71 Pa. Stat. § 1493
The Prison Labor Commission, created by the act, approved the first day of June, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and fifteen (Pamphlet Laws, six hundred and fifty-six), entitled "An act providing a system of employment and compensation for the inmates of the Eastern Penitentiary, Western Penitentiary, and the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon, and for such other correctional institutions as shall be hereafter established by the Commonwealth, and making an appropriation therefor," is hereby abolished, but no act or part of any act repealed by the said act creating the Prison Labor Commission shall be hereby revived.
All the powers conferred upon the Prison Labor Commission are hereby vested in the department.
71 P.S. § 1493