In any county where there are not a sufficient number of convicts to make it economically feasible for such county to own and operate a county convict farm as provided for by law, the board of supervisors of any such county may agree with the board of supervisors of any contiguous county to own and operate in common with such contiguous county, a county convict farm upon which prisoners of both such counties may be detained and required to work. In like manner the board of supervisors of any county in which there are not a sufficient number of convicts to make it economically feasible to own and operate a county convict farm, may make similar arrangements with any city, town or village within said county to own and operate said farm in connection with said city, town or village. In any county where there are not a sufficient number of convicts to make it economically feasible for such county to own a farm or to own and operate a farm with a contiguous county or with a city or town, the board of supervisors of such county may contract with the board of supervisors of any contiguous county or with any county in the same circuit or chancery court district, to have its prisoners worked by the contiguous county or counties in the same circuit or chancery court district upon payment made to the board of supervisors of such contiguous county or counties in the same circuit or chancery court district for the purpose of detaining and working such prisoners. The terms of such a contract are to be agreed upon by and between the two contracting boards and the same shall not be in violation of the law. Where the board of supervisors of one county so contracts to work convicts of another county, all the provisions of Sections 47-1-1 through 47-1-37, Sections 47-1-41, 47-1-45, 47-1-47, and 47-1-61, Mississippi Code of 1972, and Section 226 of the Constitution in regard to the working of convicts shall apply to the convicts contracted for as herein provided; and the name of the convict or convicts may be entered on the jail docket of the county contracting to detain and work the convict or convicts, together with all other information required by Section 47-1-21.
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