Bill Information - History

An Act amending the act of July 29, 1953 (P. L. 1435, No. 411), entitled "An act relating to the more effective treatment of persons convicted of crime or committed as defective delinquents; creating in the Department of Justice correctional diagnostic and classification centers; providing for the diagnosis and classification of persons sentenced or committed by the courts to a State institution; fixing the responsibility for costs of transportation and maintenance of such persons; prescribing duties of the courts and the powers and duties of the Department of Justice relative thereto; making civil and criminal laws applicable to penitentiaries and persons therein or responsible therefor applicable in the case of the said institutions," providing for the treatment of sex offenders; and making an editorial change.