Each county officer or officers, for any district of a county shall at all times have free access to convicts in the custody of any official for the purpose of investigating their condition and treatment. The sheriff or his deputies shall visit the convict camp or county farms where the convicts of his county are kept or worked at least once in every month and more often if necessary. He shall make a thorough inspection and investigation of the treatment of convicts and report the same in writing to the board of supervisors. For failure to perform duty in this respect the board of supervisors may fine the sheriff Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00).
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