Convicts so employed to be chained, etc. Prisoner sentenced to pay a (6139.) SEC. 11. Whenever any convicts shall be employed under the last section, they shall be well chained and secured; and, shall be subject to such regulations as the keeper, legally charged with their custody, shall, from time to time, prescribe. (6140.) SEC. 12. Whenever any prisoner, who shall be fine, etc., to be sentenced to pay a fine and costs, or either, and to be comearning amount. mitted until the same be paid, shall be employed at hard labor discharged on Certain provi. sions in regard to oners, etc., to ap cases. pursuant to the foregoing provisions, he shall be allowed the sum of seventy-five cents for each day's labor, and when he shall have earned the amount of such fine and costs, he shall be discharged. (6141.) SEC. 13. The provisions contained in chapter one removal of pris- hundred and forty-eight, in regard to the designation of the ply in criminal jail of a contiguous county for the use of any county; to the removal of prisoners in such cases; and to the removal of prisoners when danger shall be apprehended from fire or contagious disease, shall extend to prisoners confined upon. any criminal process, or for a contempt, or under sentence, in like manner as to prisoners confined in civil cases. Chapter 173. Insane convicts may be delivered ents of Poor. (6142.) SEC. 14. Whenever it shall appear to the Circuit to Suderintend- Court for any county, that any convict confined in the jail thereof, has become insane, such Court may, by an order to be entered in its minutes, direct that such convict be delivered to the Superintendents of the Poor of the County. Notice of order to be given by Clerk, etc. Inspectors of Powers of Inspectors. Inspectors when to visit and in (6143.) SEC. 15. The Clerk of the Court shall cause notice of every such order to be served upon such Superintendents, or one of them, who shall immediately take measures for the safe-keeping of such insane person, in the manner provided by law. (6144.) SEC. 16. In each county of this State, the Judge of the County Court, together with the County Superintendents of the Poor, shall be inspectors of the jails therein respectively. (6145.) SEC. 17. Such inspectors shall have power, from time to time, to visit and inspect the common jail and other county prisons, if there be any in their respective counties, and to examine and inquire into all matters connected with the government, discipline and police of such prisons. (6146.) SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of such inspectors to spect prisons, visit and inspect the said prisons, in the month of May, and also in the month of November, in every year, and at the next Circuit Court which shall thereafter be held in their County, and report their condition. to present to such Court, on the first day of its sitting a detailed report of the condition of such prisons at the time of such inspection. contain. (6147.) SEC. 19. Such report shall state the number of per- Report, what to sons confined in such prisons for the six months immediately preceding such inspection, and for what causes respectively; the manner in which the convicts confined in such prison during that period have been employed; the number of prisoners usually confined in one room; the distinction, if any, usually observed in the treatment of persons detained in such prisons; the evils, if any, found to exist in such prisons; and particularly whether any of the provisions of this chapter have been violated or neglected, and the causes of such violation or neglect. Inspectors, ex (6148.) SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the keepers of each Keepers to admit of said prisons to admit the said inspectors, or any of them, hibit books, etc. into every part of such prison; to exhibit to them on demand, all the books, papers, documents and accounts pertaining to the prison, or to the detention of the prisoners confined therein, and to render them every other facility in their power, to enable them to discharge the duties above prescribed. examine officers verse with pris (6149.) SEC. 21. For the purpose of obtaining the necessary Inspectors may information to enable them to make such report as is above on oath, and conrequired, the said inspectors shall have power to examine, on oners. oath, to be administered by either of the said inspectors, any of the officers of the said prisons, and to converse with any of .the prisoners confined therein, without the presence of the keepers thereof, or any of them. sent calendar to (6150.) SEC. 22. It shall be the duty of the keeper of every Keeper to preCounty prison to present to every County Court to be held Court. in his County, at the opening of such Court, a calendar, stating: 1. The name of every prisoner then detained in such prison; 2. The time when such prisoner was committed, and by virtue of what process or precept; and: 3. The cause of the detention of every such person. (b) (6151.) SEC. 23. Within twenty-four hours after the dis-when persons charge of any Grand Jury by any County Court, it shall be discharged by the duty of such Court to cause every person confined in such not indicted to be Court. (b) As Amended by Act 275, of 1850, p. 323. Before this Amendment, the Sheriff's Cal dar or Report was to be made to the Circuit Court. When prisoner not to be removed pus, unless, etc. prison upon any criminal charge, who shall not have been indicted, to be discharged without bail, unless satisfactory cause shall be shown to such Court for detaining such person in custody or upon bail, as the case may require, until the meeting of the next Grand Jury in such County. (c) (6152.) SEC. 24. After the Circuit Court for any county on Habeas Cor shall have commenced its sitting, no prisoner detained in the common jail of such County upon any criminal charge, shall be removed therefrom during such sitting by any writ of habeas corpus, unless such writ shall have been issued by such. Court, or shall be made returnable before it. Refractory prisoners may be punished. Persons confined on Execution, ished for offence in Jails, etc. (6153.) SEC. 25. If any person confined in any jail, upon a conviction or charge of any criminal offence, shall be refractory