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37 Pa. Code § 97.108. Confinement in a State correctional institution.

§ 97.108. Confinement in a State correctional institution.

 (a)  The Department will accommodate requests to conduct sentencing proceedings for persons committed to its custody by means of videoconferencing or teleconferencing subject to equipment and staff availability. A defendant who is not sentenced by means of videoconferencing or teleconferencing, but is sentenced to a DOTP following an evaluation and recommendation by the Department, shall be delivered to the institution the Department has designated for reception of inmates from the committing county. The defendant will be considered to be a participant upon receipt by the Department.

 (b)  The participant will be required to begin his individual DOTP while housed in a State correctional institution and may be required to begin additional programming intended to address other treatment needs identified during the participant’s incarceration.



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