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Wisconsin. 



State. — The State board of control may employ inmates of the State prison in 

 improving such roads as said board and the State highway commission may cfetermine 

 and in such manner and under such terms as may be agreed upon. For each convict 

 so employed said board shall set aside for such work performed such per diem as shall 

 be deemed proper, said money to be paid either to such convict or to the dependent 

 members of his family. Said board may purchase or lease necessary tools and 

 machinery. (Acts 1913, ch. 717.) 



Counties. — In counties having a population of less than 100,000 there may be pro- 

 vided by the county board convenient to the county jail a quantity of stone and 

 appropriate implements for breaking same suitable for road purposes. All able- 

 bodied male persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail 

 shall be employed in breaking such stone not more than eight hours per day. County 

 boards of supervisors may prescribe necessary rules and regulations to govern such 

 work and for the maintenance of such stone and implements. (Wis. Stats. 1911, 

 Title XXXIV, ch. 202.) 



Wyoming. 



State. — The construction, repair, and maintenance of the system of public highways 

 ■established by chapter 44, acts of 1911, as amended by chapter 124, acts of 1913, shall 

 be under the authority and control of the State commission on prison labor, who shall 

 construct same and extensions thereto by the labor of convicts obtained from the 

 State penitentiary. Supervision of such work shall be under a competent person 

 selected by said commission, but said con"\'icts shall not be worked more than eight 

 hours any day. Said commission shall adopt rales and regulations providing for the 

 granting of an additional good-time allowance in the case of prisoners serving short 

 sentences and better food for prisoners serving life sentences, conditioned on good 

 beha^dor and efficient work. The location, surveying, plans, and specifications and 

 the selection of materials for such highways shall be under the direction of the State 

 engineer, the expense for which, including salary of deputy engineer to be furnished 

 by the State engineer, shall be paid by the board of county commissioners of the 

 county or counties in which said work is done. Boards of county commissioners of 

 the several counties thi-ough which said pubHc highways pass shall secure the rights 

 of way therefor, and shall build the necessary bridges over any and all rivers over 

 which said highways pass, provided such bridges shall be built in accordance with the 

 plans of the State engineer, and that, as far as practicable, bridges across small streams 

 shall be constructed by said con^dct labor. Appropriations from the State treasury 

 are made to pm'chase necessary tools, implements, supplies, and equipment in con- 

 nection with employing prisoners on public highways, $5,000 being so appropriated 

 for the two years ending March 31, 1917. (Acts 1911, ch. 44, as amended; acts 1915, 

 ch. 162.) 



Counties. — All persons sentenced to confinement at hard labor in any jail or prison 

 of any county, city, town, village, or municipality may be employed upon any public 

 work of improvement or upon the highways, streets, alleys, parks, or other public 

 places located therein. (Comp. Stats., 1910, ch. 418, sec. 6401.) 



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