62 Pa. Stat. § 353
The department may select as campers young men fifteen to eighteen years of age, who have been committed to any youth development center or whose commitment as campers is recommended by a classification and assignment center of the department and whose rehabilitation will be furthered by forestry work.
The department may also accept as campers, boys, fifteen to eighteen years of age, who have been committed to an institution and whose transfer to a camp is recommended by the institution and approved by the committing juvenile court. The department may return campers to the institution from which they were received for reasons of health, security or morale. The committing juvenile court shall be notified promptly of such action and a full explanation in writing shall be provided the committing court and the institution. No forestry camp shall receive a boy as a camper unless an order of commitment accompanies him. When a boy is transferred from a forestry camp to an institution, the order of commitment shall accompany him.
62 P.S. § 353