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MS Code § 45-47-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 47 - DNA Data Bank|§ 45-47-1. DNA samples to be collected from persons arrested for commission or attempted commission of certain crimes of violence; destruction of sample; penalties for obtaining, receiving or disseminating information in DNA data bank without authority

  Every person who is arrested for the commission or attempted commission of a crime of violence as defined in Section 97-3-2 shall provide a biological sample for DNA testing to jail or detention center personnel upon booking. The analysis shall be performed by the Mississippi Forensics Lab or other entity designated by the Department of Public Safety, and the results shall be maintained by the Forensics Lab according to standard protocols adopted for maintenance of DNA records in conformity to federal guidelines for the maintenance of such records.     A DNA sample shall be collected by an individual who is trained in the collection procedures that the Forensics Laboratory uses.   Upon motion of one (1) of the parties, or sua sponte by the court, the court may direct the Forensics Lab to destroy the sample and delete from the database all records thereof if there is no other pending qualifying warrant or capias for an arrest or felony conviction that would require that the sample remain in the DNA data bank if:   The charge for which the sample was taken is dismissed;   The defendant is acquitted at trial or convicted of a lesser-included misdemeanor offense that is not an offense listed in this section;   No charge was filed within the statute of limitations, if any; or   No conviction has occurred, at least three (3) years have passed since the date of arrest, and there is no active prosecution.         Any person who, without authority, disseminates information contained in the DNA data bank shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.   Any person who disseminates, receives, or otherwise uses or attempts to use information in the DNA data bank, knowing that the dissemination, receipt or use is for a purpose other than as authorized by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.   Except as authorized by law, any person who obtains or attempts to obtain any sample for purposes of having DNA analysis performed shall be guilty of a felony.       Any person convicted under subsection (3)(a) shall be sentenced to a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or confinement in the county jail not to exceed thirty (30) days, or both.   Any person convicted under subsection (3)(b) shall be sentenced to a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or confinement in the county jail not to exceed six (6) months, or both.   Any person convicted under subsection (3)(c) shall be sentenced to a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or commitment to the custody of the Department of Corrections not to exceed two (2) years, or both.
MS Code § 47-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-1. Enforcement of sentences

 Every convict sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, or to such imprisonment and the payment of a fine, or the payment of a fine, shall be committed to jail, and shall remain in close confinement for the full time specified for imprisonment in the sentence of the court, and in like confinement, subject to the provisions of Section 99-19-20.1, until the fine, costs and jail fees be fully paid, unless discharged in due course of law, or as hereinafter provided. Subject to the provisions of Section 99-19-20.1, no convict shall be held in continuous confinement under a conviction for any one (1) offense for failure to pay fine and costs in such case for a period of more than one (1) year.
MS Code § 47-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-3. County convicts; duty of board of supervisors

 It is the imperative duty of the board of supervisors in each county in this state to require each convict sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail and the payment of a fine and costs, or to imprisonment and payment of costs, or to payment of fine and costs, to work out the sentence on the county convict farm or on the public roads or other public works of the county, or in a contiguous county, as herein provided. But any convict who is sentenced to the payment of a fine and costs and who pays such fine and costs shall thereby be relieved from working out such fine and costs, but the payment in full of such fine and costs shall not relieve such convict from working out the full time of his imprisonment as adjudged in his sentence. The board of supervisors of any county, however, may by an order spread upon its minutes, giving the reason therefor, and with the approval of the circuit judge of the district, discharge any aged or infirm convict upon his making an affidavit of his insolvency and inability to pay the fine and costs, and filing same with the clerk of the board of supervisors at any time after the expiration of his imprisonment.
MS Code § 47-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-5. County convicts; board of supervisors may lease or buy suitable lands

 In order to carry out the provisions of Section 47-1-3, the board of supervisors of each county in this state are authorized and directed, whenever it may be necessary to buy or lease a sufficient number of acres of land within reasonable and convenient distance of the county jail to be used by the county as a county convict farm. They are also authorized to make any necessary improvements thereon, such as erecting necessary and convenient buildings, clearing, terracing and ditching and leveeing, or otherwise repairing and improving such farm, so that it may be suitable to be used as a farm upon which to work the convicts committed to the county jail, and they shall employ a competent and suitable person to be known as foreman of county farm to superintend such convict farm and manage it and to work the convicts sentenced to the county jail thereon. The board of supervisors in each county shall also have full and complete authority to buy, or rent necessary mules or horses, tractors, farming tools and implements and all other necessary things incidental to the successful operation of such convict farm in such numbers and amounts as they may reasonably contemplate will be necessary to successfully operate such farm, having in view, first, the continuous employment of all the convicts able to work thereon at remunerative labor, and second, the operation of said farm in the most economical manner consistent with the continuous working of such convicts.
MS Code § 47-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-7. Boards of supervisors of contiguous counties may own farm jointly; working prisoners in another county

