TITLE I Of the State Prison and the Discharge of Prisoners therefrom before their Term of Service expires. CHAP. I. OF THE STATE PRISON, §§ 1573-87. II. OF THE DISCHARGE OF PRISONERS BEFORE THE EXPIRATION OF THEIR TERM OF SERVICE, §§ 1590-5. § 1573. CHAPTER I. OF THE STATE PRISON. Under the charge and control of a board of directors. § 1574. President pro tem of Senate, when to act as director. § 1575. Compensation of directors. § 1580. § 1581. § 1582. Board must keep accounts and report to the governor. § 1585. Board cannot contract debts. § 1586. Compensation for transportation of convicts. § 1587. Contract to be given at public letting. 1573. The State prison is under the charge, control, and superintendence of a board of directors, consisting of a governor, lieutenant governor, and secretary of state. 1574. In case of a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor, the president pro tem. of the Senate may perform the duties and receive the compensation provided for the lieutenant governor. 1575. The board of directors are to receive the sum of seventy-five dollars per month each, for expenses incurred by them; in addition to which the lieutenant governor is paid the sum of ten dollars per day for each day's services rendered in the performance of any duty at the prison. 1576. The board must adopt rules and regulations for the discipline of prisoners and the government of the prison, which rules must be printed, and copies thereof furnished to every officer appointed by the board. 1577. The board may appoint a warden, clerk, and such other officers as may be necessary for the management and safe-keeping of the prisoners. 1578. The clerk must keep a record of the transactions of the board, and he and the warden and other officers appointed must perform such other duties as are required by the board, or the rules and regulations adopted thereby. 1579. The warden and other officers appointed must make a monthly report to the board, which must contain a statement of business done and transactions had in their several departments. 1580. The board must keep correct accounts of all funds received from proceeds of convict labor, and appropriate such funds to the maintenance of the convicts and to the payment of prison expenses, and must make a full report to the governor on the first Monday of each August next before the assembling of the Legislature, which report must contain a complete statement of the number and condition of the prisoners at the prison; the number and character of officers they have appointed, and the monthly pay received by each; the amount of expenses incurred, and for what; the amount and condition of personal property, belonging to the State, connected with the State prison; and the actual condition of the buildings and property. 1581. The authorities of the State prison must receive into the prison any person convicted of an offense against the United States, and keep such person in solitary confinement or at hard labor, or in confinement with or without hard labor, as provided in the order of the court pronouncing sentence, until legally discharged, the United States supporting such convict, and paying the expenses of the execution of his sentence. PEN. CODE.-58. |