Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 8125. Control; inspection and supervision; training and employment; superintendent

Such institution shall be under the control of the prison authorities of the county or counties establishing such institution, subject to the inspection and supervision of the Department of Welfare  1 as in the case of county institutions supervised by such department as provided by the Administrative Code  2 and by an act approved the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (Pamphlet Laws, one thousand one hundred forty-four), entitled “An act creating a Department of Public Welfare; defining its powers and duties; abolishing the Board of Public Charities, the Committee on Lunacy, and the Prison Labor Commission, and all offices thereunder, and vesting all the powers of said board, committee and commission in the Department of Public Welfare; requiring all reports, notices, statements, or matters, heretofore required to be made, given, or submitted to the Board of Public Charities or the Committee on Lunacy, to be made, given, or submitted to the Department of Public Welfare; and providing penalties.”  3 The prison authorities shall provide a system of treatment, training, employment and instruction in such institution as may be useful to the inmates thereof, and shall appoint a woman superintendent of such institution, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the prison authorities.