Archived Bill Info

"HESS"

An act for the centralized regulation and supervision of penal correctional and reformatory institutions with this Commonwealth and of the labor of the inmates thereof creating a Committee on Delinquency to be elected by the Board of Public Charities from its members with a Commissioner of Delinquency to be appointed as its executive officers providing for the appointment of certain directors and of such other directors, experts, agents and employes as shall be necessary enumerating the powers and duties of the Committee providing for the transfer with the approval of the courts of inmates from one institution to another requiring all institutions within the jurisdiction of the Committee to obey its rules and regulations; make reports and give inmates an opportunity to work at useful employment; providing for payment of compensation to the inmates of certain institutions within the jurisdiction of the Committee; abolishing the Prison Labor Commission; fixing penalties for disobedience of the provisions of this act and making an appropriation.

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Referred to the Committee on Manufactures, March 25.

Reported as committed, May 27.

Passed first reading, May 28.

Passed second reading with amendments, June 9.

Recommitted to the Committee on Manufactures, June 9.