196 BULLETIN" 414, IT. S. DEPAETMEl^T OF AGRICULTURE. 



commissariat, camps, and all other expense incident to such work shall be paid from 

 the respective funds pro-\dded for such State road work. Convicts shall not do any 

 work which requires the employment of skilled labor. The said board of prison di- 

 rectors shall adopt a special rule applicable to such convicts, whereby additional 

 good-time allowance may be granted for good conduct and efficient service, but not 

 to exceed one day for each two calendar days that the convict is absent from the 

 prison. (Acts 1915, ch. 124.) 



Counties. — Any person convicted of abandonment and nonsupport of a wife, child, 

 or children and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail may, at direction of the 

 coiu't, be compelled to work on the pubHc roads, or any other pubHc works, in the 

 county. Where such work is performed, the board of supervisors shall order paid to 

 the wife, or the guardian or custodian of such child or children, at the end of each 

 calendar month, not to exceed $1.50 for each day's work so performed. (Acts 1911, 

 ch. 379.) 



The boards of supervisors, in their respective coimties, may provide that prisoners 

 confined in the county jail on conviction of misdemeanor, shall, under direction of 

 some suitable person to be appointed by the sheriff, work upon the public roads, 

 streets, alleys, highways, or in such other places as may be deemed advisable for the 

 benefit of the coimty. (Acts 1911, ch. 746.) 



Colorado. 



State. — Convicts of the State penitentiary engaged in work outside the walls thereof, 

 and known as " trusty prisoners," who shall comply with the prison rules and perform 

 their work in a creditable manner may, upon the warden's approval, be granted such 

 good time in addition to that allowed by law as the Board of Penitentiary Commis- 

 sioners may order, not to exceed 10 days in any one calendar month. (Acts 1909, ch. 

 153.) 



Upon the written request of the board of county commissioners of any county, the 

 warden of the State penitentiary shall detail such convicts as in his judgment shall 

 seem proper, not exceeding the number requested, to work upon such public roads 

 of such county, or streets or alleys of any city or incorporated town therein, as shall be 

 designated in said request. Such county shall pay all additional expense of guarding 

 such convicts and shall furnish tools and materials while working on the roads therein; 

 and such expenses shall be met by such city or incorporated town when such work is 

 done on the streets or alleys thereof. (R. S. 1908; sec, 4879.) 



The legislature has estabhshed the " Santa Fe Trail " highway to extend from a des- 

 ignated point on the northern boimdary of New Mexico through Trinidad, Denver, 

 and Fort Collins to a designated point on the northern boundary of Colorado. The 

 construction and maintenance of said road and extensions thereof shall be under 

 control of the Board of Commissioners of the State Penitentiary and the warden of 

 said penitentiary, who shall use therefor the labor of the penitentiary convicts. 

 Supervision of the work shall be under such competent persons as may be selected by 

 said board of penitentiary commissioners. Convicts shall not be worked over eight 

 hour's per day. Said board of penitentiary commissioners may adopt rules and regu- 

 lations providing for granting additional good-time allowance to short-term men and 

 better food for Life prisoners, conditioned on good behavior and efficient work. (R. 

 S., 1908; sees., 5855-5859.) 



At various times appropriations have been made by the legislature to purchase 

 tools, equipment, supplies, etc., and to pay for extra guards, in building certain 

 specified roads with the labor of State convicts. (Acts 1909, chs. 55, 92, 95; Acts 

 1911, chs. 54, 56.) 



An appropriation was made and authority conferred for working paroled prisoners 

 from the State reformatory, under dii-ection of the State reformatory commissioners 

 and the warden of the Colorado State Reformatory, on the highway following the 

 Arkansas River from Pueblo to Leadville. Such prisoners r^eceive a salary of not to 

 exceed ?1 per day and board for each day they shall so work. _ Necessary road equip- 

 ment was to be provided from the appropriation made. If a prisoner shall be returned 

 to the reformatory for misconduct he shall forfeit any unpaid balance due on his 

 salary. (Acts 1909, ch. 112.) 



Counties. — Persons ser\T.ng a sentence in any coimty jail who shall faithfully per- 

 form the duties assigned during the term of imprisonment shall be entitled to a deduc- 

 tion from such sentence of two days in each month. Any such prisoner who shall 

 escape, or attempt to escape, shall forfeit all accrued deductions to which he may be 

 entitled. Upon written request of the board of county commissioners, the sheriff 

 shall detail such male piisoners as he may deem proper, not exceeding the number 

 requested, to work on such roads of the county, or such streets and alleys of any city 



