Effective: October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When the board of county commissioners has secured property and completed arrangements for the working of its prisoners as provided in section 5147.16 of the Revised Code, a court or magistrate may sentence persons convicted of offenses, the punishment of which is, in whole or in part, imprisonment in the county jail or workhouse, to be imprisoned at hard labor within such county for the same terms or periods as are prescribed for their confinement in such jail or workhouse.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Section 5147.07 | Purchasing Supplies.
Section 5147.12 | Labor of Prisoners Not to Be Sold.
Section 5147.14 | Authority to Procure Equipment.
Section 5147.15 | Employment of Prisoners.
Section 5147.16 | Purchase or Lease Beds of Limestone, or Other Suitable Road-Building Material.
Section 5147.17 | Sentence of Hard Labor in County.
Section 5147.18 | Duty of County Commissioners to Work Prisoners at Hard Labor.
Section 5147.19 | Control of Prisoners at Hard Labor.
Section 5147.20 | Resentence of Prisoner Sick or Incapacitated for Work.
Section 5147.21 | Board of County Commissioners May Employ Superintendent.
Section 5147.22 | Earnings of Prisoners.
Section 5147.27 | Temporary Details to Specified Labor.
Section 5147.28 | Court May Establish Work-Release Program.
Section 5147.29 | Collection and Disbursal of Prisoner's Earnings From Work-Release Program.