One Year of Pennsylvania's New Classification Program
Abstract
One Year of Pennsylvania's New Classification Program SAGE Publications, Inc.1954DOI: 10.1177/003288555403400203 Kenneth E.Taylor Department of Justice Harrisburg, Pa. One year has passed since the seven major penal institutions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were consolidated in a Bureau of Correction under the supervision and guidance of a Commissioner of Correction. Along with the provisions for this Bureau and a goodly number of other major penal reforms in the legislation enacted in 1953 were enabling laws for the formation of two Correctional Diagnostic and Classification Centers, one in Philadelphia, the other in Pittsburgh, under the administrative control of a Deputy Commissioner for Treatment. The only other specifically designated duty of this position was the sole responsibility for transferring adult male inmates from one institution to another. Legally it would appear as if this were an extremely limited position. However, the Commissioner of Correction, in keeping with the sweeping powers granted to him, required that each institution have a correctional treatment program coordinated by the Deputy Commissioner for Treatment, administered by the Warden or Superintendent, but directed and controlled in each instance by an appointed Director of Treatment, who, as it has turned out, was chosen because of his training