§7-9-15. Costs of Maintenance
The costs of maintaining such joint city and county workhouse, over and above the proceeds arising from the sale of the products thereof, shall be borne by such city and county jointly, and such expenses shall be paid quarterly by such city and county out of the respective treasuries thereof, upon the certificate of such […]
§7-9-16. Commitments
When a person over sixteen years of age is convicted of an offense, under the law of the state or an ordinance of a municipal corporation, and the tribunal before which the conviction is had is directed by law to commit the offender to the county jail, or corporation prison, the court, mayor or justice […]
§7-9-17. Inmates From Other Counties and Cities
Any city and county or county having or that may hereafter erect a joint city and county workhouse, or county workhouse, may receive as inmates of such joint city and county workhouse, or county workhouse, persons sentenced thereto as provided by law, from counties and municipal corporations having no workhouse, upon such terms and for […]
§7-9-18. Inmates From Cities
The commissioners of any county, or the council of any municipal corporation, wherein there is no workhouse, may agree with the council of any municipal corporation or other authority having control of the workhouse of any other city, or with the directors of any district or joint city and county workhouse, or county workhouse, upon […]
§7-9-19. Sentence to Workhouse
When any person has been convicted of a misdemeanor or of the violation of any ordinance of a municipal corporation, by any court or magistrate of the state, or of such municipal corporation, in a county or municipal corporation having no workhouse, and the commissioners of such county or council of such municipal corporation have […]
§7-9-20. Procedure After Sentence
When a person is sentenced to such workhouse by the circuit or criminal courts, the clerk thereof shall make and deliver to the sheriff a certified copy of the docket and journal entries, showing the crime charged and the sentence of the court, which shall be delivered by the sheriff to the proper officer in […]
§7-9-21. Payment of Fine
When a person is committed to such workhouse under sentence that he stand committed to such workhouse until the fine and costs of prosecution assessed against him are paid, as provided in section eighteen, such person may pay in money, in whole or in part, to the board of workhouse directors, such fine and costs […]
§7-9-6. Employees
The board shall have power to appoint a superintendent, deputy superintendent, and such subordinate officers, guards and employees as may be necessary, fix their compensation and prescribe their duties, and to make all such regulations for their management and government as it may deem expedient.
§7-9-7. Regulations
The board shall have power to make, establish and enforce rules and regulations for its own government, and the government and control of the institution, its officers and inmates, and make contracts for supplies and the labor of its inmates either within the corporate limits of such municipality or within the limits of the county […]
§7-9-3. Appointment of Directors
The directors shall be appointed by the mayor, and the county court or other tribunal acting in lieu thereof, of such city and county having such joint workhouse, with the approval of the council of such city and county commissioners, and shall hold their office for five years, except that at the first appointment one […]