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r-mnmissariat. camps, and all other expense incident to such work shall be paid from 
the respective funds provided 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 sen-ice, 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 
court, be compelled to work on the public roads, or any other public 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 SI. 50 for each day's work so performed. (Acts 1911, 
ch. 379.) 
The boards of supervisors, in their respective counties, 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 county. (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 established the "Santa Fe Trail " highway to extend from a des- 
ignated point on the northern boundary 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 
hours 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 direction 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 receive 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 serving a sentence in any county 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 prisoners 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 
