CONVICT LABOR FOR ROAD WORK. 201 
respective jurisdictions, may apply therefor to the State highway commission, speci- 
fying the number desired, 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 compensation 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 +he 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.) 
Counties. — 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 public roads, or at such other places in the county as the 
person having 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 furnish 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 furnish 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 surplus 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 
convict, if any, otherwise it shall be paid to such convict on his discharge. Said 
convicts shall not be used in building any bridge or like structure which requires skilled 
labor. Convicts 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, under 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 advisable, 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, agree 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 $1 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. 
State. — The State may employ outside the walls of the penitentiary persons con- 
fined therein for felony in the construction, reconstructing, and maintaining public 
roads and bridges or in preparing road materials, or in aid of road and bridge work 
by the counties. (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 public 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 public works of any city or town, all such expenses shall be paid by such city 
