Removal of convicts to penitentiary. 12 Board of Control to have control of Ratification of lease-Rate.. 30 Board to be appointed....... 13 the health and religious regula- 32 1855-366. 1. [SEC. 2833.] Each Sheriff shall be the keeper of the public jail of his parish, and shall, by all lawful means, preserve the peace Sheriff keeper and apprehend all disturbers thereof, and other public offenders. of jail. 2. [SEC. 2834.] The Police Juries in each and every parish of this State, and the Common Council of New Orleans, shall have power 1816-24-1. to pass such by-laws and regulations as they may deem expedient Police Juries to for the police and good government of the jails and public prisons in their parishes respectively. regulate the po 3. [SEC. 2835.] A Physician shall be annually appointed by the Police Jury in each and every parish, who shall attend such prisoners 1817-206-4. as are at the charge of the State whenever they are sick. His salary be appointed. shall be fixed by the Police Jury. Physicians to Provisions to be furnished prisoners. 4. [SEC. 2836.] The Sheriffs, Jailers, Prison-keepers, and their 1814-38-2 & 3. Deputies, shall furnish to each and every prisoner the following per diem allowance of sound and wholesome provisions, to wit: One pound of beef, or three-quarters of a pound of pork; one pound of wheaten bread; one pound of potatoes or one gill of rice, and at the rate of four quarts of vinegar and two quarts of salt to every one hundred rations. 1817-206-3. Clothing to be furnished. 1850-86-1. Prisoners to the jail of another parish. 5. [SEC. 2837.] In addition to the nourishment allowed by law to such prisoners as are confined for crimes and misdemeanors, they shall, at the beginning of the winter season, be allowed each one blanket capot, one shirt, one pair of woolen trousers and one pair of coarse shoes, and a shirt and a pair of trousers of coarse linen for summer; and twelve and a half cents per day shall further be allowed to the keeper of the jail for each and every prisoner who is sick, in order that the said sick prisoners may be taken care of as their situation may require. 6. [SEC. 2839.] Whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction of any Judge or Justice of the Peace, exercising jurisdiction in be transfemed any parish of this State, that the jail of the parish is unsafe or unfit for the security of prisoners, it shall be the duty of the Judge or Justice of the Peace to issue his writ to the Sheriff or other officer of the parish, commanding him to convey any prisoner whom he may have in custody, to the nearest jail in any adjoining parish, in a safe condition, the prisoner there to remain until the jail of the first mentioned parish shall be repaired, until trial, or until he may be discharged by due course of law; and it shall be the duty of the Sheriff of the parish to which the prisoner shall be conveyed, to keep the said prisoner safe and secure, and subject to all judicial orders or decrees issuing from the parish from which the prisoner may have been sent, for which the said Sheriff shall receive the same compensation as is allowed by law in other cases, to be paid by the parish from whence the prisoner was sent. 1814-38-1. United States prisoners to be received. 7. [SEC. 2841.] All the Sheriffs, Jailers, Prison-keepers, and their Deputies, within this State, to whom any person shall be sent or committed by the Marshal of the District of Louisiana, or his Deputies, under the authority of the United States, whether on civil or criminal process, or upon any process or warrant which may be issued by the President of the United States, or those to whom he may delegate authority for any cause whatever under the law of the United States, shall be and they are hereby enjoined and required to receive such prisoners into custody, and keep the same safely, until they shall be discharged by due course of law; and all such Sheriffs, Jailers, Prison-keepers and their Deputies, offending in the premises, shall be liable to the same pains and penalties, and the parties aggrieved shall be entitled to the same remedies against them or any of them, as if such prisoners had been committed to their custody by virtue of legal process issued under the authority of this State. 1870-161. 8. [SEC. 2842.] For keeping such prisoner, the Sheriffs, Jailers, 1814-38-2. etc., shall be entitled to demand and receive of the Marshal of the Compensation for keeping District, quarterly at the rate of sixty cents for every ration, and them. fifty cents per month for each prisoner. paid debtors in 1855-151. 9. [SEC. 2843.] No debtor shall be kept in confinement at the 1855-42. suit of any creditor, unless he shall pay the keeper of the jail three Allowance to be dollars and fifty cents a week in advance for the use of the debtor. Confinement. 10. [SEC. 2847.] All convicts sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, by any of the courts of this State, shall be conveyed, by the Sheriff of the parish in which the prisoner has been convicted, labor to be to the Penitentiary at Baton Rouge, and there delivered to the Penitentiary. keeper of the Penitentiary. Convicts sen tenced to hard taken to the 1855-305. Grand Jury respect prisons. quired to in 11. [SEC. 2848.] Every grand jury is required to inspect the prisons within their respective districts and make report, to the Judge of said court, of the manner in which the prisoners are treated, and if any of the Sheriffs, Jailers, Prison-keepers, or any of their Deputies, should be presented by them for not having com- jailers not com plying with plied with the laws regulating the treatment of prisoners, he or laws regulating they shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. PENITENTIARY AT BATON ROUGE. Penalty against treatment of prisoners. 1865-52. Removal of con 12. [SEC. 2849.] In order to secure to the State some return for the cost of clothing and feeding the large number of convicts Extra session, under sentence of the courts for high crimes, and in order that their labor may be made useful to the State, the Governor be and is victs to Penihereby empowered to have said prisoners removed to the State Penitentiary, at Baton Rouge, there to be confined and controlled, as hereinafter provided in this act. tentiary. appointed. 