Metzger, 042332 PAAGO, AGO 47

• Case Date: April 23, 1932
• Court: Pennsylvania

Honorable Leon D. Metzger, AGO 47 Opinion No. 47 Pennsylvania Attorney General Opinions Opinions Of The Attorney General April 23, 1932          Criminal procedure—Female offenders—Sentence to State Industrial Home for Women—Act of July 25, 1913, Sec. 15—Power of court to transfer to another penal institution.          A court of quarter sessions which has sentenced a female defendant to the State Industrial Home for Women in accordance with section fifteen of the Act of July 2, 1915, P. L. 1311, as amended by the Act of May 14, 1925, P. L. 697, is without authority to transfer the prisoner from that institution to the county jail of the county in which she was convicted, or to any other penal institution.          Honorable Leon D. Metzger,          Deputy Secretary of Revenue,          Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.          Sir: We have your request to be advised whether a court of quarter sessions which has sentenced a woman to the State Industrial Home for Women has the power to order the woman transferred from the Industrial Home for Women to the county jail of the county in which she was convicted.          Prior to the effective date of the Act of June 22, 1931, P. L. 859, women were sentenced to the State Industrial Home for Women under Section 15 of the Act of July 25, 1913, P. L. 1311, as amended by the Act of May 11, 1925, P. L. 697.          This section provided that all women under twenty-five years of age must be sentenced to confinement in the State Industrial Home for Women without term; and, in the case of women over twenty-five years of age, sentences were required to be as provided by the so-called "Ludlow Act."          Women sentenced when less than twenty-five years of age could not be confined longer than three years in the State...