11 Pa. Stat. § 721
All jailers, prisonkeepers, wardens, managers, and their and each and every of their deputies, having control or charge of any reformatory, house of refuge, or other institution for juvenile delinquents or juvenile convicts, now in existence or hereafter to be created within this commonwealth, be and the same are hereby empowered and directed to receive into such reformatory, house of correction, or other institution for juvenile delinquents or juvenile convicts, all persons convicted and sentenced by any circuit or district court of the United States in and for the eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania of any criminal offense, when by virtue of the laws of this commonwealth they are now empowered or directed, or may hereafter be empowered or directed, to receive juvenile delinquents or convicts convicted and sentenced in courts of oyer and terminer or quarter sessions of the peace in and for this commonwealth, or committed to any such reform institution by a magistrate, alderman, or justice of the peace, or other judicial officer of this commonwealth having power to so commit: Provided, That no such convict shall be so admitted unless residing within this commonwealth.
11 P.S. § 721