Convict Labor, Volume 905

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - 794 pages

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Page 627 - ... heretofore allowed by law, a deduction of two months in each of the first two years, four months in each of the next two years, and five months in each...
Page 670 - The s,aid board of managers shall also have power to establish rules and regulations under which prisoners within the reformatory may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the reformatory buildings and enclosure, but to remain while on parole in the legal custody and under the control of the board of managers and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of said reformatory...
Page 725 - This section shall not be construed to prevent the Legislature from providing that convicts may work for, and that the products of their labor may be disposed of to the State or any political division thereof...
Page 721 - January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, no person in any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade. Industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his work, or the product or profit of his work, shall be fanned out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation.
Page 727 - Such keeper shall cause each prisoner committed to his jail for imprisonment under sentence, to be constantly employed at hard labor when practicable, during every day, except Sunday, and the board of supervisors of the county, or judge of the county, may prescribe the kind of labor at which such prisoner shall be employed...
Page 764 - ... shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not...
Page 722 - ... institutions of the State, and political divisions thereof, supported wholly or in part by the State, or any political division thereof, to furnish to said commission, annually, estimates for each ensuing year of the amount of labor to be required by...
Page 785 - Upon a sentence of not less than six months nor more than one year, five days for each month; upon a sentence of more than one year and less than three years, six days for each month; upon a sentence of not less than three years and less than five years, seven days...
Page 677 - That any corporation, merchant or other person violating the provisions of this act, shall on conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in the parish jail, for not less than thirty days, for each offense, at the discretion of the court.
Page 739 - Elmira, and the courts of this state imposing such sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof. The term of such imprisonment, of any person so convicted and sentenced, shall be terminated by the...

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