The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58)Pennsylvania Prison Society
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The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58)
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Charities -- Periodicals; Prisons -- Periodicals
(_c_) The furnishing of instructions in personal and social hygiene
to the inmates of all institutions within its jurisdiction, and of
instruction in professional training to such officials, employees,
or inmates of such institutions as may be called upon to serve
as assistants, nurses, or otherwise, in the medical or hospital
departments thereof;
(_d_) The frequent inspection of the institutions within its
jurisdiction with respect to their sanitary and hygienic condition, the
adequacy of their medical and hospital equipment, and the competency
and efficiency of their medical service; and,
(_e_) The installation and supervision of a proper dietary adequate to
the maintenance of the health, efficiency, and morale, of the inmates
in all institutions within its jurisdiction.
SECTION 8. The system of correctional and reformatory education which
the Committee on Delinquency is by this Act required to institute,
maintain, and supervise shall include:--
(_a_) The prescription and maintenance of standards of correctional and
reformatory education in all institutions within its jurisdiction and
the determination of the qualifications of those selected as teachers;
and,
(_b_) The education in elementary branches of illiterate and
undeveloped inmates of such institutions; the instruction of all
inmates of such institutions in the principles, organization, and
practice of American government; and the furnishing of a thorough
industrial training to any of the inmates of such institutions for whom
such training shall be deemed useful and desirable.
SECTION 9. With respect to the labor of the inmates of any institutions
within its jurisdiction to which persons are committed for crime or
delinquency, the Committee on Delinquency shall have the power and its
duty shall be:--
(_a_) To require every such institution to afford to the inmates
thereof, who are physically capable, an opportunity to perform useful
labor in such institutions;
(_b_) To determine what industries shall be established in such
institutions and to regulate and supervise the installation of
machinery and equipment therein;
(_c_) To establish rules and regulations for the employment of inmates
of such institutions at road-building, quarrying, or crushing stone,
agricultural work, land reclamation, or forestry, or other suitable
work outside of such institution; and,
(_d_) To establish rules with regard to the number of hours per day
during which such inmates shall be employed; Provided, That except in
agricultural work such inmates shall not be employed for more than
eight hours in any one day.
SECTION 10. With respect to the labor of inmates of such of the
institutions within its jurisdiction as are owned or managed and
controlled by the Commonwealth or any political sub-division thereof,
the committee shall, in addition to the powers and duties enumerated in
the preceding section of this act, have the power and its duty shall
be:--
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