or discharged, and any good time earned in either institution by inmates transferred to or from the state prison shall be allowed in the institution to which they have been transferred. Subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section 53.12 shall apply to inmates of the reformatory. [Stats. 1917 s. 49441, 4944i, 4944—o sub. 7; 1919 c. 349 s. 9]

54.06 Institutional record. When any convict shall be received into said reformatory or industrial home the board of control shall cause to be entered in a register, the date of such admission, the name, age, nativity, and nationality, with such other facts as may be obtained as to the parentage, education and previous environments of said inmate. A semiannual entry shall be made on such register of the progress made by each inmate, and in case such inmate is paroled, an entry shall be made on such register of that fact, and also a statement as to her condition at the time of parole. Such register shall show at all times the progress made by the inmates who have been placed upon parole. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944-v; 1919 c. 349 s. 11]

54.07 Transfers of convicts. (1) With the approval of the governor any inmate of the reformatory or of the industrial home, belonging to class one, whose continued presence there is considered detrimental to the other inmates may be transferred by the board of control, to the state prison, and his original term of imprisonment shall be continued therein.

(2) Convicts in the state prison and in the Milwaukee county house of correction belonging to class one, and in any county jail belonging to class two, may with like executive approval be transferred from any of these institutions to the reformatory or to the industrial home and may be returned to the institution from which they were respectively taken.

(3) Inmates of the industrial school for boys who have reached the age of seventeen years and inmates of the industrial school for girls who have reached the age of eighteen years, and inmates of other institutions, public or private, who have reached like ages, respectively, and who were committed to said institutions by court orders and were then eligible for commitment to said industrial schools, may also be transferred to the reformatory or to the industrial home, respectively, by the board of control; but such boys may be retained at the reformatory only until they are eighteen years of age. Or they may sooner be returned to the school or to the counties from which they were sent to the school. (4) With each person transferred to the reformatory or to the industrial home from any other institution the warden or superintendent of such other institution shall transmit to the superintendent of the reformatory, or of the industrial home copies of the original commitment of such person, and of his record of service, conduct and history; and with each person transferred from the reformatory or industrial home the superintendent shall furnish to the institution to which such convict is transferred a like record of service, conduct, and personal history of the convict while in the reformatory or industrial home. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944f, 4944g; 1919 c. 349 s. 12] Annotated * †

55.01 Erection and objects of county jails. The county board of each county shall cause to be erected, at the county seat, a county jail, which shall be used:

(1) For the detention of persons charged with offenses and duly committed for trial. (2) For the detention of persons duly committed to secure their attendance as witnesses on the trial of any criminal cause.

(3) For the confinement of persons committed pursuant to a sentence for an offense, or duly committed or held in custody by the sheriff for any cause authorized by law.

(4) For the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment in state penal institutions or the Milwaukee house of correction, until such time as they shall be removed to said institutions. [Stats. 1917 s. 4945; 1919 c. 78 s. 2] Annotated *

55.02 Restrictions on location of prisons. The county jail shall not be located, constructed, or arranged for in the basement of any other building; and no prison, lockup, or temporary place of confinement for insane persons, or persons arrested for breach of ordinance or statute, shall be erected in any village, or city of the third or fourth class, within three hundred feet of any public, private, or parochial school building, or building used regularly or principally for school purposes. [Stats. 1917 s. 566m; 1919 c. 78 s. 3] 55.03 Maintenance of prisoners. All charges for maintaining, while in county institutions, convicts who have been sentenced to confinement in the state penal institutions, prisoners charged with offenses and duly committed for trial, prisoners committed for the nonpayment of fines and expenses, and prisoners sentenced to imprisonment therein, shall be paid out of the county treasury; but no claim shall be allowed to any sheriff or jailer for keeping or boarding any person in the county jail unless such person shall have been committed thereto pursuant to law. [Stats. 1917 s. 4947; 1919 c. 78 s. 4] Annotated * +

55.04 Use of jail in another county. Courts, magistrates and officers of any county having no jail may sentence, commit, or deliver any person to the jail of any other county as if such jail existed in their own county; and the keeper of such jail shall receive and keep the prisoner in all respects as if committed from such other county; but the cost of such keep shall be paid by the county from which the prisoner was sentenced, committed, or delivered. [Stats. 1917 s. 4946; 1919 c. 78 s. 5] Annotated*

55.05 Removal of prisoners in case of fire or other casualty. (1) If the prisoners in any prison shall be exposed to danger by fire or other casualty, the keeper may remove them to a place of safety and there confine them so long as may be necessary to avoid such danger, and such removal and confinement shall not be deemed an escape of such prisoners.

