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61 PA Cons Stat § 1764 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1764 - Construction contracts

§ 1764. Construction contracts.  Joint detention facilities shall be constructed by contract or contracts let by the county commissioners of the counties to the lowest responsible and best bidder after due advertisement in at least one newspaper, published in each of the counties joining in the erection of the joint detention facilities, once a week for two consecutive weeks. When so constructed, the joint detention facilities shall be equipped by the county commissioners of the counties at the cost of the counties in the same manner as other county buildings are equipped.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1765 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1765 - Advisory board

§ 1765. Advisory board.  After joint detention facilities have been erected and equipped and are ready for occupancy, the president judges of the courts of common pleas of the counties joining in the construction of the joint detention facilities shall appoint an advisory board to consist of three persons from each of the counties. The president judge of each of the counties shall appoint one member of the board to serve for one year, one to serve for two years and one to serve for three years or until their successors are appointed and qualified. All appointments at the expiration of any term shall be for a term of three years.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1766 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1766 - Meetings

§ 1766. Meetings.   (a) General rule.--The advisory board shall meet at such times as it deems necessary. The board shall visit and inspect and keep in close touch with the management and operation of the joint detention facilities and shall, from time to time, make such recommendations and suggestions to the county commissioners for changes or improvements in the management and operations of the joint detention facilities as may be deemed advisable. It shall also make an annual report to the county commissioners concerning the management and operation of the joint detention facilities.  (b) Administrative support.--The county commissioners shall, at the expense of the counties, provide a meeting place for the board and furnish all supplies and materials necessary to carry on its work.  (c) Reimbursement of expenses.--The members of the board shall not receive any compensation for their services but shall be reimbursed for all actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties, which expenses shall be paid by the counties as part of the cost of maintenance of the joint detention facilities.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1767 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1767 - Chief administrator and employees

§ 1767. Chief administrator and employees.  The county commissioners of the counties may, after consultation with the advisory board, employ a chief administrator and such other employees as may be necessary to conduct and manage properly the joint detention facilities and shall fix their compensation. The duties of those officers shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the joint detention facilities. They shall hold their offices, respectively, at the pleasure of and their compensation shall be fixed by the appointing power.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1768 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1768 - Rules and regulations

§ 1768. Rules and regulations.  The county commissioners of the counties shall, before any inmate may be admitted to the joint detention facilities, after consulting with the advisory board, make general rules and regulations for the management of the joint detention facilities, which rules and regulations shall be effective after they are approved by the department.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1769 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1769 - Initial transfer of inmates

§ 1769. Initial transfer of inmates.  When, in any district formed by counties under this subchapter, the arrangements are complete for the reception of inmates, transfer of all persons who are subject to confinement as provided in this subchapter shall be made to the joint detention facilities of the district.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1770 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1770 - Employment of inmates

§ 1770. Employment of inmates.  An inmate of a joint detention facility under the provisions of this subchapter, unless disqualified by sickness or otherwise, shall be kept at some useful employment as may be suited to the inmate's age and capacity and as may tend to promote the best interest of the inmate. If an inmate refuses to perform the work assigned to the inmate or is guilty of other acts of insubordination, the chief administrator shall punish the inmate in such manner as the rules and regulations provided for may prescribe. The chief administrator shall keep a record of and report to the advisory board all such offenses and punishments.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1771 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1771 - Cost of transporting inmates

§ 1771. Cost of transporting inmates.  The cost of transporting inmates committed to the joint detention facilities shall be paid by the counties, respectively, from which the inmates are committed. The sheriff of the county for inmates committed by the court and constables for inmates committed by magisterial district judges shall receive for the inmates committed to the joint detention facilities no mileage or travel expenses on writs, except the actual cost of transporting the inmates to the joint detention facilities, together with any other fees for their services allowed by law.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1772 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1772 - Financial reporting

§ 1772. Financial reporting.  A detailed statement of the receipt and expenditures by any county constituting a part of the district for joint detention facilities erected under the provisions of this subchapter shall be published by the county commissioners of each county or by the controller in the county. Where the report is published by the controller, it shall be included in the annual statement of the fiscal affairs of such county.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1773 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1773 - Allocation of expenses to counties

§ 1773. Allocation of expenses to counties.   (a) General rule.--The original cost of the site and buildings of the joint detention facilities and the equipment thereof, all additions thereto and all fixed overhead charges in conducting the joint detention facilities shall be paid by the counties constituting the districts in the ratio of their population according to the last preceding United States census.  (b) Inmate expense.--  (1) The cost of the care and maintenance of the inmates in the districts shall be certified monthly to the counties from which inmates have been committed. The cost shall be paid by the counties in proportion to the number of inmates committed from each county. (2) All payments shall be on warrants of the county commissioners, countersigned by the county controller in counties where that office exists.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1774 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1774 - County appropriations

