Vacancies in the board to be filled by the Governor.

Removals for

misconduct, &c.

Charge and management of the reformatory.

Principal officers.

Subordinate officers.

provided by lot that the terms of members shall terminate respectively at the end of two, four, six, eight and ten years, and they shall be so classified that the terms of the original appointees shall expire every second year. Whenever vacancies shall occur in the said board of managers, such vacancies, for the unexpired terms thereof, shall be filled by the appointment of the Governor, in such manner that the principle of rotation as aforesaid shall be maintained. The Governor may remove any of the managers for misconduct, incompetency, or neglect of duty, after opportunity shall be given him or them to be heard upon written charges.

SECTION 2. The said board of managers shall, when appointed as aforesaid, have the charge and management of the said reformatory. They shall appoint a general superintendent, chaplain, and physician, and shall have power to remove them for causes impairing their faithful and intelligent administration of their office, after opportunity shall be given to the officer so charged to be heard upn written charges. All other officers and employés shall be appointed and selected by the general superintendent and shall be removable at his pleasure, and all such subordinate officers shall be appointed only after rigid examination as to their education, trade, knowledge, moral character and fitness for the care and custody of those persons, who may be assigned to the instruction and guardianship of said reCompensation of all formatory. The annual compensation of the general superintendent, the several officers and other employés shall be fixed by the board of managers in their discreManagers forbidden tion, and said managers are hereby forbidden to solicit, or request, or in any way interfere with any appointment of any subordinate.

Examination as to qualifications.

officers to be fixed

by the board of

managers.

to interfere with appointment of subordinates.

Managers to examine all accounts and report quarterly to the Governor.

SECTION 3. The board of managers shall examine all the accounts and expenditures, with the vouchers for the same, relating to the business of the reformatory at least once each quarter year, and shall certify the same, with their approval or disapproval, to the Governor. Annual report to the And they shall, at least once in each year, report to the Legislature, through the Governor, the condition of the said reformatory, their proceedings in regard to inmates, with a detailed statement of all moneys expended, together with such recommendations as they shall deem proper.

Legislature.

Contents of such report.

Criminal courts authorized to sentence certain male criminals between the ages of 15 and 25 years to the reformatory.

SECTION 4. Any court in this Commonwealth, exercising criminal jurisdiction, may sentence to the said reformatory any male criminal, between the ages of fif teen and twenty-five years and not known to have been previously sentenced to a State prison in this or any other State or country, upon the conviction in such court of such male person of a crime punishable under Managers to receive existing laws in a State prison. And the said board of

and retain such

criminals.

managers shall receive and take into said reformatory all male prisoners of the class aforesaid, who shall be legally sentenced on conviction as aforesaid; and all

existing laws requiring the courts of this Commonwealth to sentence to the State prison male prisoners convicted of any criminal offense between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five years, and not known to have been previously sentenced to a State prison in this Commonwealth, or any other State or country, shall be applicable to the said reformatory, so far as to enable courts to sentence the class of prisoners so last defined to said reformatory and not to a State prison.

SECTION 5. Any person, who shall be convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment in the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon and who, upon such conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment therein, shall be imprisoned according to this act and not otherwise.

SECTION 6. Every sentence to the reformatory, of a person hereafter convicted of a felony or other crime, shall be a general sentence to imprisonment in the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon, and the courts of this Commonwealth imposing such sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof. The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the board of managers of the reformatory, as authorized by this act; but such imprisonment shall not exceed the maxi mum term, provided by law, for the crime for which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.

SECTION 7. Whenever there is unoccupied room in the reformatory, the board of managers may make requisitions upon the inspectors of State prisons, who shall select such number as is required by such requisition from among the youthful, well-behaved, and most promising convicts in the State prisons of the class described in section four of this act, and transfer them to the reformatory for education and treatment under the rules and regulations thereof; and the board of managers are hereby authorized to receive and detain, during the term of their sentence to the State prison, such prisoners so transferred; and the laws applicable to convicts in the State prison, so far as they relate to the commutation of imprisonment for good conduct, and the provisions of this act, shall be applicable to said convicts, when transferred under this section.

SECTION 8. Every clerk of any court by which a criminal shall be sentenced to the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon shall furnish to the officer having such criminal in charge a record containing the trial and conviction of the defendant; and the clerk of the court shall receive such compensation as is now allowed by law for making and certifying to the record as in other criminal cases.

SECTION 9. That, when any person has been convicted and sentenced, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county in which the person has been so convicted and sentenced, to deliver the said person to the proper 5 LAWS.

Certain inmates of

the reformatory

temporarily to the State prison.

officer or officers of said reformatory institution at Huntingdon.

SECTION 10. The board of managers shall have the may be transferred power to transfer temporarily to the State prison of the proper district any prisoner who, subsequent to his committal, shall be shown to their satisfaction to have been, at the time of his conviction, more than twenty-five years of age, or to have been previously convicted of crime; and may also so transfer any apparently incorrigible prisoner, whose presence in the reformatory appears to be seriously detrimental to the well being of And recalled to the the institution. And such managers may, by written

reformatory.

Board of managers to make rules and regulations for the government of the reformatory.

Aim and purpose of the reformatory.

authorized to establish industrial schools.

labor prohibited.

requisitions, require the return to the reformatory of any person who may have been so transferred. The said board of managers shall also have power to make all rules and regulations necessary and proper, and not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, for the employment, discipline, instruction, education, removal, and absolute, temporary, or conditional release of all convicts in said reformatory, and shall have authority to prevent the escape of convicts at all hazards.

