Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

No 606, 81 Published August /, 1913.
CHAPTER 723, LAWS OF 1913.
4944-z, inclusive, and subsections
"a and 90 of section 1877 of the
statutes, to establish a home for the
custody, protection, training and re-
ers, and making an appropriation
therefor.
The people of the State of Wisconsin.
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section l. There are added to the
statutes thirteen new sections and two
new subsections to read: Section 4944
n. There is hereby created and es-
known as the Wisconsin industrial
home for women, to which women be-
tween the ages of sixteen and thirty
belonging to either of the following
classes of Wrongdoers, may, in the
discretion of the judge having juris-
diction, be sentenced and committed
for their protection and reformation;
provided, that no woman convicted of
murder in the first, second or third
degree be sentenced to the said indus
trial home.
Glass One Those, who for the first
time are convicted of felony, that is,
of an offense which may be punished
by Imprisonment in the state prison.
Glass Two Those who have been
found guilty of any misdemeanor
which may be punished by imprison
ment in the county Jail or house Of
correction for one year or more, or Of
any crime less than felony as defined
herein, in class one.
Class Three. Those who are con-
victed by any court or magistrate of
vagrancy, under section 1913, section
1916, or section 1856 of the statutes,
and amendments thereto; those who
are convicted of habitua1 drunkenness,
or of being common prostitute or of
any misdemeanor, or those who are
| Tia4a of h hi
is hereby defined to mean such excess
sive Indulgence in the use of NOR
phine or cocaine or other drugs of like
or similar character as to undermine
the physical strength or will power
or moral character of the individual
SO using it, as to render such person
dangerous to society, menace to the
community, or personally degraded.
Section 4944-o Any person belong
ing to either class one or class two
aforesaid may, in the discretion of the
trial court, be sentenced directly to
the industrial home for women and
may be so sentenced for certain spe-
cific term not less than one year, with
in the limits of imprisonment, pre-
scribed by law for the offense of which
she is convicted, which term shalt
section 4733 of the statutes for the
commencement of terms of sentences
to the Wisconsin state prison.
2. The court may, however, in it's
ulSCTellOil, sentence SuCn person TO the
industrial home for women for a gem
eral or indeterminate term not less
than the minimum nor more than the
| maximum term of Imprisonment in the
state prison or jail, prescribed by law
for the offense. such term to be not
| less than one year.
3. The general sentence shall be
! substantially as follows: "You are
sentenced to the Wisconsin industrial
| home for women for a general or in
determinate term of not less than.
| (the minimum for the offense) .
years, and not more than. .... the
maximum for the offense) ....
years." Such sentence shall have the
| force and effect of a sentence for the
| maximum term, subject to the power
| of release from actual confinement by
parole or absolute discharge herein
/ after conferred or by pardon, or the
court in place, or in lieu of the pen
atty provided by statute, or city or
village ordinance under which said Of
fender is tried, may commit any per-
! son belonging to class two or class
| three aforesaid to the industrial home
| for a general or indetermtnate term
which term shall not exceed five years
in any case, and such commitment shall
be subject to the power of release
from actual confinement, by parole or
absolute discharge hereinafter con-
ferred upon the board Of control IF
Wisconsin, or by pardon.
4. The state board of control Of
Wisconsin may grant a parole to any
inmate of the industrial home to leave
the institution and go at large in case