13. [SEC. 2850.] The Governor is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the term of two years, Board to be for the general supervision of said Penitentiary, five competent citizens, residing in the vicinity of the prison, to be styled, "The Board of Control of the Louisiana Penitentiary," who shall have direction and control in the management of the same. 14. [SEC. 2851.] The members of said Board of Control shall meet at least twice in each month at the office of the Penitentiary, To meet twice a month. Compensation $250. and hold their sessions from day to day, until all business connected to each member with the prison be disposed of. Each member of the Board, for his services, shall receive as full compensation, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be drawn semi-annually on the warrant of the President of the Board. Duty of the Salaries, how fixed. 1858-222. Inventory and appraisement of machinery, etc. kept by the Clerk. 15. [SEC. 2852.] It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep accurate accounts of all moneys received and expended, of the provisions and clothing furnished the prisoners, the cost of the same, and report quarterly to the Board of Control; and it shall be the duty of the latter to transmit the same, with their report, annually, to the Governor at least ten days before the meeting of the General Assembly. For his services, the Clerk shall receive a salary, to be fixed by the Board of Control, to be drawn quarterly on the warrant of the President of the Board. The compensation of the Chief Warden, the Physician, the officer over the guard, and the police necessary to perform the duty of guarding the prisoners, shall be fixed by the Board, and the sums paid, as provided for in the case of the Clerk; provided, that the salaries, so fixed by the Board, shall first be transmitted to the Governor for his approval. 16. [SEC. 2853.] An inventory and appraisement shall be made of all the machinery, tools, and other fixtures on hand at the commencement of the lease, for which the lessee or lessees shall give a receipt and bind himself or themselves to return in good condition, or others of equal value, at the end of the lease. 17. [SEC. 2854.] The Clerk of the Penitentiary shall keep a Register to be register, in which shall be entered the names in full of all convicts, with the date of their reception, the term of their imprisonment, the parish where, and the crime for which they were convicted, their ages, sexes, color, and places of their nativity, and the date of their discharge or death, which shall be open to the inspection of the public. 18. [SEC. 2855.] The convicts may be employed in such manuHow convicts facturing, mechanical and other labor, as the lessees may deem proper, but no convict shall be employed without the walls of the Penitentiary. may be em ployed. Money and clothes to be furnished discharged convicts. Clergymen to be appointed to preach to convictsTheir salary. 19. [SEC. 2856.] The lessees shall furnish each convict, at the expense of the institution, at his or her discharge, with ten dollars and a coarse suit of citizen's clothes, if required to do so by the Board of Control. 20. [SEC. 2857.] The lessee or lessees, with the sanction of the Board of Control, shall employ five clergymen, of different denominations, if there are so many in the city of Baton Rouge, to preach every Sabbath, alternately, to the convicts, whose salary shall be one hundred dollars each per annum, to be paid by the lessees, and charged to the current expenses of the institution; and the said Guards; how lessee or lessees shall have power to appoint such guards as he or they may deem necessary, to be paid in like manner. appointed. on hand, how 21. [SEC. 2858.] The said lessee or lessees shall purchase from the State all raw materials which may be on hand, at a price to be Raw material fixed by two sworn appraisers, one to be appointed by the Governor disposed of. and one by the said lessees, with power to appoint an umpire; for said price the said lessees shall give his or their bond, payable at the expiration of six months; and at the expiration of the lease, should it not be renewed, the State will take from the lessees all such raw material then on hand at a like appraisement, and on a like credit. sician and 22. [SEC. 2859.] The duties of the Physician and Chaplains shall be prescribed by the Board of Control, and shall be so per- Duties of phyformed as to secure constant attention to the health and moral and chaplains. religious instruction of the convicts. 23. [SEC. 2860.] The Board of Control are hereby authorized nished convicts to furnish such books as they may consider useful to the convicts, Books to be furnot to exceed annually the sum of one hundred dollars, chargeable to the current expenses of the institution. 1848-Extra Clerk to keep register of births. Convicts for life to labor sepa 24. [SEC. 2861.] It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Peni- session-3-2. tentiary to keep a register of the births in the Penitentiary. 25. [SEC. 2862.] The convicts in the Penitentiary whose sentences have been commuted from death to imprisonment, either for 1844-43-8. life or for a term of years, shall no longer be permitted to labor in company with the other convicts; but shall be employed apart from them, and as soon as the necessary changes in the cells can be made, shall be confined and made to labor alone, on the plan in force at the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania; those changes to be made under the direction of the Board of Directors. ately from the others. 26. [SEC. 2863.] For the purpose of encouraging exemplary 1842-520-6. conduct in the convicts, and as a reward for the same, the Board of How rewarded for good con Directors shall have power to remit a small portion of the term of duct. any convict. It shall in no case exceed two days per month, and one month shall intervene between each remission; a book shall be kept by the Clerk, in which shall be recorded a brief statement of the circumstances and reasons of each remission, and the name of the convict, which book is to be submitted to the inspection of the Directors and the Committees of the Legislature. |