PRINTER'S NO. 537
No. 478 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, NOYE, TRELLO, DIETZ, CHADWICK, MRKONIC,
HERMAN, BURD, E. Z. TAYLOR, MORRIS, BUNT, REINARD,
G. M. SNYDER, PERZEL, CIMINI, DISTLER, CLYMER, GLADECK,
DeLUCA AND KASUNIC, FEBRUARY 27, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 27, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 13, 1963 (P.L.774, No.390), entitled
2 "An act authorizing courts to permit certain prisoners to
3 leave jail during reasonable and necessary hours for
4 occupational, scholastic or medical purposes; conferring
5 powers and imposing duties upon courts, county commissioners
6 and sheriffs and other persons in charge of a jail or
7 workhouse," preventing the release for prisoners who have not
8 yet served their minimum terms.
9 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 hereby enacts as follows:
11 Section 1. Section 1 of the act of August 13, 1963 (P.L.774,
12 No.390), referred to as the County Jail Prisoner Temporary
13 Release Law, amended December 10, 1974 (P.L.824, No.273), is
14 amended to read:
15 Section 1. Whenever any person has been sentenced to undergo
16 imprisonment in a county jail or workhouse, hereafter referred
17 to as a jail, for a term of less than five years the court, at
18 the time of sentence or at any time thereafter upon application
19 made therefor, may by order direct the sheriff, prison keeper,
20 jail keeper, warden or other administrative head of a jail to
1 permit the prisoner to leave the jail, upon completion of his
2 minimum sentence, during necessary and reasonable hours for the
3 purpose of working at his employment, conducting his own
4 business or other self-employed occupation, including in the
5 case of a woman housekeeping and attending to the needs of her
6 family, seeking employment, attendance at an educational
7 institution, securing medical treatment or such other lawful
8 purposes as the court shall consider necessary and appropriate.
9 The order of court may be rescinded or modified at any time with
10 or without notice to the prisoner.
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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