PRINTER'S NO. 305
No. 273 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLI, BAKER, BASTIAN, BELFANTI, BUXTON,
CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, DALEY, FAIRCHILD, FRANKEL, GEIST,
HARRIS, HENNESSEY, MAHONEY, MANDERINO, MELIO, R. MILLER,
PHILLIPS, PICKETT, SCAVELLO AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 6, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 6, 2007
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 providing for release plans.
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.933, 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 pre-release
18 center under the supervision of the Department of Justice[.]
1 provided the pre-release center in which the person is
2 incarcerated immediately prior to his release from any State or
3 regional penal or correctional institution under the supervision
4 of the Bureau of Correction is within fifty miles of the county
5 where the individual was most recently prosecuted.
6 * * *
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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