§ 1774. County appropriations.  The county commissioners of each county joining in establishing detention facilities as provided for in this subchapter may make appropriations or incur or increase the indebtedness of the county, in the manner provided by law, to an amount sufficient to pay its proportionate part of the cost of acquiring a site and of erecting, constructing and equipping the joint detention facilities by issuing coupon bonds at a rate of interest not exceeding 7% and payable within 30 years from the date of issue. The county commissioners of the county shall levy an annual tax in an amount necessary to pay interest and sinking fund charges upon such bonds.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1775 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1775 - Exemption from taxation

§ 1775. Exemption from taxation.  All the property, real and personal, authorized to be held by counties under this subchapter shall be exempt from taxation.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1781 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1781 - Establishment by counties

§ 1781. Establishment by counties.  The county commissioners of any two or more counties may join in establishing a joint industrial farm and workhouse for the confinement of: (1) Persons sentenced by the courts of those counties, after conviction, of any misdemeanor or felony, except murder, voluntary manslaughter, rape and arson. (2) Persons who are in default of payment of any fine or penalty, or for nonpayment of costs, or for default in complying with any order of court entered in any prosecution for desertion or nonsupport, or for the violation of any municipal ordinance.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1782 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1782 - Selection of site

§ 1782. Selection of site.  Whenever the commissioners of any two or more counties decide and agree to construct a joint industrial farm and workhouse, they shall acquire a suitable site for the same. The site may be selected from suitable lands already held by any county of the district for county purposes, from lands donated for such purposes or from any quantity of land within the respective districts. In the selection of a site, there shall be taken into consideration the objects and purposes of the joint industrial farm and workhouse and all or as many as practicable of the advantages and resources set forth in this section. The land selected and purchased shall be a varied topography, with natural resources and advantages for many forms of husbandry, fruit growing and stock raising, for brickmaking and for the preparation of all other road and paving material, and shall have good railroad, drainage, sewage and water facilities. Title to the land shall be approved by the county solicitor of the county in which the land is located or such other title guarantee corporation or attorney as may be designated by the commissioners of the counties and shall be taken in the name of the county or counties comprising the district.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1783 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1783 - Buildings

§ 1783. Buildings.  After the selection and acquisition of the sites, the county commissioners of the counties may erect and construct suitable and necessary buildings thereon, repair any buildings already erected and equip the buildings for use and occupancy. All buildings constructed in pursuance of this subchapter shall be plain and inexpensive in character. The labor in constructing such buildings and improvements and facilities shall be supplied by the persons committed to county correctional institutions in the counties or transferred thereto from any county correctional institution, so far as found practicable.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1784 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1784 - Construction contracts

§ 1784. Construction contracts.  Joint industrial farm and workhouse buildings shall be constructed by contract or contracts let by the county commissioners of the counties to the lowest responsible and best bidder, after due advertisement in at least one newspaper, published in each of the counties joining in the erection of the joint industrial farm and workhouse, once a week for four consecutive weeks. When so constructed, the joint industrial farm and workhouse buildings shall be equipped by the county commissioners of the counties at the cost of the counties in the same manner as other county buildings are equipped.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1785 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1785 - Advisory board

§ 1785. Advisory board.  After a joint industrial farm and workhouse has been erected and equipped and is ready for occupancy, the president judges of the courts of common pleas of the counties joining in the construction of the joint industrial farm and workhouse shall appoint an advisory board to consist of three persons from each of the counties. The president judge of each of the counties shall appoint one member of the board to serve for one year, one to serve for two years and one to serve for three years or until their successors are appointed and qualified. All appointments at the expiration of any term shall be for a term of three years.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1786 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1786 - Meetings

§ 1786. Meetings.   (a) General rule.--The advisory board shall meet monthly and at such other times as may be deemed necessary. The board shall visit and inspect and keep in close touch with the management and operation of the joint industrial farm and workhouse and shall, from time to time, make such recommendations and suggestions to the county commissioners for changes or improvements in the management and operations of the joint industrial farm and workhouse as may be deemed advisable. It shall also make an annual report to the county commissioners concerning the management and operation of the industrial farm and workhouse.  (b) Administrative support.--The county commissioners shall, at the expense of the counties, provide a meeting place for the board and furnish all supplies and materials necessary to carry on its work.  (c) Reimbursement of expenses.--The members of the board shall not receive any compensation for their services but shall be allowed all actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties, which shall be paid by the counties as part of the cost of maintenance of the joint industrial farm and workhouse.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1787 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1787 - Chief administrator and employees

§ 1787. Chief administrator and employees.  The county commissioners of the counties may, after consultation with the advisory board, employ a chief administrator and such other employees as may be necessary to conduct and manage properly the joint industrial farm and workhouse and shall fix their compensation. The duties of those officers shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the joint industrial farm and workhouse.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1788 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1788 - Rules and regulations

§ 1788. Rules and regulations.  The county commissioners of the counties shall, before any inmate may be admitted to the joint industrial farm and workhouse, after consulting with the advisory board, make general rules and regulations for the management of the joint industrial farm and workhouse.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1789 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1789 - Initial transfer of inmates

