PRINTER'S NO. 3800
No. 2753 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY GEIST, ARGALL, BARRAR, BROWNE, DEMPSEY, GEORGE,
HARHAI, LAUGHLIN, PESCI, SHANER, HALUSKA AND DeLUCA,
AUGUST 13, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, AUGUST 13, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 16, 1968 (P.L.351, No.173), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act authorizing the establishment of prisoner
3 pre-release centers and release plans under the jurisdiction
4 of the Department of Justice and defining its powers and
5 duties," further regulating prisoner transfers.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 2(a) of the act of July 16, 1968
9 (P.L.351, No.173), referred to as the Prisoner Pre-release Plan
10 Law, amended December 27, 1974, P.L.993, No.325), is amended to
11 read:
12 Section 2. Release Plan for Prison Inmates.--(a) The
13 Commissioner of Correction may transfer any person incarcerated
14 in any pre-release center or in any pre-release center located
15 in any State or Regional Penal or Correctional Institution under
16 the supervision of the Bureau of Correction who has not been
17 sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to [any] a pre-release
18 center under the supervision of the Department of Justice[.]
19 provided that such pre-release center is within fifty miles of
1 the State or Regional Penal or Correctional Institution from
2 which the person will be released.
3 * * *
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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