 In any county where there are not a sufficient number of convicts to make it economically feasible for such county to own and operate a county convict farm as provided for by law, the board of supervisors of any such county may agree with the board of supervisors of any contiguous county to own and operate in common with such contiguous county, a county convict farm upon which prisoners of both such counties may be detained and required to work. In like manner the board of supervisors of any county in which there are not a sufficient number of convicts to make it economically feasible to own and operate a county convict farm, may make similar arrangements with any city, town or village within said county to own and operate said farm in connection with said city, town or village. In any county where there are not a sufficient number of convicts to make it economically feasible for such county to own a farm or to own and operate a farm with a contiguous county or with a city or town, the board of supervisors of such county may contract with the board of supervisors of any contiguous county or with any county in the same circuit or chancery court district, to have its prisoners worked by the contiguous county or counties in the same circuit or chancery court district upon payment made to the board of supervisors of such contiguous county or counties in the same circuit or chancery court district for the purpose of detaining and working such prisoners. The terms of such a contract are to be agreed upon by and between the two contracting boards and the same shall not be in violation of the law. Where the board of supervisors of one county so contracts to work convicts of another county, all the provisions of Sections 47-1-1 through 47-1-37, Sections 47-1-41, 47-1-45, 47-1-47, and 47-1-61, Mississippi Code of 1972, and Section 226 of the Constitution in regard to the working of convicts shall apply to the convicts contracted for as herein provided; and the name of the convict or convicts may be entered on the jail docket of the county contracting to detain and work the convict or convicts, together with all other information required by Section 47-1-21.
MS Code § 47-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-9. Convicts may be worked on public roads or other county public works

 In any county where it is clearly more advantageous to the county to work the county convicts or some of them on the public roads of the county, or on other works of the county exclusively public in their character, the board of supervisors shall have the authority so to order, and in such cases the board shall establish all proper regulations for the working, guarding, safekeeping, clothing, housing and subsistence of convicts while so working, and shall provide all the necessary equipment for such purpose. The board shall establish regulations for the discipline of convicts on said works, and on county farms, when a convict is persistently idle or refractory, and may enforce such regulations by penalties.
MS Code § 47-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-11. Convicts physically unable shall not be required to work

 If any convict committed to the county jail is physically unable to do any kind of manual labor, then, upon the certificate of the county health officer or physician designated by the board of supervisors of the county, to this effect, such convict shall not be required, during the period of such physical disability, to perform manual labor on the convict farm. But all convicts shall be required each day to do and perform such work as they are physically able to do and perform and which will not impair the health of such convict, or as is not inhumane to require of him.
MS Code § 47-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-13. By contract county may work under guard certain prisoners before indictment and conviction

 Any person being held in the county jail in default of bail to await trial, except those held for treason, murder, arson, or rape, and except such as the sheriff may deem it improper to let out, may on application to the sheriff of the county, be allowed to work on the county farm or on the public roads or other county public works as other convicts are worked and at the same wage. The board of supervisors shall settle with prisoners so working at their regular meetings monthly. But if it appears that it is not to the best interest of the county to work such prisoners, the board may decline at any time to employ them.
MS Code § 47-1-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-15. Deductions from sentence for efficient work

 Any convict working under the direction of the board of supervisors who renders efficient services and complies with all necessary rules and regulations may have deducted from the term of his imprisonment one-fourth (1/4) thereof.
MS Code § 47-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-17. When convict not credited with wages

 No convict shall be credited with any wages during the time of his or her escape; and if any convict escapes while being worked on a public road, or works or county farm, he or she may be pursued and retaken by any person, or officer authorized to make arrests, or board, or any one entitled to the custody or services of said convict; and when retaken such convict shall be required to work out the balance of his term of hire, not counting the period of such escape, even if the term of imprisonment and the time for which such convict was first hired had expired before the recapture. Such convict shall be liable to indictment for such escape and liable to the same punishment as for an escape from the custody of the county jail.
MS Code § 47-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-19. Leasing or hiring convicts unlawful; lawful public service work

  It is unlawful for any county-housed state inmate or county prisoner or prisoners to be leased or hired to any individual or corporation for any purpose whatsoever. Nor shall they be worked under any contractor; but in working them on county farms, or on the public roads or on any other work, which work must be of an exclusively public character, they shall be under exclusive official control and management.     It is lawful for a state, county or municipality to provide prisoners for public service work for nonprofit charitable organizations as defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code if that nonprofit charitable organization provides food to charities. In addition, it is lawful for a state, county or municipality to provide prisoners for public service work for churches according to criteria approved by the Department of Corrections.   The prisoners participating in the public service work under paragraph (a) shall remain under the exclusive control and management of the county or municipality.   A prisoner performing public service work under this subsection shall be entitled to earned credits as provided under this chapter.
MS Code § 47-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-21. Sheriff to keep a jail docket; what to contain

