Title 41, Correctional Institutions and Inmates

(a) All counties in the state having duly adopted a consolidated or metropolitan form of government pursuant to title 7, chapter 1 shall institute a furlough program for workhouse prisoners. (b) All counties having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according…

(a) Whenever any person has been committed to the county jail or county workhouse, any sheriff or workhouse superintendent of a county with a population of eight hundred thousand (800,000) or more, according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, is authoriz…

All counties in the state having duly adopted a consolidated or metropolitan form of government pursuant to title 7, chapter 1, and all counties of the state having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent fede…

(a) (1) The sheriff of any county having a consolidated or metropolitan form of government and all counties of the state having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, shall develop an inmate i…

(a) When any prisoner has been sentenced to imprisonment in a county workhouse or jail or is serving time in the county jail or workhouse pursuant to an agreement with the department of correction, the sheriff or superintendent of the county shall be authorized to permit the pris…

(a) The sheriff or administrative authority having responsibility for the custody of any person sentenced to a local jail or workhouse pursuant to [former] § 40-35-302 [repealed], [former] § 40-35-306 [repealed], [former] § 40-35-307 [repealed] or [former] § 40-35-311 [repealed] …

(a) No sheriff, jailer or other person responsible for the care and custody of inmates housed in a county or municipal jail or workhouse may employ, require or otherwise use any inmate housed in the jail or workhouse to perform labor that will or may result directly or indirectly…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all persons sentenced to the county workhouse, either for a felony or misdemeanor conviction, in counties with an existing work release program whereby, among other things, prisoners remove litter and trash from public roads and other pub…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, except as provided in subsection (b), any person sentenced to the county workhouse or jail, either for a felony or misdemeanor conviction, in counties with programs whereby prisoners work either for pay or sentence reduction, or …

Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of general law shall be construed to prevent two (2) or more counties from entering into an interlocal agreement for the joint operation of a workhouse to serve the counties so agreeing.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (c), a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail who is released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether the work is paid o…

The authorities of any incorporated town may provide such lands, buildings and articles of any kind as may be necessary for a workhouse or house of correction for that town, may appoint suitable persons for the management of the workhouse or house of correction, and make all nece…

(a) Any prisoner refusing to work or becoming disorderly may be confined in solitary confinement and fed on bread and water or subjected to such other punishment, not inconsistent with humanity, as may be deemed necessary by the commissioners for the government and control of the…

If a prisoner is confined for safekeeping, the prisoner's earnings, after paying for board, shall be paid over to the prisoner on discharge.

If a prisoner is confined for failure to pay a fine and costs, the prisoner shall be detained until the fine and costs, except litigation tax, have been paid by the proceeds of the prisoner's labor.

After the term for which a prisoner is imprisoned has expired, the prisoner shall be detained until the fine and costs are paid, as provided in § 41-3-104.

(a) No sheriff, jailer or other person responsible for the care and custody of inmates housed in a county or municipal jail or workhouse may employ, require or otherwise use any inmate housed in the jail or workhouse to perform labor that will or may result directly or indirectly…

(a) Municipal offenders confined or subject to confinement in a county or municipal jail or workhouse under applicable law may be sentenced by the court to perform public service work for the municipality. (b) The municipality and its officers and employees shall not be liable fo…

The sheriff of the county has, except in cases otherwise provided by law, the custody and charge of the jail of the county and of all prisoners committed to the jail and may appoint a jailer.

(a) Upon the resignation, death, removal from office or expiration of the term of office of any sheriff or coroner acting as sheriff, the jail and the prisoners in the jail, with everything belonging or pertaining thereto, shall be delivered over to the successor of the sheriff o…

(a) In addition to convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, the jail is used as a prison for the safekeeping or confinement of the following persons:(1) Persons committed for trial for public offenses;(2) Inmates sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, until …

It is the duty of the jailer to receive and safely keep, without any fee therefor, all inmates on their way to the penitentiary, whenever the sheriff or other officer in charge of such inmates may deem it necessary.

The jailer is liable for failing to receive and safely keep all persons delivered under the authority of the United States, to the like pains and penalties as for similar failures in the case of persons committed under authority of the state; however, the marshal or person delive…

The mittimus or process by which any prisoner is committed or discharged from jail, or an attested copy of the mittimus or process, shall be regularly filed in its order and safely kept by the sheriff, or jailer, under the sheriff's direction.

