(a) General rule.--The chief administrator of a county correctional institution shall permit the employment of such inmates serving sentences therein, as they shall deem advisable, at agricultural labor on any county farm of the county under the direction of any person appointed by the chief administrator, and all inmates so employed shall at all times be amenable to restraint, discipline and punishment in the same manner as if they were confined in the county correctional institution.
(b) Liability.--No person appointed by a chief administrator of a county correctional institution or his sureties shall be held liable on any bond conditioned for the safekeeping of persons given into that person's care, in case any inmate so employed shall escape, if due care and diligence has been exercised in the discharge of the duties imposed on that person.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Section 3101 - Inmates to be employed
Section 3102 - Disposition of proceeds of labor
Section 3103 - Agricultural labor at county correctional institutions
Section 3104 - Inmate labor in county correctional institutions
Section 3105 - Inmate labor in counties of the first class
Section 3106 - Inmate-made goods to be branded
Section 3107 - Sale of inmate-made goods
Section 3121 - Inmates to be employed
Section 3122 - Manufacturing Fund
Section 3123 - Deposit of sales receipts
Section 3124 - Inmates accounts
Section 3125 - Remainder of inmate accounts