61 Pa.C.S. § 101
Short title of title
This title shall be known and may be cited as the Prisons and Parole Code.
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Title 61 — PRISONS AND PAROLE
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61 Pa.C.S. § 102
Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this title shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Board." The Pennsylvania Parole Board. "Chief administrator." The warden, superintendent or other officer in charge of a correctional institution. "City departme…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1101
Benefits to injured employees of State correctional institutions
(a) General rule.--An employee of a State correctional institution who is injured during the course of that employment by an act of an inmate or by any person who has been committed to the State correctional institution by any court of the Commonwealth or by any provision of the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.817, No.143), k…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1102
Correctional facility for criminological diagnosis
(a) Establishment.--There is hereby established a correctional facility for criminological diagnosis, classification, social and psychological treatment and research, medical treatment and staff training. (b) Operation and management.--The department shall operate and manage the correctional facility established under…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1103
Recording system for identification of criminal offenders
(a) General rule.--The Pennsylvania State Police shall continue to procure and file for record photographs, pictures, descriptions, fingerprints and such other information pertaining to all persons who have been convicted of a criminal offense within this Commonwealth and also of all well-known and habitual criminal of…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1104
State recording system relating to pregnant and postpartum incarcerated individuals or detainees
(a) General rule.--A correctional institution shall, in writing, report each restraint applied to a pregnant, laboring or postpartum individual in the correctional institution's custody, as well as any instance where a pregnant, laboring or postpartum individual is placed in restrictive housing. The report shall note t…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1105
Powers and duties of department
(a) General rule.--The department shall have the power and its duty shall be: (1) To establish standards for county correctional institutions, including, but not limited to, standards for physical facilities and standards for correctional programs of treatment, education and rehabilitation of inmates. (2) To inspect co…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1106
Powers of peace officers
A chief administrator, deputy superintendent or corrections officer of a State correctional facility may exercise the powers of a peace officer in the performance of that individual's duties generally in: (1) Guarding, protecting and delivering inmates. (2) Protecting the property of the department. (3) Capturing and r…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1151
General transfer authorization
(a) Between State and county.--At the request of the chief administrator of a county correctional institution, the secretary or his designee may transfer inmates located in a county correctional institution to the State correctional institution system for such reasons and upon such terms and conditions as the secretary…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1152
Transfers to city department
(a) Cities of the first class.--Every person sentenced by any court to a county correctional institution situate in a city of the first class shall be committed to the custody of the city department, where the city department has established a correctional, diagnostic and classification service for persons convicted of…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1153
Expense of removing certain inmates
The expenses of conveying inmates from the several counties of this Commonwealth to the State correctional institutions in the Eastern Region and Western Region shall be paid by the counties from which the inmates may be sent.
61 Pa.C.S. § 1154
Law enforcement use of county correctional institutions
(a) General rule.--Sheriffs, constables, members of the Pennsylvania State Police and other persons authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth to make arrests shall have the use, for a period not to exceed 48 hours, of borough and township lockups and county correctional institutions for the detention of persons arres…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1161
Return of escaped inmates
(a) General rule.--In all cases where an inmate, after an escape from a State correctional institution, is apprehended or arrested by any officer having authority to make such arrest, the officer shall notify the State correctional institution from which the escape was made. The State correctional institution shall not…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1162
Escaped inmate costs
(a) County jurisdiction.-- (1) The cost of transporting an escaped inmate under the jurisdiction of the county from the place of capture to any county correctional institution after being sentenced for the escape or for the commission of any crime or offense following such escape and before apprehension, the cost of ma…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1163
Maintenance of escaping inmates under new sentence
(a) County jurisdiction.--In case of conviction and sentence of an escaping inmate under the jurisdiction of the county, the costs of maintenance of the inmates under such new sentence shall be borne by the county from which the inmate was originally committed. (b) State jurisdiction.--In case of conviction and sentenc…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1164
Criminal offense during confinement
Where an inmate is in a State correctional institution either because of the inmate's sentence pursuant to the inmate's conviction or plea of guilty to a criminal charge or because of a commitment issued by any court of the Commonwealth having jurisdiction and, while so confined, the inmate commits a criminal offense a…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1171
Scope of subchapter
This subchapter relates to correctional facility drug redistribution.
61 Pa.C.S. § 1172
Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Correctional facility." A correctional institution, group home, community corrections center, parole center or any facility that houses a person convicted o…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1173
Return to and redispensing by vendor pharmacy
A drug that is issued to a correctional facility and has left the control of a pharmacist at a vendor pharmacy may be returned to its vendor pharmacy for the purpose of redispensing that drug to fill other prescriptions for other correctional facilities only if the following requirements are met: (1) The drug is not a…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1174
Vendor pharmacy redispensing
The vendor pharmacy to which drug products are returned may redispense a drug properly returned under section 1173 (relating to return to and redispensing by vendor pharmacy), provided that: (1) The drugs are returned directly from the correctional facility to the vendor pharmacy. (2) The drugs returned to the vendor p…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1175
Credit for redispensing
The vendor pharmacy to which drug products are returned shall credit the correctional facility for the unused drugs that are permitted to be restocked for redispensing at a rate determined by the vendor pharmacy and the correctional facility.
61 Pa.C.S. § 1176
Disposal of unacceptable returned drugs
Returned drugs that do not meet all the requirements of section 1173 (relating to return to and redispensing by vendor pharmacy) shall be deemed unacceptable for redispensing and processed for disposal. Drugs deemed unacceptable for redispensing shall be sent to a destruction agency, reverse distributor, manufacturer,…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1177
Unprofessional conduct
(1) A pharmacist who is authorized under this subchapter to redispense a drug and who properly relabels and repackages the drug shall not be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct under section 5 of the act of September 27, 1961 (P.L.1700, No.699), known as the Pharmacy Act. (2) A pharmacist who fails to comp…
61 Pa.C.S. § 1721
Scope of subchapter
This subchapter relates to county jail oversight boards.
61 Pa.C.S. § 1722
Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Board." The county jail oversight board of a county. "County." A county of the second class or a county that has elected to be governed by the provisions of…
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