(2) Whenever the county jail in any county shall be destroyed by fire or other casualty or shall be insecure for the safe-keeping of prisoners the sheriff of such county may remove any prisoner to the jail of some other county, where he shall be received and kept the same as if committed thereto, but at the expense of said first mentioned county.

(3) An indorsement on the back of the commitment by which any prisoner is held in custody, made by the sheriff in charge of such prisoner, directed to the jailer or sheriff of such other county, shall be sufficient authority for such jailer or sheriff to hold such prisoner. [Stats. 1917 s. 4955, 4956, 4957; 1919 c. 78 s. 6] Annotated †

55.06 Segregation of prisoners. All jails and other municipal prisons shall be provided with suitable apartments or buildings for the separation of criminals from prisoners not criminal; persons of different sexes; persons alleged to be insane; and children under sixteen years of age. All prisoners shall be kept segregated accordingly. [Stats. 1917 s. 4952; 1919 c. 78 s. 7]

55.07 Maintenance and sanitation of prisoners. (1) The keeper of each prison shall see that the same is constantly kept in a cleanly and healthful condition, and that

strict attention is paid to the personal cleanliness of all the prisoners in his custody, and shall cause the apparel of each prisoner to be properly laundered. He shall furnish each prisoner daily with as much clean water as may be necessary and with a clean towel once a week. He shall serve each prisoner three times daily with wholesome food, well cooked and in sufficient quantity. The county board shall prescribe the diet of the prisoners in the county jail as to kind and fix the maximum compensation to be paid therefor.

(2) Neither the sheriff, jailer or keeper of any prison nor any other person shall, under any pretense, give, sell or deliver to any person committed to prison for any cause whatever any spirituous liquors or any mixed liquor, part of which is spirituous, or any wine, cider or strong beer unless a physician shall certify in writing that the health of such prisoner requires it, in which case he may be allowed the quantity prescribed, and no more.

(3) The keeper of each prison shall furnish necessary bedding, clothing, fuel and medical aid, and in case of a house of correction necessary hospital care and treatment, for all prisoners who shall be in his custody, and shall be paid therefor as provided for the payment for the weekly support of such prisoners and in addition thereto. [Stats. 1917 s. 669 sub. (12), 4949, 4950, 4954; 1919 c. 78 s. 8] Annotated * †

55.08 Bibles and religious instruction. The keeper of each prison shall provide, at the expense of the county, for each prisoner under his charge, who may be able and desirous to read, a copy of the Bible or New Testament, to be used by such prisoner at proper seasons during his confinement; and any minister of the gospel or person duly delegated by any regularly organized Young Men's Christian Association or any other religious association or corporation within the county, disposed to aid in reforming the prisoners and instructing them in their moral and religious duties, shall have access to them at reasonable and proper times. [Stats. 1917 s. 4951; 1919 c. 78 s. 9, 10] Annotated *

55.09 Discipline; solitary confinement. Whenever any person committed to prison for any cause whatever shall be unruly or shall disobey any of the regulations established for the management of prisons the sheriff or keeper may order such prisoner to be kept in solitary confinement and fed on bread and water only for a period not exceeding twenty days for each offense. [Stats. 1917 s. 4953; 1919 c. 78 s. 11]

55.10 Annual inspection. At least once in each year the county board of each county shall visit, inspect and examine each prison therein, as to health, cleanliness and discipline, and the keeper thereof shall lay before it a calendar setting forth the name, age and cause of committal of each prisoner; and if it shall appear to the said board that any of the provisions of law have been violated or neglected it shall forthwith give notice thereof to the district attorney of the county. [Stats. 1917 s. 4948; 1919 c. 78 s. 12]

