Bill Information

An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for adoption of guidelines for sentencing, for guidelines for State intermediate punishment; providing for adoption of risk assessment instrument; further providing for sentencing generally, for revocation of State intermediate punishment sentence; in general administration, providing for definitions and for powers and duties of department; in county jail oversight board in counties of the second class and second class A, further providing for scope, for definitions and for county jail oversight board; in inmate labor, further providing for disposition of proceeds of labor and providing for State correctional institutions; providing for evaluation in motivational boot camps; in State intermediate punishment, further providing for evaluation; further providing for recidivism reports; providing for confidentiality of victim information; in administration, further providing for board action, providing for offenders in group-based homes and further providing for general powers, parole power, terms of parole, victim participation in hearings and supervision of offenders; in interstate compacts, further providing for administration and providing for a compact application fee; making a related repeal; and making editorial changes.