A sheriff or a sheriff's deputy shall receive the expenses incurred in the return of any person who has escaped from a state facility. Those expenses must be paid in amounts as provided by law for state officials, except that the mileage paid must be that regularly paid to the sheriff and the sheriff's deputies. If the person to be returned is a prisoner of a state facility or is ordered returned by a district court judge, the mileage and expenses must be paid by the state.
11-15-26. Sheriff to deliver commitment papers to warden and receive receipt for prisoner. The sheriff shall deliver a person sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary to the warden of the penitentiary together with a certified copy of the judgment and sentence of the court ordering the imprisonment. The warden shall deliver to the sheriff a receipt in which the warden acknowledges the delivery to the sheriff of the prisoner, naming the prisoner. The sheriff shall return such receipt to the clerk of the court in which the conviction and sentence were had, and the clerk shall file and retain the same in the clerk's office.