55.11 Custody of United States prisoners. (1) All sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers and their and each and every of their deputies within the state, to whom any person or persons shall be sent or committed by virtue of legal process issued by or under the authority of the United States, shall be and they are hereby enjoined and required to receive such persons into their custody and to keep them safely until they be discharged by due course of the laws of the United States; and all such sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers and their deputies offending in the premises shall be liable to the same pains and penalties and the parties aggrieved shall be entitled to the same remedies against them or any of them as if such prisoners had been committed to their custody by virtue of legal process issued under authority of this state; provided, that no person sentenced to imprisonment by any court of the United States for a term exceeding eighteen months shall be received in the house of correction of Milwaukee county, the state prison or any other penal institution within this state.

(2) The United States shall be liable to pay for the support and keeping of said prisoners the same charges and allowances as are allowed for the support and keeping of prisoners committed under the authority of this state.

(3) Before every stated term of the United States court to be held within this state the said sheriffs, jailers and prison keepers shall make out, under oath, a calendar of prisoners in their custody under the authority of the United States, with the date of their commitment, by whom committed and for what offense, and transmit the same to the judge of the district court of the United States for the district, and at the end of every six months they shall transmit to the United States marshal for the district, for allowance and payment, their account, if any, against the United States for the support and keeping of such prisoners, as aforesaid. [Stats. 1917 s. 4958, 4959, 4960; 1919 c. 78 s. 13] Annotated *

Breaking rock for highways.

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its, earnings, and rewards.
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contracts with other counties.

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56.10 County workhouses.

56.01 Prison industries and products. (1) The state board of control may establish and conduct various industries, and purchase machinery and raw materials, for the employment of prisoners in the state reformatory and state prison, in the manufacture of articles for the state and its municipalities, including motor vehicle license plates and highway signs and markers, and for sale, by contract or otherwise, to other states or political subdivisions thereof or to the United States government or in the open market; and shall fix the price of all articles produced as near the market price as possible. In fixing the price of motor vehicle license plates and highway signs and markers to the state of Wisconsin or any subdivision thereof the value of labor of each prisoner employed at such work shall be calculated at the rate of one dollar and seventy-five cents per day, of which twenty-five cents may be allowed as pay to the prisoner so employed or as a benefit to his dependents.

(2) The said board may lease or purchase land within the state for the employment of such prisoners at farm work, beds of limestone for the manufacture of fertilizer, and beds of rock for road-building material; and may employ such prisoners and construct temporary barracks for their custody and safe-keeping outside the prison inclosure.

(3) Whenever the said board is prepared to furnish prison products, it shall give notice to the proper officials of the state and each county, or other municipality, of the kind or kinds of products that it is prepared to furnish; and on or before July first in each year thereafter, the officials so notified shall report to said board estimates of the amounts of such prison products which they will require for the ensuing year.

(4) The state, or county, or other municapility, receiving such notice shall not purchase, otherwise than from said board, any products of the kind or kinds specified in said notice, other than road-building material, except upon a permit issued by the said board; and any official who shall violate or participate in the violation of this subsection shall forfeit not to exceed one hundred dollars, for each such violation; but any party aggrieved by a refusal of such permit may appeal to the governor, who may order the granting of such permit, and such order shall be final and conclusive.

(5) The said board shall include in its biennial report to the governor, a statement showing in detail the amount of each of the various articles produced in the prison industries, the disposition of these articles, the cost of the raw material purchased, the new machinery installed and the cost thereof, the land purchased or leased and the cost thereof, and the rates and total amount of wages paid or credited to prisoners pursuant to this section. [Stats. 1917 s. 4918m; 1919 c. 350 s. 2; 1925 c. 386] Annotated †

56.02 Binder twine plant at the state prison. (1) The board of control shall, at a cost not exceeding the sums appropriated therefor, purchase, erect and maintain at the state prison the necessary buildings, machinery and equipment for the manufacture of binder twine, and shall operate such plant.

(2) The warden of the state prison shall give an additional bond to the state of Wisconsin, in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the additional duties devolving upon him in the operation of said binder twine plant, and to be approved by the governor.

