CONVICT LABOE FOR ROAD WORK. 211 



faithfully work; but if at any time he shall fail to so work he shall forfeit all or as 

 manv of said credits as said superintendent shall deem proper. (Lord's Oregon Laws, 

 sees .'6436-6437.) 



The State shall not contract with any private person, firm, or corporation for the 

 labor of con\dcts of the State penitentiary. Upon written request of the county 

 coui't of any county or of the superintendent of any State institution the governor 

 may detail fifom the State penitentiary such con\T.cts as in his judgment may seem 

 proper for use on the public highways of such county. (Laws 1913, ch. 2.) 



Fifty thousand dollars is appropriated to be used by the board of control of the 

 State of Oregon to install and equip with necessary machinery such plants as in its 

 discretion may seem wise. Said board may use such portion of the amount so appro- 

 priated as it may deem advisable in employing convicts from the Oregon State Peni- 

 tentiary in road building in the State, and shall make all rules and regulations neces- 

 sary for same. (Acts 1915, ch. 251.) 



Counties. — -Able-bodied convicts serving sentence in any city, town, or county 

 jail or prison, as punishment for crime or in default of fine, may be placed by the 

 county coiu't under the control of any road supervisor, or other person appointed to 

 take charge of such con\icts, to be worked on the public roads of the county, or such 

 other pubhc work as said court may direct. The county court shall make rules and 

 regulations in regard to the employment of such convicts and for allowance of com- 

 pensation and credits in time for good behavior; provided that no credit in excess 

 of 10 days per calendar month shall be allowed, and if imprisonment is for nonpayment 

 of fine, such convict shall be made to labor at rate of $2 per day until such fine is 

 paid. Any county court may transfer to the county court of any other county any 

 of the con\dcts committed to its control, upon such terms and conditions as may be 

 agreed upon by the county courts concerned. Any convict who shall refuse to work 

 shall be fed bread and water until he shall signify Ms willingness to work. If any 

 county shall have created a board of county commissioners, or other board or tribunal, 

 to have charge of the management of the pubhc roads of such county, it shall have the 

 same power as the county coiurt under tMs act. (Laws 1913, ch. 3.) 



Pennsylvania. 



State. — All persons sentenced to the Eastern or Western Penitentiary, or to the 

 Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntington, or to any other correctional 

 institution hereafter estabUshed by the State, physically capable of such labor, may 

 be employed eight hours per day at hard labor for the purpose of manufacturing and 

 producing supplies or materials for said institutions, or for the State or any county 

 thereof, or for the purpose of industrial training or instruction, or in the manufacture 

 and production of crushed stone, brick, tile, culvert pipe, or other material suitable 

 for use in road building. A prison labor commission is created, to be composed of a 

 member of the board of prison inspectors of each of said institutions, respectively, 

 wMch said commission shall determine the amount, kind and character of machinery 

 to be erected in such institutions, the industries to be carried on therein, the number 

 and character of inmates, and shall arrange for the sale of the materials produced to 

 the State, or any county, or to any public State institution. For the purchase of 

 material, equipment, and machinery, a special appropriation of $75,000 was made 

 to the said prison labor commission, to be known as the manufacturing fund, and 

 receipts from the sales of manufactured articles shall be credited to said fund. Each 

 pri.soner shall be credited with wages for the time he actually works, the rate of such 

 wage.? to be regulated at the discretion of the prison labor commission, but it shall not 

 be le.ss than 10 nor more than 50 cents per day. Three-fourths of the amount so credited 

 or the entire amount if the prisoner so desires, shall constitute a fund for the relief of 

 any per.son.g dependent on such prisoner. In case there are no dependents the sum 

 shall be deposited to the credit of the prisoner. (Acts 1915, No. 289.) 



Counties. — The warden of any jail may detail for work on the public liighways such 

 convicts aa he may deem advisable, except prisoners under sentence of death. Writ- 

 ten request for such convicts shall be made by the State highway commissioner for all 

 State roads; by the county commissioners for all county roads; by the township com- 

 missionerfl or township supervisors, as the case may be, for township roads, and by the 

 mayor or burgess for all municipal streets. Such detail, however, shall be voluntary 

 on the part of the prisoners. Convicts while so working shall be under general direc- 

 tion of the warden, or overseers appointed by him, and subject to such rules and regu- 

 lations as he .sliall prescribe. Such convicts shall not be required to wear stripes. 

 For infractions of the rules and regulations the maximum punishment shall be the 

 .summary return of the prisoner to confinement in the jail and the loss of all deductions 

 from w;ntenf;e to which he may be entitled at the time. Each convictshall be allowed 

 25 centa for each day he labors, which sum shall accummulato as a fund to be paid him 



