Pennsylvania Act 2000-122 — CONVICTS AND PRISONERS - AMEND

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CONVICTS AND PRISONERS - AMEND
                 Act of Dec. 20, 2000, P.L. 916, No. 122              Cl. 61
                             Session of 2000
                               No. 2000-122

     HB 2014

                                  AN ACT

     Amending the act of July 22, 1913 (P.L.912, No.437), entitled
        "An act providing for the payment of the costs incurred in
        the trial of convicts and prisoners escaping, or attempting
        to escape, from the several penitentiaries and reformatories
        of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by the respective
        counties from whose courts the said escaping convicts or
        prisoners have been committed; and providing for the
        maintenance of such convicts under sentence for escape, et
        cetera," further providing for maintenance of escaping
        convicts under new sentence; providing for criminal offense
        during confinement; and making a repeal.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Section 3 of the act of July 22, 1913 (P.L.912,
     No.437), entitled "An act providing for the payment of the costs
     incurred in the trial of convicts and prisoners escaping, or
     attempting to escape, from the several penitentiaries and
     reformatories of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by the
     respective counties from whose courts the said escaping convicts
     or prisoners have been committed; and providing for the
     maintenance of such convicts under sentence for escape, et
     cetera," is amended to read:
      Section 3.  Maintenance of escaping convicts under new
                sentence.
        (a)  County jurisdiction.--In case of conviction and sentence
     of said escaping convicts and prisoners, under the jurisdiction
     of the county, the costs of maintenance of said convicts, and
     prisoners, under such new sentence, shall be borne by the county
     from which said convict or prisoner shall have been originally
     committed.
        (b)  State jurisdiction.--In case of conviction and sentence
     of said escaping convicts and prisoners, under the jurisdiction
     of the Commonwealth, the costs of maintenance of said convicts
     and prisoners, under such new sentence, shall be borne by the
     Commonwealth.
        (c)  Additional police expenses.--Any additional police
     expenses incurred by a political subdivision as a result of the
     escape of a convict or prisoner, under the jurisdiction of the
     Commonwealth, shall be borne by the Commonwealth.
        Section 2.  The act is amended by adding a section to read:
      Section 4.  Criminal offense during confinement.
        Where a person is confined in a State penal or correctional
     institution either by virtue of his sentence pursuant to his
     conviction or plea of guilty to a criminal charge or by virtue
     of a commitment issued by any court of the Commonwealth having
     jurisdiction and while so confined any such person commits a
     criminal offense and is subsequently convicted or enters a plea
     of guilty thereto, the expenses of keeping such person in any
     State penal or correctional institution pursuant to such
     subsequent conviction or plea of guilty shall be borne by the
     Commonwealth.
        Section 3.  The act of May 17, 1957 (P.L.161, No.75),
     entitled "An act designating the counties responsible for the
     upkeep of certain convicts in penal or correctional
     institutions," is repealed.
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

     APPROVED--The 20th day of December, A. D. 2000.

     THOMAS J. RIDGE