The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1889-04-25

less incapacitated.
The law provides for one or more of three
systems of employment-state account
system. contract system. and piece price
system. The adoption of one or more of
the systems is left to the discretion of the
board of managers. Not more than one
half the cOnvicts shall be employed under
shall not exceed the term of two years Con-
victs shall not be leased to contractor or
lessee for less than the sum of forty five cents
a day for actual work. Provided that such
lease shall not preclude the withdrawal of
any convict and the substitution in his
place of another when deemed for the best
interest of the convict by the Warden.
In case the board of managers deems it
proper to advertise for sealed proposals for
the lease of shops, yard room, fixtures, etc.
separately from bids for the labor of con-
victs, they shall have power so to do, and
they shall also have power and authority to
advertise for bids for the labor of cOnvicts
separately from proposals for the lease of
shops, fixtures. etc.
The law provides that the call for sealed
bids or proposals shall be published in one
of the capital city dailes and one of the
county papers for period of three weeks
next preceding the time fixed for opening
such proposals. A copy of the conditions
bidders are subject to shall be placed for
their inspection in the hands of the Warden
for at least twenty days prior to the day
fixed for the opening of such proposals.
The Warden shall receive and preserve all
the proposals. On the day specified in the
published notice the managers shall proceed
publicly at once to open and canvass such of
them as shall be substantially in the form
prescribed in the published notice. The
managers shall retain complete control of
the cOnvictS.
The managers may employ convicts on
state account in such industries as may APP
pear best to them.
Managers and officers are not to be in
terested in or connected with business or
contract
The law provides for an appropriation of
$4,000.
EXTRACTS FROM THE NEW REFORMATORY
LAW.
The board of managers of the reform
atory and state prison board of managers
will meet in joint session in St. Paul On the
second Tuesday in May and prescribe rules
and regulations for the transfer of cOnvicts
from the state prison to the reformatOry.
The law provides that.
No life convicts shall be transferred from the
State Prison to the State Reformatory until he
shall have first served term in the State Prison
of at least twenty-one (2D years, less the dimnu-
ton which would have been allowed by law for
good conduct had he been sentenced for term of
twenty-one years. They shall also consider any
matters that may be brought to their attention
pertaining to the joint interest of the two nstitu
tons: and shall take such action they shall
deem proper thereupon.
No life convict who shall have been transferred
to the State Reformatoy shall be paroed until the
approval and authority of the governor shall have
been given tor such parole, and no such paroled
life convics, shall be Internationally released by
the board of managers: but such convict shall re-
main in the legal custody Of the said board of
managers and be subject at any time. to be taken
back within the enclosure Of said refOrmatory,
during the term of his natural life, unless the gov
ernor shall sooner issue pardon for such
Wet
loving to the late hour at which we re-
ceived copies of the bills we were able to
print only few extracts. There are many
other important features which we will
publish next week.
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