UNITED STATES CONVICTS 53.16 Custody and employment. The warden shall receive into the state prison all persons convicted before any court of the United States, held within the state of Wisconsin, and sentenced by such court to the punishment of imprisonment at hard labor in said prison, and shall safely keep and employ each such convict pursuant to his sentence and the regulations of the prison, until such sentence shall be performed or the said convict be otherwise discharged by due course of law of the United States. [Stats. 1917 s. 4931; 1919 c. 348 s. 18.] 53.17 Settlement of accounts for maintenance. (1) The warden once every six months shall make out and present for settlement to the proper auditing officer of the United States for this state a certified account of the amount which shall then be due and unsettled for the support and maintenance of United States convicts in the state prison of this state. (2) Whenever said account shall have been audited and allowed, as provided by law, the warden shall file with the secretary of state a copy of such account with the amount allowed thereon. The secretary of state shall thereupon draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount so allowed, payable to the warden out of the state treasury, when the same shall be received from the United States, [Stats. 1917 s. 4932, 4933, 1919 c. 348 s. 19.] 53.18 Special report. The warden when making his biennial' report shall include therein the number of United States convicts in the prison at the date of such report, the whole number therein during the preceding term, the number received and the number discharged during the same time, the amount received from the general government for their support and maintenance and also the amount that may then be due and unaudited for like purposes. [Stats. 1917 s. 4934; 1919 c. 348 s. 20.] CHAPTER 54 THE STATE REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR WOMEN 54.01 Objects; service of process. 54.02 Sentence and commitment. 54.03 Nature and effect of sentences. 54.04 Trial and commitment records; execution. 54.05 Custody and discipline; allowances for good conduct. 54.06 Institutional record. 54.07 Transfers of convicts. 54.01 Objects; service of process. (1) The objects of the Wisconsin state reformatory and the Wisconsin industrial home for women are to correct and remove those criminal or evil tendencies and influences which render the persons confined therein a menace to society, and help them to become good citizens. (2) The board of control shall equip and maintain one ward or department of the said industrial home with suitable hospital facilities for the treatment of women afflicted with venereal disease; and shall also equip and maintain a psychological laboratory for the study and treatment of mental disorders to which women and girls addicted to immoral practices are subject. Such females shall be committed for treatment and such industrial training as shall enable them to support themselves properly, and shall be subject to such examinations, treatments, operations and tests, under the regulations of the board, as may be deemed necessary by the state board of health to improve their physical and mental condition. (3) All process served within the precints of the reformatory or industrial home, either upon those committed thereto, or upon officers or employes other than the superintendent, shall be served and returned by the superintendent; and all officers and employes of either institution shall be exempt from military duty, serving on juries in any court, and highway poll tax. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944a, 4944-r, 4944-x sub. 2; 1919 c. 349 s. 2.] 54.02 Sentence and commitment. (1) Male persons not less than seventeen nor more than thirty, and female citizens of this state not less than eighteen nor more than thirty years of age, of the following classes, may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced and committed, respectively, to the said reformatory or industrial home, namely: Class one: Persons convicted for the first time of a felony, except male persons convicted of murder in the first or second degree, and female persons convicted of murder in the first, second or third degree. Class two: Male persons convicted the first time, and female persons whenever convicted, of any misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or house of correction for one year or more. Class three: Female prisoners convicted of any other misdemeanor. (2) Persons previously convicted and committed by the juvenile court shall be classified as above, as though no such previous conviction had occurred. [Stats, 1917 s. 4944c, 4944-n; 1919 c. 349 s. 4.1 54.03 Nature and effect of sentences. (1) Except as provided in subsections 2, 3, and 4, the sentence of any person belonging to either of said classes one or two shall be for a specific term, not less than one year, within the limits of imprisonment prescribed by law for the offense of which he is convicted, which term shall commence at the time prescribed in section 4733 for the commencement of terms of sentence to the state prison. (2) Upon the recommendation of the superintendent and the board of control, the governor may without the procedure required by chapter 57 of these statutes, discharge absolutely, or upon such conditions and restrictions, and under such limitations, as he may think proper, any inmate of the reformatory after he shall have served the minimum term of punishment prescribed by law for the offense for which he was sentenced. Such discharge shall have the force and effect of an absolute or conditional pardon, respectively. (3) The court may, in its discretion, sentence any such female person belonging to class one or two to the industrial home for women for a general or indeterminate term not less than the minimum nor more than the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed by law for the offense, such term to be not less than one year. Such general sentence shall be substantially as follows: "You are sentenced to the Wisconsin industrial the offense) years, and not more than |