§28-3-12. Transfer of girls from Industrial Home to penitentiary and vice versa.
In any case where a girl is committed to the Industrial Home for an offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, and it is found by the state commissioner of public institutions that such home is unable to benefit such girl, and that her presence is a detriment or menace to the other girls in the institution, or to the general good of the home, she may be returned to the custody of the court by which she was committed to the home, and thereupon the court shall pass such sentence upon her as to confinement in the penitentiary as may be proper in the premises, or as it might have passed had it not committed such girl to the Industrial Home. The governor shall have power, when, in the judgment of the warden of the penitentiary and of the superintendent of the Industrial Home, it is advisable, to remit the penalty of any girl under the age of eighteen years who is confined in the penitentiary, to a commitment to said Industrial Home, there to be kept until she is twenty-one years of age, unless sooner paroled or discharged, or, upon the order of the governor, returned to the penitentiary.