Every person committed to jail may furnish that person's own support, under such precautions as the jailer may deem proper to adopt for the purpose of guarding against escapes and to prevent the importation of intoxicants or narcotics. If such support is not furnished by the pris…

The jailer shall furnish adequate food and bedding.

Male and female prisoners, except husband and wife, shall not be kept in the same cell or room in jail.

The jailers shall enforce cleanliness in their respective jails. They shall furnish the necessary apparatus for shaving once a week, shall provide bathing facilities separate for males and females, shall furnish hot and cold water, clean and sufficient bedding, and laundering onc…

It is the duty of the sheriff, where the jail is not fireproof, and so long as any person is confined in the jail, to be constantly at the jail or to have constantly at the jail someone having in possession all keys necessary to liberate all of the prisoners in the jail in case o…

The sheriff or other person shall remain in the jail every night from eight o'clock p.m. (8:00 p.m.) to six o'clock a.m. (6:00 a.m.).

After examination and commitment of prisoners, the jailer shall convey letters from prisoners to their counsel and others, sealing and putting them in the post office if required. The jailer shall also admit, without charge, persons having business with prisoners and shall remain…

(a) The county legislative bodies alone have the power, and it is their duty, to provide medical care for all prisoners confined in the jail in their respective counties, except for federally or state funded medication for HIV positive patients pursuant to subsection (h). The cou…

(a) The county legislative body may, at its January term each year, appoint three (3) householders or freeholders, residents of the county, of lawful age, to act as jail inspectors for the ensuing year, or the court may appoint inspectors at any other time to act for a shorter pe…

A violation of any of §§ 41-4-108 — 41-4-116, whether by the sheriff or by any person selected as jailer or guard by the sheriff, is a Class A misdemeanor.

In all cases where a defendant charged with the commission of a felony is committed to jail, either before or after trial, and the safety of the defendant or the defendant's safekeeping, requires a guard, it is the duty of the sheriff to employ a sufficient guard to protect the d…

(a) For service as a guard pursuant to § 41-4-118, each guard shall receive one dollar ($1.00) for each day, and one dollar ($1.00) for each night so necessarily employed, to be taxed in the bill of costs and paid as other costs are now paid. (b) Before the payments provided for …

Whenever any officer has to pay necessary expenses for board in guarding a prisoner, the expenses shall be allowed to the officer, to be taxed in the bill of costs not to exceed thirty-five cents (35¢) per meal each for the officer, the prisoner and the guard.

(a) (1) The sheriff has the authority, when the jail of the county is insufficient for the safekeeping of a prisoner, to convey the prisoner to the nearest sufficient jail in the state or, if the prisoner is a juvenile, to the nearest sufficient juvenile detention facility in the…

The sheriff is authorized to employ as many as two (2) persons, if necessary, in removing a prisoner under § 41-4-121, and each shall be allowed for such services as is provided for similar services in conveying inmates to the penitentiary.

The prisoner shall be delivered to the sheriff or deputy sheriff of the county from which the prisoner has been sent, on demand made immediately preceding or during the term at which the prisoner is triable.

When the court orders the prisoner to be carried to the jail of another county for safekeeping for want of a sufficient jail in the county where the case is pending, it may make a reasonable allowance to the sheriff and necessary guard, including expenses for conveying the prison…

The jailer in cases specified in § 41-4-124 may prove costs in the circuit or criminal court of the county and obtain the certificate of the district attorney general of that court thereto. The clerk of the court shall forward the certificate to the court where the cause is pendi…

If the court directs the sheriff to summon more than two (2) guards in order to carry safely any prisoner charged with a crime from one county to another for trial or safekeeping, the commissioner of finance and administration shall allow the additional guards ordered by the cour…

The county legislative bodies of counties that have no jail may appropriate a contingent fund in an amount sufficient to pay all contingent expenses in transporting prisoners to and from jail, the appropriation to be made from time to time, so that the sheriff may be able, at any…

It is the duty of the county trustee to keep a book in which the trustee keeps an account showing the amounts appropriated from time to time, and also to keep a correct account of all moneys drawn by the sheriff from the contingent fund.

Sheriffs and jailers shall make written statements of account, properly proven and sworn to, for the keeping of prisoners, specifying distinctly each item and the amount due for each item.