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Title 47 - Prisons and Pris...
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Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Pr...
Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners
§ 47-1-1. Enforcement of sentences
§ 47-1-3. County convicts; duty of board of supervisors
§ 47-1-5. County convicts; board of supervisors may lease or buy suitable lands
§ 47-1-7. Boards of supervisors of contiguous counties may own farm jointly; working prisoners in another county
§ 47-1-9. Convicts may be worked on public roads or other county public works
§ 47-1-11. Convicts physically unable shall not be required to work
§ 47-1-13. By contract county may work under guard certain prisoners before indictment and conviction
§ 47-1-15. Deductions from sentence for efficient work
§ 47-1-17. When convict not credited with wages
§ 47-1-19. Leasing or hiring convicts unlawful; lawful public service work
§ 47-1-21. Sheriff to keep a jail docket; what to contain
§ 47-1-23. The sexes to be kept separate
§ 47-1-25. Officers to have access to convicts
§ 47-1-27. Maltreatment forbidden
§ 47-1-29. Complaint of convicts investigated
§ 47-1-31. Grand jury to examine records and treatment of prisoners
§ 47-1-33. Each convict to have evidence of term of sentence and amount of fine
§ 47-1-35. County farms operating at loss, disposition of
§ 47-1-37. Board of supervisors may hire additional labor to work on county farm
§ 47-1-39. Municipal prison and prisoners; municipality to pay expenses of jail officer education courses
§ 47-1-41. Working of municipal prisoners
§ 47-1-43. Keeping of county offenders in municipal jails pending trial
§ 47-1-45. Board of supervisors may agree with municipalities of the county on terms of working municipal convicts
§ 47-1-47. Credit allowed for labor of convicts; treatment
§ 47-1-49. Control over jails owned jointly by municipalities and counties
§ 47-1-51. Jointly owned jails; jail supplies
§ 47-1-55. Jointly owned jails; guards
§ 47-1-57. Furnishing of medical aid to prisoners; nurse screening for county prisoner for nonemergency medical complaints
§ 47-1-59. Hospitalization of prisoners; expenses
§ 47-1-61. Penalty for failure to discharge convict
§ 47-1-63. Residency of prisoner as affected by incarceration in facility of Department of Corrections