SECTION 11. As the aim and purposes of the industrial reformatory is to prevent young first offenders against the laws of the State from becoming criminals, and to subject them while in custody in this reformatory to such remedial, preventative treatment, training, and instruction as may make them honest, reputable citizens, Board of managers the board of managers is authorized and hereby empowered to establish, by rules and regulations governing the superintendent and other officers, such a system of discipline for the inmates as will secure to each instruction in the rudiments of an English education, and in such manual, handicraft, skilled vocations as may be useful to each of the inmates after his discharge from the reformatory, whereby said person will be able to Contract system of obtain self-supporting employment. The contract system of labor shall not exist in any form whatever in said reformatory, but the prisoners shall be employed by the Commonwealth. It shall be the duty of said board of managers to maintain such control over all prisoners committed to their custody as shall prevent them from committing crime, best secure their selfsupport, and accomplish their reformation. When any prisoner shall be received into the reformatory upon direct sentence thereto, they shall cause to be entered in a register the date of such admission, the name, age, nativity, and nationality of the prisoner, with such facts as can be ascertained of parentage, of early social influences as seem to indicate the constitutional and acquired defects and tendencies of the prisoner, and, based upon these, an estimate of the then present condition of the prisoner, and the best probable plan of treatment. Upon such register shall be entered, quarterly, yearly, or oftener, minutes of observed improvement,

Self-support and self-respect to be encouraged.

Register of date of age, &c., &c., to be

admission, name,

kept.

Improvement, &c., to be carefully noted and recorded.

or deterioration of character, and notes as to methods and treatment employed; also all orders, or alterations, affecting the standing or situation of such prisoner, the circumstances of the final release, and any subsequent facts of the personal history, which may be brought to their knowledge.

be

man

A

uniform plan for conduct, &c., as the condition of inrelease, shall be

keeping a record of

crease privilege or

adopted.

Each inmate to be with the record he makes for himself.. Abstract of such semi-annually and the Secretary of the

credited or charged

record to be made

filed in the office of

Commonwealth.

abstract.

SECTION 12. The board of managers shall, under a system of marks or otherwise, fix upon a uniform plan, under which they shall determine what number of marks or what credit shall be earned by each prisoner sentenced under the provisions of this act, as the condition of increased privilege, or of release from their control, which system shall be subject to revision from time to time. Each prisoner so sentenced shall be credited for good personal demeanor, diligence in labor and study, and for results accomplished, and charged for derelictions, negligences and offenses. An abstract of the record in the case of each prisoner, remaining under control of the said board of managers, shall be made up semi-annually, considered by the agers at a regular meeting and filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth; which abstract shall show the Contents of such date of admission, the age and the then present situation, whether in the reformatory, State prison, asylum, or elsewhere, whether any and how much progress of improvement has been made, and the reason for release, or continued custody as the case may be. The managers shall establish rules and regulations by which the standing of each prisoner's account of marks or credit shall be made known to him, as often as once a month and oftener, if he shall at any time request it, and may make provisions by which any prisoner may see and converse with some one of said managers during every month. When it appears to the said managers that there is a strong or reasonable probability that any prisoner will live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his release is not incompatible with the welfare of society, then they shall issue to such prisoner on absolute release from imprisonment, in the form provided in section fourteen of this act, and shall certificate of facts certify the fact of such release and the grounds thereof to be sent to the to the Governor; and the Governor may thereupon in his discretion restore such person to citizenship. But no petition or other form of application for the release of any prisoner shall be entertained by the managers. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair the power of the Governor to grant a pardon or commutation in any case.

SECTION 13. If, through oversight or otherwise, any person be sentenced to imprisonment in the said reformatory for a definite period of time, said sentence shall not for that reason be void, but the person so sentenced shall be entitled to the benefit and subject to the liabilities of this act, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the sentence had been in the terms

Inmates to be informed of their allowed to confer

standing, and to be

with the managers.

When board of

managers may re

lease inmates from

imprisonment.

Governor.

Petitions for release tained.

not to be enter

Governor may

commute sentence or pardon.

Sentence for a

void, but provisions of this act to be ap

definite period not

plicable.

such inmates with a

copy of this act, &c.

Managers to furnish required by section six of this act, and, in such case, Said managers shall deliver to such offender a copy of this act and written information of his relation to said managers.

Proceedings for obtaining a discharge from the reformatory.

of managers.

SECTION 14. When, in the opinion of the superintentendent, after due investigation, and obtaining the opinion of the physician and moral instructor, any person confined in the reformatory has given such evidence, as is deemed reliable and trustworthy, that such person has been so improved by his treatment in said reformatory as to justify his liberation, a certificate of the fact and the opinions of the superintendent, doctor and moral instructor, under their hands and seals, shall be Duties of the board submitted to the board of managers; when, after due notice to all the managers at the next meeting thereafter, said board shall consider the case of the person so presented; and when the said board shall determine that such person is entitled to his discharge, said board shall cause a record of the case of such person to be made, showing the date of his commitment to the reformatory, the time he has been detained, the cause thereof, a copy of his sentence, the copy of the certificate as aforesaid of the officers and the action thereon of the board, said record to be signed by the managers and sent to the judge of the court that sentenced said persons to the reformatory, who shall, after consulting Duties of the judge. the district attorney and no further reason for detention existing, send, under the seal of the court, to the said board, an order to discharge the said person from said reformatory.

Record of the case to be made.

And sent to the judge of proper cqunty.

Duty of the clerk of the reformatory.

SECTION 15. The clerk of the reformatory shall accurately keep a list of persons received, together with a table, under the following heads, giving the statements made by each person received at the time of reception, to be corrected, from time to time, as the superintendent, the physician and moral instructor may obtain fuller information from these persons during thier custody.