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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 47 - PRISONS AND PRISONERS; PROBATION AND PAROLE (§§ 47-1-1 — 47-7-101)
Chapter 1 - COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL PRISONS AND PRISONERS (§§ 47-1-1 — 47-1-63)
- 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 - Reserved
- 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
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