 The sheriff of each county shall keep a well bound alphabetical jail docket. In it he shall promptly enter under the proper initial the name, age, color and sex of each convict, the date of his or her commitment, each day worked on the county farm, time required to be served and amount of fine and costs and the jail fees charged against the prisoner and the date of discharge.   The sheriff shall submit his docket to the board of supervisors at each of their regular meetings, and the same shall be examined carefully by the president of the board, and by any other members who desire to examine the same, in the presence of the board while in session.
MS Code § 47-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-23. The sexes to be kept separate

 It shall be unlawful for convicts of different sexes to be confined or worked together.
MS Code § 47-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-25. Officers to have access to convicts

 Each county officer or officers, for any district of a county shall at all times have free access to convicts in the custody of any official for the purpose of investigating their condition and treatment. The sheriff or his deputies shall visit the convict camp or county farms where the convicts of his county are kept or worked at least once in every month and more often if necessary. He shall make a thorough inspection and investigation of the treatment of convicts and report the same in writing to the board of supervisors. For failure to perform duty in this respect the board of supervisors may fine the sheriff Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00).
MS Code § 47-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-27. Maltreatment forbidden

 An official, or guard, or other employee, having the custody of any county prisoner, or any official or employee of the county having custody of any county prisoner, who shall maltreat or abuse any such convict, or who shall knowingly permit the same to be done, or who being under duty to provide sufficient and wholesome food, clothing, shelter, bathing facilities, or medical attention to such convict, shall wilfully fail to furnish the same to such convict, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or shall be imprisoned not less than one (1) month, or shall suffer both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and it shall be the duty of the judge of the circuit court of such county to so charge the grand jury.
MS Code § 47-1-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-29. Complaint of convicts investigated

 On complaint by or on behalf of any convict to any county or county district officer, that such convict had been improperly treated in any respect, it shall be the duty of such officer at once to investigate the complaint, and if it is believed to be well founded, to report the facts to the president of the board of supervisors, or to the board in session. Upon such report the board shall cite the person complained of to appear before it, and such action shall be taken by the board as shall be proper.
MS Code § 47-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-31. Grand jury to examine records and treatment of prisoners

 Each grand jury which is impaneled shall examine the records of county prisoners and their treatment and condition and report the same to the court.
MS Code § 47-1-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-33. Each convict to have evidence of term of sentence and amount of fine

 The sheriff on receiving each convict shall furnish such convict with a certificate showing the amount of the fine and costs, as far as the costs are then known, the beginning and length of his term of imprisonment. The convict shall be allowed to have and keep such certificate on or about his person, if he so desires.
MS Code § 47-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-35. County farms operating at loss, disposition of

  The board of supervisors of any county that now maintains and operates a county penal farm, commonly known as a "county farm," which farm contains more than five hundred (500) acres and less than six hundred (600) acres of land, which said farm has been continuously operating at a loss to the county for a period of five (5) years or more, and provided said county contains at least four hundred (400) square miles of territory and less than four hundred twenty-five (425) square miles of territory within its boundaries, shall sell, at public sale after receiving bids as required by law for the letting of public contracts, to the highest and best bidder for cash, said county farm; provided, however, that the said board shall retain for the benefit of the county and shall reserve from said sale, at least one-half (1/2) of the mineral rights and interests in said lands, with full right in the said board, in its discretion, to lease said retained and reserved mineral interests and rights, to the highest and best bidder after receiving bids therefor in the same manner, at the same or any other time.   Any and all amounts received from such sale of said lands and from such lease of said mineral interests or rights, shall be, on receipt by the board, applied to the payment of the bonded indebtedness of said county.
MS Code § 47-1-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-37. Board of supervisors may hire additional labor to work on county farm

 In the cultivation of crops and the gathering thereof if it shall appear necessary, from the lack of convict labor, the board of supervisors may employ free labor at current prices to work on a county convict farm until such time as the convict labor may become sufficient to complete and gather the crops started on such a farm, and pay for the same out of the county treasury.
MS Code § 47-1-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole|Chapter 1 - County and Municipal Prisons and Prisoners|§ 47-1-39. Municipal prison and prisoners; municipality to pay expenses of jail officer education courses

  The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to construct and maintain a municipal prison, and to regulate the keeping of the same and the prisoners therein, and to contract with the board of supervisors, which is empowered in the premises, for the use of the county jail by the municipality; and to provide for the working of the streets by municipal prisoners, and to contract with the county for such work by county prisoners or the working of county roads by municipal prisoners, or for working same on the county farms. Municipal prisoners shall be worked on county roads or county farms only in the county in which the municipality is situated. Males and females shall be confined in separate cells or compartments.   The municipality shall pay the tuition, living and travel expenses incurred by a person attending and participating in the basic and continuing education courses for jail officers.