{"data":{"id":"us-pa/61-pa.c.s.-102","jurisdiction":"us-pa","citation":"61 Pa.C.S. § 102","heading":"Definitions.","body":"The following words and phrases when used in this title shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:\n\"Board.\" The Pennsylvania Parole Board.\n\"Chief administrator.\" The warden, superintendent or other officer in charge of a correctional institution.\n\"City department.\" The department of human services of a city of the first class, or such other agency of a city of the first class as shall be determined by a mayor of the city.\n\"Commission.\" The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing.\n\"Correctional institution.\" A State correctional institution or a county correctional institution.\n\"Corrections officer.\" A person employed at a correctional institution to provide any security or custodial service for inmates.\n\"County correctional institution.\" A correctional facility, prison or jail owned or operated by a county.\n\"Department.\" The Department of Corrections of the Commonwealth.\n\"Inmate.\" A person committed to a term of imprisonment or otherwise confined under the custody of the Commonwealth or a county in a correctional institution in accordance with law.\n\"Offender.\" An individual that has been convicted or found guilty of a criminal offense by a judge or jury or an individual that pleads guilty or nolo contendere to a criminal offense at any time in a court of record or before a magisterial district justice under section 6138(a)(1.1) (relating to violation of terms of parole).\n\"Parole violator center.\" An area within the secure perimeter or on the grounds of a State correctional institution or any contracted facility or contracted county jail that has been designated to house offenders detained or recommitted by the board for a technical parole violation.\n\"Prescribed programming.\" An individualized treatment plan that is part of the correctional plan jointly developed by the department and the board following a diagnostic evaluation and risk and needs assessment that includes a structured set of evidence-based treatment curriculums designed to reduce the risk of reoffense by an offender.\n\"Secretary.\" The Secretary of Corrections of the Commonwealth.\n\"State correctional institution.\" A correctional facility, prison or jail owned or operated by the Commonwealth.","path":["Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE","PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS","CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM\u0026ttl=61\u0026div=0\u0026chpt=1\u0026sctn=2\u0026subsctn=0","current_through":"2026-08-31 (Statute Update stamp, 61 Pa.C.S.)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T16:34:38Z","sha256":"dd9105fbbae07088eec19ac288fc790351aefb882c4307167d046809190007d4","source_id":"us-pa","stale":false,"prev":"us-pa/61-pa.c.s.-101","next":"us-pa/61-pa.c.s.-1101"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}