(3) The price of the binding twine and cordage manufactured in said plant shall be fixed from time to time by the board of control and the warden of the state prison. The product of said plant shall be sold at such times and places, and in such manner as the

said board and warden shall determine to be for the best interests of the state; but citizens of the state shall have the preference in purchasing said products. [Stats. 1917 s. 4918-1, 4918-14, 4918-15; 1919 c. 350 s. 3]

56.03 Convict labor on the prison farm and on construction of public buildings. The warden of the state prison may employ the convicts outside the prison yard in quarrying or getting stone from and cultivating the prison farm, or in doing any work necessary to be done in the prosecution of the regular business of the institution; and also away from the prison grounds in the construction of buildings being erected by the state. In all such cases the warden shall detail such force from the prison police as he shall deem necessary to watch and guard such convicts; and any such convict who escapes shall be deemed as having escaped from the prison proper. [Stats. 1917 s. 4927; 1919 c. 350 s. 4] 56.04 Convict labor on highways. (1) The board of control may employ inmates of the state prison in the construction and improvement of such roads and highways as the said board and the state highway commission may determine, in such manner and under such terms as may be agreed upon.

(2) The board may purchase or lease such tools and machinery as said board and the state highway commission deem necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section. [Stats. 1917 s. 4937m; 1919 c. 350 s. 5]

56.05 Prison farms. (1) The commissioners of the public lands, the state conservation commission and the state board of control are authorized to select from the state forest reserves a quantity of land not to exceed five thousand acres to be converted into farms for the state prison.

(2) After such selection has been made the board of control shall take possession of said lands and put them in a tillable condition by the employment of the labor of convicts in the state prison. [Stats. 1917 s. 4937n, 49370, 4937p; 1919 c. 350 s. 6]

56.06 Leasing of convict labor. (1) The state board of control is authorized to lease, from time to time, the labor of such portion of the prisoners confined in the state prison, together with such shop room, machinery and power as may be necessary for their proper employment, to such persons, for such purposes, upon such terms and conditions and for such length of time, not exceeding five years at any one time, as it shall deem most conducive to the interests of the state and the welfare of the prisoners.

(2) Before entering into any such contract the board shall, by public advertisement, for at least four weeks in one newspaper published in each of the cities of Milwaukee and Chicago, and in the official state paper, invite sealed proposals for the hiring of such labor and the shop room, machinery and power. Such advertisements shall specify the time and place when and where such proposals will be opened and considered, and shall reserve the right to reject any or all bids.

(3) Every such contract shall reserve to said board and to the warden and each and every of his subordinates full power and authority to prevent the demanding or imposition of unusual or severe labor or labor whereby the health or safety of the convicts may be impaired or jeopardized; and the said board may, from time to time, prescribe all needful rules for the government and conduct of all contractors, their overseers and agents in their relations to the convicts, and may require summary dismissal of any individual employed by any contractor in said prison whenever it shall appear that the presence or the conduct of such individual is prejudicial to the discipline of the prison or the welfare of the convicts.

(4) Adequate security shall be exacted of all contractors for the faithful performance of all the provisions of the contract on their part to be performed, and the board of control shall use its utmost endeavors to have all the terms and conditions of said contract fully complied with on its part; but no contractor shall have or claim from the state of Wisconsin, the state board of control, the warden or from the prison or any of its funds any damages, whether by way of recoupment, setoff or otherwise, for or on account of the failure or neglect of said board to furnish to such contractor the labor of the full number of convicts specified in its contract.

(5) The state board of control may make all needful rules and regulations for the guidance of the warden in the execution of any contract made by it and may, whenever in its judgment it is impracticable to furnish the labor of convicts to any contractor, determine and cancel any contract, and thereupon, after six months' notice to such contractor, all obligations to said board under such contract shall cease and determine, and such contractor shall not have or be entitled to have any compensation, whether by way of damages, setoff, recoupment or otherwise, in consequence thereof. [Stats. 1917 s. 4938, 4939, 4940, 4941, 4943; 1919 c. 350 s. 7]

56.07 Vocational instruction at the reformatory and industrial home. The state board of control may maintain in the state reformatory a manual training school, and