No convict shall be credited with any wages during the time of his or her escape; and if any convict escapes while being worked on a public road, or works or county farm, he or she may be pursued and retaken by any person, or officer authorized to make arrests, or board, or any one entitled to the custody or services of said convict; and when retaken such convict shall be required to work out the balance of his term of hire, not counting the period of such escape, even if the term of imprisonment and the time for which such convict was first hired had expired before the recapture. Such convict shall be liable to indictment for such escape and liable to the same punishment as for an escape from the custody of the county jail.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole
Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners
§ 47-1-1. Enforcement of sentences
§ 47-1-3. County convicts; duty of board of supervisors
§ 47-1-5. County convicts; board of supervisors may lease or buy suitable lands
§ 47-1-9. Convicts may be worked on public roads or other county public works
§ 47-1-11. Convicts physically unable shall not be required to work
§ 47-1-15. Deductions from sentence for efficient work
§ 47-1-17. When convict not credited with wages
§ 47-1-21. Sheriff to keep a jail docket; what to contain
§ 47-1-23. The sexes to be kept separate
§ 47-1-25. Officers to have access to convicts
§ 47-1-27. Maltreatment forbidden
§ 47-1-29. Complaint of convicts investigated
§ 47-1-31. Grand jury to examine records and treatment of prisoners
§ 47-1-33. Each convict to have evidence of term of sentence and amount of fine
§ 47-1-37. Board of supervisors may hire additional labor to work on county farm
§ 47-1-43. Keeping of county offenders in municipal jails pending trial
§ 47-1-49. Control over jails owned jointly by municipalities and counties
§ 47-1-51. Jointly owned jails; jail supplies