Effective: September 3, 1970
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 460 - 108th General Assembly
In counties which have secured property and completed arrangements for the working of their convicts, the board of county commissioners, whenever practicable, shall cause to be worked as provided in sections 5147.01 to 5147.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code, all convicts sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, and also all male convicts, physically capable of performing hard labor, confined in the county jail or workhouse for failure to pay a fine in criminal prosecution, or who plead insolvency or inability to pay such fine. A person confined for failure to pay a fine shall be released when the fine has been discharged by his labor at the rates to be fixed by such board.
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.