County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners

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Section
47-1-1

Enforcement of sentences

Section
47-1-3

County convicts; duty of board of supervisors

Section
47-1-5

County convicts; board of supervisors may lease or buy suitable lands

Section
47-1-7

Boards of supervisors of contiguous counties may own farm jointly; working prisoners in another county

Section
47-1-9

Convicts may be worked on public roads or other county public works

Section
47-1-11

Convicts physically unable shall not be required to work

Section
47-1-13

By contract county may work under guard certain prisoners before indictment and conviction

Section
47-1-15

Deductions from sentence for efficient work

Section
47-1-17

When convict not credited with wages

Section
47-1-19

Leasing or hiring convicts unlawful; lawful public service work

Section
47-1-21

Sheriff to keep a jail docket; what to contain

Section
47-1-23

The sexes to be kept separate

Section
47-1-25

Officers to have access to convicts

Section
47-1-27

Maltreatment forbidden

Section
47-1-29

Complaint of convicts investigated

Section
47-1-31

Grand jury to examine records and treatment of prisoners

Section
47-1-33

Each convict to have evidence of term of sentence and amount of fine

Section
47-1-35

County farms operating at loss, disposition of

Section
47-1-37

Board of supervisors may hire additional labor to work on county farm

Section
47-1-39

Municipal prison and prisoners; municipality to pay expenses of jail officer education courses

Section
47-1-41

Working of municipal prisoners

Section
47-1-43

Keeping of county offenders in municipal jails pending trial

Section
47-1-45

Board of supervisors may agree with municipalities of the county on terms of working municipal convicts

Section
47-1-47

Credit allowed for labor of convicts; treatment

Section
47-1-49

Control over jails owned jointly by municipalities and counties

Section
47-1-51

Jointly owned jails; jail supplies

Section
47-1-53

§ 47-1-53.

Section
47-1-55

Jointly owned jails; guards

Section
47-1-57

Furnishing of medical aid to prisoners; nurse screening for county prisoner for nonemergency medical complaints

Section
47-1-59

Hospitalization of prisoners; expenses

Section
47-1-61

Penalty for failure to discharge convict

Section
47-1-63

Residency of prisoner as affected by incarceration in facility of Department of Corrections