Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
No. 921, Al Published June 10, 1907.
CHAPTER 236. LAWS OF 1907,


CHAPTER 236, LAWS OF 1907.
AN ACT to amend subdivisions as
amended, and 5, of section 564, sections
566a, 603 and GOA. statutes of 1893, re-
lating to the duties Of the state board
of control
The people of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows
Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 564,
statutes of 1898, as amended by chapter
226, laws of 1899, Ia amended to read
3. To examine plans and specifications for
such asylums and for poorhouses, houses Of
approve the same when they are such
as in its Judgment are adapted to the pur-
pose for which designed. No such building
shall be constructed until the plans and
specifications therefor have been so ap-
proved. Immediately prior. to the occu-
pancy of any such building and semi,
shall inspect either as board or by COM
mittee thereof, the equipment and service
for protection against fire, the water sup
ply for domestic and fire purposes and the
thereof. For the purposes herein specified
said board may, by resolution duly adopt
ed and recorded, engage the services OF
an expert to report and make such recon-
mendations as he may deem necessary in
the premises. The fees and expenses of
such expert shall be paid by the county In
which asylum, poor house, house Of correc-
ton, workhouse or jail Is located. In the
event Of any deficiency or defect In the
provision made under the classifcations
above specified, 1t shall be the duty of the
board Of control to Immediately notify the
responsible authorities, In sufficient detail,
Of the extent and character Of the equip
ment necessary, in the premises, and to
direct that the requisite work be done.
If after the expiration of six months from
the date of issuance of such order, the
work be not commenced, or If commenced
be not completed within a reasonable pc
Rod, to the satisfaction Of said board, 1t
shall be their duty to suspend allowance
and payment of the claims against the
state, for such aid as provided for by law,
until such time as the order issued Is
faithfully and acceptably complied with, by
the authorities Of the institution affected
by said order.
Section 2. Subdivision 5 of section 1884,
statutes Of 1898, is amended to read: S. To
investigate the jails, city prisons, houses
of correction, warehouses and all places in
which persons convicted or suspected Of
crime or insane persons are confined to
collect important statistics concerning the
inmates; to ascertain their sanitary condt-
ton, their arrangement for the separation
of the hardened criminals from Juvenile
offenders and from persons suspected of
crime or detained as witnesses; whether
useful employment is furnished prisoners;
how the insane are treated, and what eff
forts are made for the reformation Of
criminals and generally to collect infor-
nation of all important facts or consider
atoms affecting the proper treatment Of
criminals and the dimfnution of crime.
Section 3. Section 566a, statutes of
1898, is amended to read: Whenever in
correction, wOrkhOuse, Jail, police station
or lookup used for the confinement Of
prisoners is dangerous to the health or life
of the persons who are confined therein, or
is so constructed as not to hold them Sc
curey or as not to permit their separation
as provided for by law, 1t shall be Its duty
to notify the body having the necessary
authority in the premises by filing a writ
ten notice with the clerk Of such body
stating the facts at which it has arrived,
and whether, in its opinion, the existing
conditions of the place so used can be RENE
died by making repairs, or whether new
house Of correction, workhouse, Jail, police
station or lookup shall be provided. II
within one year after such notice Is filed
the repairs necessary to put such place OF
confinement in suitable condition are not
made or a new place Is not provided, the
correction, workhouse, jail, police station
or lookup by filing written order to that
effect with the county clerk of the county
In which the Ss of 6e in tbe
case of house Of correction or Jail, or
with the city or village clerk in the case
Of police station or lookup. After such
order is filed it shall not be lawful 70 CON
fine prisoners in the place specified therein,
and it shall be the duty Of the sheriff OF
the county, the chief Of police, city or
village marshal or constable as the case
may be, to Immediately transfer all pris-
oners confined therein to some other suit
able place of confinement and thereafter
not to use such condemned place for con-
fning prisoners therein; provided, that
such order Of condemnation shall not take
effect without the approval Of the judge
of TIE circuit in which the county contain
ing the place so condemned Is situated and
provided further, that such board may at
any time for reasons which to 1t may seem
sufficient, and with the approval of such
Judge, revoke its order Of condemnation
and extend the time for issuing such order
not to exceed year additional from the
time Of fling its first notice.
Section A. Section 603. tatutes Of 1898,
is amended to read Section COB. ANY
county board may, with the. consent Of this
state board Of control, purchase a site for
an asylum for the chronic insane or site
for house Of correction or workhouse,
and erect thereon, pursuant to plans, draw
ings and specifications approved by said
board of CONTROL buildings for the care
Of such insane or the detention of pris-
oners or inmates, and levy taxes and issue
bonds to defray the cost of such site or
sites and buildings. furnishing the latter
for use and maintaining the same. The
acts of all county boards relating to the
purchase of site and the erection Of
buildings thereon for such purpose, taken
or had before the twentyseventh day OF