§ 1789. Initial transfer of inmates.   (a) General rule.--When, in any district formed by the counties, the arrangements are complete for the reception of inmates, transfer shall be made from the county correctional institutions to the joint industrial farm and workhouse of the district of all persons: (1) Who have been sentenced to any of the county correctional institutions for any misdemeanor or felony, except murder, voluntary manslaughter, rape and arson. (2) Who have been committed to any of the county correctional institutions in default of payment of any fine or penalty, or for nonpayment of costs, or for default in complying with any order of court entered in any prosecution for desertion or nonsupport. (3) Legally confined in any of the county correctional institutions, except those that are confined awaiting trial or held as material witnesses.  (b) Persons eligible to become inmates.--  (1) When any person is convicted in any court in any county of any offense classified as a misdemeanor or felony, except murder, voluntary manslaughter, rape and arson, the punishment of which is or may be imprisonment in any county correctional institution for a period of ten days or more, the court may sentence such person to a joint industrial farm and workhouse of the Commonwealth. (2) Courts of record and courts not of record of any county in this Commonwealth may commit to the joint industrial farm and workhouse all persons who might be lawfully committed to the county correctional institution on charges of vagrancy, drunkenness or disorderly conduct, for default or nonpayment of any costs, fine or penalty, for default in complying with any order of court entered in any prosecution for desertion or nonsupport or for violations of municipal ordinances, where, in any such case, the commitment will be for a period of ten days or more.  (c) Existing county correctional institutions.--The existing county correctional institutions may be retained to confine persons awaiting trial, held as material witnesses or sentenced for a period of less than ten days, and such number of other convicted persons as may be required to perform the necessary institutional maintenance work.  (d) Clothing and treatment.--All inmates shall be clothed and treated as provided for in this subchapter and in the rules and regulations of the joint industrial farm and workhouse.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1790 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1790 - Employment of inmates

§ 1790. Employment of inmates.   (a) General rule.--An inmate committed to a joint industrial farm and workhouse under the provisions of this subchapter, unless disqualified by sickness or otherwise, shall be kept at some useful employment as may be suited to the inmate's age and capacity and as may be most profitable to the joint industrial farm and workhouse and tend to promote the best interest of the inmate. If an inmate refuses to perform the work assigned to the inmate or is guilty of other acts of insubordination, the chief administrator shall punish the inmate in such manner as the rules and regulations provided for may prescribe. The chief administrator shall keep a record of and report to the advisory board all such offenses and punishments.  (b) Pay schedule and inmate accounts.--All inmates shall receive compensation for their work. (1) Those inmates employed on institutional maintenance and nonproductive labor shall receive not more than 20¢ per day and not less than 10¢ per day. (2) Those inmates employed on productive work shall receive not more than 50¢ per day and not less than 20¢ per day. (3) The earnings of an inmate shall be credited to the inmate's account, and disbursements made on approval of the chief administrator of the institution and the written order of the inmate, except, when an inmate is committed for nonsupport, the court which sentenced the prisoner shall order payment of the earnings. At time of release or discharge, the inmate shall receive all moneys remaining in the inmate's account and give receipt for the same.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1791 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1791 - Cost of transporting inmates

§ 1791. Cost of transporting inmates.   (a) General rule.--The cost of transporting inmates committed to the joint industrial farms and workhouses shall be paid by the counties, respectively, from which the inmates are committed. The sheriff of the county for inmates committed by the court and constables for inmates committed by magisterial district judges shall receive for the inmates committed to the joint industrial farm and workhouse no mileage or travel expenses on writs, except the actual cost of transporting the inmates so committed to the joint industrial farm and workhouse, together with any other fees for their services allowed by law.  (b) Railroad ticket upon discharge.--When an inmate is discharged from a joint industrial farm and workhouse, the chief administrator thereof shall procure for the inmate a railroad ticket to any point to which the inmate may desire to go, not farther from the joint industrial farm and workhouse than the point from which the inmate was sentenced.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1792 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1792 - Nature of inmate employment

§ 1792. Nature of inmate employment.  A joint industrial farm and workhouse shall employ the inmates committed or transferred thereto in work on or about the buildings and farm and in growing produce, raising stock, etc., for supplies for its own use, the use of the several city and county or county correctional institutions in the district, any political division thereof or any public or charitable institution owned or managed and directed by the counties constituting the district or any political division thereof. Inmates may also be employed in the preparation of road material, in making brick, tile and concrete or other road building material and in the manufacture of other products and materials as may be found practicable for the use of any of the counties constituting the district and for the proper and healthful employment of the inmates.
61 PA Cons Stat § 1793 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE|Chapter 17 - County Correctional Institutions|Section 1793 - Sale of goods and materials

§ 1793. Sale of goods and materials.  All road material, brick, tile, concrete and other goods and materials prepared or made at a joint industrial farm and workhouse that are not needed for the purposes of the joint industrial farm and workhouse shall be offered for sale at a price to be fixed by the commissioners of the district. In offering such material for sale, preference shall be given to the counties forming the district of the joint industrial farm and workhouse and to the cities, boroughs and townships in the joint district. All moneys so received shall be applied toward paying the overhead expenses of the joint industrial farm and workhouse.