The jailer of a jail jointly owned by a county and a municipality shall, in regard to municipal prisoners, provide daily wholesome and sufficient food and drink, fire and lights when necessary and proper, and sufficient and clean bedding for all such prisoners committed to the jail, either before or after conviction. Any prisoner may, if he thinks fit, supply himself with meat and drink and bedding, but the same shall pass through the hands of the jailer to the prisoner.
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