRINTER'S NO. 2317
No. 1810 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY LEDERER, HAMMOCK, IRVIS, FISHER, BERSON, OLIVER,
RICHARDSON, TAYOUN, BLACKWELL, MYERS, RHODES, SCIRICA,
WAGNER, AND CUMBERLAND, OCTOBER 1, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 2, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 11, 1923, (P.L.1044, No.425), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act to authorize and provide for the transfer
3 and retransfer of person or persons confined in any
4 penitentiary, prison, workhouse, house of correction, or any
5 other institution for adult prisoners, under sentence of law,
6 convicted but awaiting sentence, awaiting trial, or confined
7 for any other purpose to some other prison, penitentiary,
8 workhouse, house of correction, or other institution for
9 adult prisoners," providing for expenditure of certain
10 savings by counties.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. The act of July 11, 1923, (P.L.1044, No.425),
14 entitled, as amended, "An act to authorized and provide for the
15 transfer and retransfer of person or persons confined in any
16 penitentiary, prison, workhouse, house of correction, or any
17 other institution for adult prisoners, under sentence of law,
18 convicted but awaiting sentence, awaiting trial, or confined for
19 any other purpose to come other prison, penitentiary, workhouse,
20 house of correction, or other institution for adult prisoners,"
21 is amended by adding a section to read:
1 Section 7. Fifty per cent (50%) of all funds saved by a
2 county as a result of transferring a county prisoner to a State
3 correctional institution for confinement shall be directly
4 budgeted for improvement of county correctional programs.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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