Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

the inclemency of the season, and also
with garments of coarse material suited
to and sufficient for the season; and he
shall furnish them with suficiency OF
coarsef but wholesome food, with such
alienation of food as in the opinion OF the
physician of the penitentiary shall be
most conducive to the health of the prls-
oners; and it shall be the duty of the
warden, when in his opinion it shall be
necessary, to employ suitable persons to
instruct the prisoners in any work In
which they may be employed, when the
same is for State purposes, and during
part of the time of his or her confne-
ment as the court before whom such con-
viction may be had shall direct to be in
solitary cells, such prisoner shall be con-
fined in the solitary cells, atsuch intervals
and in such manner as the warden and
+ directors may deem proper; and one or
more guards shall patrol said peniten-
tiary at least twice in every hour during
the night, until the hour of labor on the
succeeding morning.
Sec. 49, 1t shall not be lawful to make
use of shower bath in the punishment
of convict, but it shall be lawful to
punish prisoners for the infraction of the
discipline, by solitary confinement in
dark cells, and by deprivation of food
other than bread and water, and any of
fcer who shall violate any Of the provis-
ions of this act, shall be discharged from
his Office at the discretion of the direc-
tors or warden. The bylaws regulating
the discipline of the prison shall be
printed in the language of the convict
and posted in each cell, and otherwise
published so each prisoner shall know
them.
Sec. 20. 1t shall be the duty of the
deputy warden to keep book, in which
shall be entered record of every in
fraction of the published rules of dis
cipline, with the name of the prisoner SO
guilty, and the punishment inflicted
therefor, which record shall be submitted
to the directors at their regular session;
and every prisoner who may have been
sentenced for term of years, who shall
at the end of each month, have no in
fraction of the discipline so recorded
against him, shall for the first month be
entitled to a dimunition of one day from
the time he was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary and if at the end of the next
month no infraction of the discipline is
recorded against him, he shall be enti-
tied to two additional days dimunition
from his sentence; and if he shall con-
, tinue to have no such record against him
a third month, his time shall be short
ened three additional days; and he shall
be entitled to five days dimunition OF
, time from his sentence for each subse-
quent month he shall so continue in his
good behavior; and if any prisoner shall
so pass the whole time Of his sentence,
? he shall be entitled to certificate
thereof from the warden, and upon pre-
t sentation thereof to the Governor, he
, shall be entitled to a restoration Of al
rights Of citizenship which may have
been forfeited by his conviction; and ii
: shall be the duty of the warden to dis
} charge such convict from the peniten-
tiary when he shall have served the time
, Of his sentence less the number of days
: he may be entitled to have deducted
5 therefrom, in the same manner as if no
such deduction had been made; provided
that if such convict shall be guilty Of
the violation of the printed and pub,
) lished rules of the prison after he shall
+ as provided in this section, have become
: entitled to dimupition of his term Of
: service to which he has been sentenced
t the directors shall have the power to de
2 prive, at their discretion, such convic
e of portion or all (according to the fla
] GRANGE of such violation Of discipline)
| Of the dimunition of the term of sentence
to which he had previously been by thi:
e act entitled; and the warden shall make
, known to the convicts the provisions O.
a this section when they are received into
l the prison.
;, Sec. 21. The warden shall furnish t.
2 each prisoner sufficient light to enable
him to read from the time he is shut III
e in the evening until the rin ging of thu
: bell for going to bed, unless the warder
r has good cause to believe that convic
is making improper use thereof, in which
n case he shall not be so furnished.
: Sec. % And provided, always, tina
: nothing in this act shall be so construed
n as to interfere with existing contracts fo
: prison labor, unless by consent of par
: ties, in the event of which the same shall
r be indorsed upon the original contrac
e and signed by the parties, which shall
: be binding in all respects as though NJ
r change had been made.
|, Sec. %. The directors and warden o
e the penitentiary shall, fiom time t.
i time, establish by laws, rules and regu
1t lations for the discipline and governmen
thereof, and the warden, for himself an,
e assistants, shall be held responsible fo
20 the observance and enforcement of sucl
'e bylaws, rules and regulations; provided
% always, that such by laws, rules and reg
le ulations shall not be contrary to law; an
'r the directors shall submit such bylaws
"a rules and regulations, to the legislator
is at each session thereof; and provided
IS always, that nothing in this act shall b
p so construed as to prevent officers of tn
l. Ohio penitentiary from holding thei
=. respective Offices until their successor
n, in office shall be appointed and qualified
r Sec. "a. The warden and director
OF may enter into contracts for working th
e. convicts upon such branches of busine:
ne as, in their Judgment, will best subser1
e, the interests of the State, and tend
Mt promote the welfare of the prisoners:
ny See. 25. The hospital of the penitel
ne tiary shall, under such condition as the
lis rectors, warden and physician may pr
vide, be accessible to the professors al
H. students of Startling Medical College, az
he other physicians of Columbus. once
IT. week during the annual college term
on for clinical instruction, provided that l
er convict shall be subjected by such pr
u fessors to any involunt9ry examinatic
,rs or surgical operation.