or disorderly, or shall willfully or wantonly destroy or injure any article of bedding, or other furniture, or a door or window, or any other part of such prison, the Sheriff of the County, after due inquiry, may cause such person to be kept in solitary confinement, not more than ten days for any one offence; and during such solitary confinement, he shall be fed with bread and water only, unless other food shall be necessary for the preservation of his health. (6154.) SEC. 26. If any person committed to jail on original etc., how pun process or on execution, or for any other cause than those mentioned in the preceding section, shall be guilty of either of the offences therein specified, and be thereof convicted before a Justice of the Peace of the County, on the complaint of the keeper of such jail, such person shall be punished by solitary imprisonment, as directed in the preceding section, not more than ten days for any one offence; and such offender shall be liable for double the amount of the damages done to the jail, furniture, or other property, to be recovered with costs of suit, in an action of trespass, in the name of the Board of Supervisors of the County. two preceding Construction of (6155.) SEC. 27. Nothing contained in the two preceding Sections. sections, shall be construed to take from any Sheriff or jailor, any part of the authority with which he was before invested by law, to preserve order and enforce strict discipline among all the prisoners in his custody. Escape of persons under sentence (6156.) SEC. 28. If any person lawfully imprisoned in any of confinement jail, under sentence of confinement at hard labor, shall break (c) As Amended by Act 275, of 1850, p. 323. how punished. such prison and escape, he shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor; in the State prison or County jail, not more than three years, in addition to the unexpired portion of the term for which he was originally imprisoned. and escaping in punished. (6157.) SEC. 29. If any person lawfully imprisoned in any Breaking prison jail, for any cause not mentioned in the preceding section, shall other cases, how break such prison and escape, he shall be punished by imprisonment, either in the State prison or County jail, not more than one year in addition to the unexpired portion of the term for which he was originally sentenced. attempt to es (6158.) SEc. 30. If any person lawfully imprisoned for any Punishment for cause in any prison or place of confinement established by cape. law, other than the State prison, shall forcibly break the same, with intent to escape, or shall, by any force or violence, attempt to escape therefrom, although no escape be effected, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the County jail not more than one year, in addition to any term for which he was held in prison at the time of such breaking or attempting to escape. 6160. Inspectors of Prison. 6161. To choose President. 6162. Officers of Prison. €163. Agent, how appointed, and term of office. 6164. Other officers, how appointed. €165. Inspectors to inquire into government of Prison, etc. 6166. Inspectors to inquire into alleged improper conduct of officers 6167. Examination of Witnesses. 6168. Inspectors to be admitted into Prison, and 6170. Duty of Board to meet, adopt rules, etc. 6172. General and special rules and orders by 6173. Daily journal to be kept and laid before 6174. Report to be made by Inspectors to Sec- 6175. No Inspector to be Agent, etc. 6177. Purchase of books for convicts; Librarian. €179. Compensation of Inspectors; Traveling fees. 6180. Agent and Clerk to give bond. 6183. Transactions of Prison to be conducted in SECTION 6181. Contracts for labor of convicts. 6186. How prisoners to be supplied with pro visions. 6187. Articles and the quantity to be prescribed by Inspectors. 6188. Notice for supplies. 6189. Hospital stores. 6190. Purchase of raw materials. 6191. No officer to be interested. gent to make return monthly. 6193. Agent to render account annually to Au- 6194. Affidavit, to account. 6196. Agent to report to Inspectors the annual 6197. Officers to receive no perquisites, except, etc. 6198. Agent to report annually to Secretary of 6199. When Deputy Keeper to perform duties of 6200. Duties of Physician. 6201. Books publie property, and to remain in 6202. No officer to employ labor of the convicts. 6206. Convicts to be turnished with Bibles, etc. 6208. Assistant Keepers to preserve discipline. victs. SECTION 6210. To keep account and pay over proceeds. 6211. Clothing and money to be furnished convict on discharge. 6212. Letters not to be delivered to convicts, etc. 6213. Persons authorized to visit convicts at pleasure. 6214. Copy of sentence to be delivered with convict. 6215. Reward for conviets who have escaped. 6216. Reward to be paid out of State Treasury. 6217. Removal of conviets in ease of pestilence. 6218. In case of fire. 6219. Convicts sentenced by Courts of United States. 6220. When Habeas Corpus may be granted for 6221. Spirituous liquors not to be sold in Prison. 6224. Auditor General to draw Warrant. tary and Jury duty. 6228. Extra copies of Report to be printed, etc. 6229. Auditor General to settle accounts on removal of Agent. 6230. Convicts sentenced to solitary confinement 6232. Deduction for good behavior in second State Prison at Inspectors of Pri son. 1840, p. 109. To choose President. Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Two of Revised Statutes of 1846. (6159.) SECTION 1. There shall continue to be maintained in this State, a State prison, at Jackson, in the County of Jackson. (6160.) SEC. 2. The said prison shall continue to be under the direction and government of three inspectors, one of whom shall be appointed annually by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall hold his office for the term of three years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, and shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed in the twelfth article of the Constitution, before entering upon the duties of his office. (6161.) SEC. 3. The Board of Inspectors shall meet at the State prison office as soon as may be after such appointment of an inspector, and shall choose one of their number to be their president. |