200 BULLETIN 414, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Illinois. 
State— The board of prison industries shall, upon re }uisition of the State highway 
commission, employ prisoners in the penal and reformatory institutions of the State 
in the manufacture of tile and culvert pipe, road machinery, tools, and appliances, 
and in the preparation of road and ballasting materials. All such materials so manu- 
factured shall be placed upon railroad cars to be forwarded to proper destination. 
Application for such materials may be made to the State highway commission by 
county or township road officials, as the case may be, in such quantities as may be 
needed for the construction or repair of their roads, obligating themselves to use 
such materials according to rules and regulations formulated and approved by the 
State highway commission. The State highway commission may negotiate with 
railroad lines for rates of transportation on all such material, machinery, and tools, 
and may contract with such railroads to pay for same in ballasting material. (Acts 
1905, ch. 108, as amended in 1907.) 
The commissioners of the Northern Illinois Penitentiary, commissioners of the 
Southern Illinois Penitentiary, and the board of managers of the Pontiac Reformatory 
may employ convicts sentenced for terms not exceeding five years, or who have not 
more than five years to serve to complete their sentence, in working on the public 
roads or in preparing road materials outside the walls of such institutions. Upon 
written request of the county or township road officials, as the case may be, said peni- 
tentiary commissioners and the board of managers of said reformatory shall detail 
such convicts as in their judgment shall seem proper, not exceeding the number 
requested, to be worked under such terms and conditions as the said penitentiary 
commissioners and board of managers may prescribe. Such local road officials shall 
pay all additional expenses for guarding such convicts while so worked in their respec- 
tive townships, road districts, or counties. (Acts 1913, S. B., 539.) 
Indiana. 
State. — The board of trustees of the Indiana Reformatory, and the board of control 
of the Indiana State Prison, may work the inmates thereof, or any number of such in- 
mates, upon the public highways of the State, whenever there is no labor at which they 
may be employed within the walls of such institutions. Said boards may adopt rules 
and regulations for the care, control, and safety of such inmates while so employed, 
and may enter into an agreement with the board of commissioners of any county, or 
the township trustee of any township, to work such inmates upon the highways of such 
county or township, and such agreement shall provide the compensation such county 
or township shall pay said boards for the labor of such inmates. In order to carry out 
such agreements, said boards may purchase necessary tools, apparatus^ appliances, 
and movable places of confinement for such inmates and employ a superintendent to 
have charge of such work. Said board of county commissioners, or township trustees, 
as the case may be, may purchase all materials necessary to perform such work. Said 
boards may enter into similar agreements with any commission or board that hereafter 
may be authorized by law to improve the public highways of the State. (Acts 1913, 
ch. 83.) 
Counties. — All able-bodied male prisoners sentenced to any county jail or work- 
house, either for punishment or for nonpayment of fines or costs, may be put at hard 
labor on the public roads or highways, or upon any^ other public work, under such 
rules and regulations as the board of county commissioners may prescribe. The cost 
of guarding such prisoners while so employed shall be paid from the county treasury. 
(Burn's Anno. Stats., 1908.) 
Iowa. 
State. — The board of control of State institutions, with the advice of the warden of 
any penal institution of the State, may permit any able-bodied male prisoners to work 
upon the highways or any other public works of the State, but no prisoner shall be so 
worked whose health might thereby be impaired, or whose character is such that he 
would probably be unruly or attempt to escape. No prisoner who is opposed to so 
working shall be required to do so. Prisoners so employed shall at all times be under 
the charge and jurisdiction of the warden of the institution to which sentenced, and 
said warden shall designate guards, officers, or agents, to direct and supervise such 
prisoners. The State highway commission shall supervise the work performed on 
the highways, but may cooperate with boards of supervisors and local officials in the 
performance of same. Said board of control and warden shall prescribe the condi- 
tions and manner of keeping and caring for such prisoners. County boards of super- 
visors, or other local road officials, desiring to use prisoners upon the highways in their 
