§ 41-2-129. Wages or Salary of Employed Prisoners — Liability of Prisoner for Prisoner’s Board in the Workhouse — Work Release
When a prisoner is employed for wages or salary, the warden, superintendent or other person in charge of the workhouse shall collect the wages or salary or require the prisoner to turn over the prisoner’s wages or salary when received; and the warden, superintendent or other person in charge of the workhouse shall deposit the […]
§ 41-2-120. Refusal to Work or Disorderly Conduct
Any prisoner refusing to work or becoming disorderly may be confined in solitary confinement, or subjected to such other punishment, not inconsistent with humanity, as may be deemed necessary by the sheriff or superintendent for the control of the prisoners, including reducing sentence credits pursuant to the procedure established in § 41-2-111. Prisoners refusing to […]
§ 41-2-107. Workhouse Superintendents
The board of commissioners shall appoint a superintendent of the workhouse. The superintendent shall be appointed on the first Monday in January of every even-numbered year, and hold office for two (2) years, unless sooner suspended or removed, as provided in § 41-2-104(d). The superintendent shall take an oath, and give bond for the faithful […]
§ 41-2-108. Sheriff as Superintendent
Whenever the jail in any county has been declared a workhouse, as provided in § 41-2-102, the sheriff shall be ex officio the superintendent of the workhouse. All persons liable to imprisonment for safekeeping, whether charged with felonies or misdemeanors, shall be confined in the workhouse, securely kept and properly cared for.
§ 41-2-109. Care of Prisoners
It is the duty of the superintendent to: Discharge each prisoner as soon as the prisoner’s time is out, or upon order of the board of commissioners; See that the prisoners are properly guarded to prevent escape; See that they are kindly and humanely treated, and properly provided with clothing, wholesome food properly cooked and […]
§ 41-2-110. Accounts and Reports
The superintendent shall keep or cause to be kept, in a well-bound book to be furnished by the county, an account of all supplies, implements and tools purchased for the workhouse, keeping the account for supplies separate from implements and tools. The superintendent shall, when a purchase is made, obtain an itemized bill specifying from […]
§ 41-2-111. Sentence to Hard Labor — Good Time Credit — Disciplinary Review Board
In all cases where a person is by law liable to be imprisoned in the county jail for punishment or for failure to pay a fine, that person shall be sentenced to be confined, and shall be confined, at hard labor in the county workhouse until the expiration of the sentence of imprisonment or, subject […]
§ 41-2-112. Fine Accompanying Sentence to Workhouse
When any person is sentenced to the workhouse, the judge of the court trying the case shall fix the fine in each case against the prisoner at a sum equal to the state and county tax provided by law; provided, that a greater fine may be entered, in the discretion of the court.
§ 41-2-113. Sentence to Workhouse in Lieu of Jail
In all cases where a person is by law liable to be imprisoned in the county jail for safekeeping or punishment, confinement in the workhouse, if one is provided, may, in the discretion of the court, be substituted. Code 1858, § 5413; Shan., § 7393; Code 1932, § 12006; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, […]
§ 41-2-117. Workhouse Sentence Beginning After Term in Penitentiary
When any inmate is sentenced by the courts to the workhouse, the inmate’s time of sentence to begin after a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary has expired, the judge of the court shall, in the commitment to the penitentiary, cause this fact to appear and shall direct the warden of the penitentiary to notify […]