.130   Confinement in penitentiary, county jail or workhouse -- Nature.


431.130 Confinement in penitentiary, county jail or workhouse -- Nature.
Prisoners sentenced to punishment by confinement in the penitentiary shall be kept at
hard labor. If the punishment is imprisonment in the jail of the county, the imprisonment
shall be close confinement in the jail of the county where the trial was held, unless
otherwise provided. In any jurisdiction where there is a county workhouse the court may
in its discretion confine the prisoner to the county workhouse instead of the county jail.
History: Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 315. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts
ch. 234, sec. 43. -- Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 43, sec. 2. -- Amended 1944 Ky.
Acts ch. 17, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1,
1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1136.