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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 determine 
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 convicts 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 
behavior 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 through which said public 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 convict labor. Appropriations from the State treasury 
are made to purchase 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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