PRINTER'S NO. 4010
No. 2884 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, JOSEPHS, YOUNGBLOOD, STABACK, HORSEY AND
THOMAS, OCTOBER 7, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 7, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, prohibiting the detention
3 of children in jails.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6327(c) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 6327. Place of detention.
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10 (c) Detention in jail prohibited.--It is unlawful for any
11 person in charge of or employed by a jail knowingly to receive
12 for detention or to detain in the jail any person whom he has or
13 should have reason to believe is a child [unless, in a criminal
14 proceeding, the child has been charged with or has been found
15 guilty of an act set forth in paragraph (2)(i), (ii), (iii) or
16 (v) of the definition of "delinquent act" in section 6302
17 (relating to definitions)].
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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