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respective jurisdictions, may apply therefor to the State highway commission, speci- 

 fying the number desii-ed, character of work, and the amount that will be paid for 

 such labor. If said commission shall approve the application, it shall be submitted 

 to the board of control and warden, who shall arrange the details of the contract with 

 such board of supervisors or other local road officials. The compeiisation agreed upon 

 for such labor may be paid from any fund available for road and bridge work, and said 

 board of control may allow a part of such compensation, over and above the cost of 

 maintenance, to such prisoners as shall perform such labor and send a portion thereof 

 to those dependent upon them. Prisoners shall not work in clothing which will make 

 them look ridiculous or unduly conspicuous. (35 G. A., ch. 134.) 



Co wn^ies.— Able-bodied male persons over 16 and under 50 years of age, impris- 

 oned in any jail, may be required to labor during the whole or a part of the term 

 of imprisonment, at the discretion of the court imposing sentence. Such work may 

 be on the streets, on the pubUc roads, or at such other places in the county as the 

 person ha^dng charge of the prisoners may direct, not exceeding eight hours per day. 

 When imprisonment is for violation of State statute, the sheriff shall superintend the 

 work and fui-nish tools and materials, if necessary, at expense of the county, and 

 the county shall be entitled to the benefit of such labor. If such imprisonment is for 

 violation of any ordinance, by-law, or other regulation of a city or town, the marshal 

 shall superintend the labor and f ui-nish tools and materials, if necessary, at expense 

 of such city or town entitled to the benefit of the labor of such convicts. (Code 1873; 

 sees. 4736-4739; 21 G. A., ch. 153.) 



Kansas. 



State. — The warden of the State penitentiary shall employ the sxu-plus convict labor 

 in extending and repairing the State and county roads, and upon other work exclu- 

 sively for the benefit of the State. (Acts 1907, ch. 20; Acts 1915, ch. 58.) 



Upon written request of the board of commissioners of any county or of the mayor 

 or councilmen or the commissioners of any city or town, the warden of the Kansas 

 State Penitentiary may, in his discretion, detail convicts to work upon such roads, 

 streets, or alleys as may be designated in said request; provided that such county, 

 city, or town, respectively, shall pay all additional expenses of guarding said convicts 

 while so employed and furnish necessary materials and tools, and shall also pay to said 

 warden the sum of $1 per day for each convict so furnished, which sum, after deduct- 

 ing the cost of maintenance and retention, shall be paid to those dependent on such 

 couAdct, if any, otherwise it shall be paid to such convict on his discharge. Said 

 con\icts shall not be used in building any bridge or like structure which requires skilled 

 labor. C'on\'icts may be granted as additional good time allowance one day out of 

 each three so employed, conditioned upon good behavior. (Acts 1913, ch. 219.) 



Counties. — The board of county commissioners of any county may properly shackle 

 and work, imder such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, male prisoners 

 committed to jail for nonpayment of fines and costs. Said board may establish a 

 county stoneyard and work such prisoners at breaking stone for road and street pur- 

 poses. Stone so crushed may be sold or disposed of on such terms as said board may 

 deem ad\isable, or, if it can not be sold, it may be used in improving some designated 

 road or street. The proceeds from the sale of such stone shall be used to pay for stone 

 delivered at the stoneyard and the remainder applied to payment of the fine and costs 

 against the person breaking the same. Such prisoner may, if he shall so desire, under 

 certain requirements, agi'ee to do a certain amount of work on some highway in full 

 satisfaction of such fine and costs and may be released from jail for that purpose. 

 Prisoners shall be allowed -11 for each day's labor performed in good faith, or a specified 

 sum per cubic yard for breaking stone. (G. S. 1909, ch. 97, art. 18, sees. 6937-6943.) 



Kentucky. 



Stat^. — The Slate may employ outside the walls of the penitentiary persons con- 

 fined therein for felony in the con.struction, reconstructing, and maintaining public 

 roads and bridges or in preparing road materials, or in aid of road and bridge work 

 by the countie.s. (Amendment to the constitution adopted in 1914.) 



Counties. — Persons sentenced to hard labor for nonpayment of fine and costs or as 

 punishment for offense committed , shall be placed in the county workhouse, or at work 

 upon some public work or road of the county, or upon the pubUc works of any city 

 or town in the county. The place and manner of working such prisoners shall be 

 determined by the county judge, and he shall give preference to work on roads. When 

 prisoners are worked on the county roads, the cost of feeding, lodging, and guarding 

 shall be paid out of the road funds of the county; and when they are employed on 

 the pubhc works of any city or towoi, all such expenses shall be paid by sut:h city 



