§ 500-I. County workhouses.
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§ 500-i. County workhouses. The board of supervisors of any county
may establish and maintain a workhouse for the confinement of persons
convicted within the county of crimes and criminal offenses, the
punishment for which is imprisonment in the county jail, and may provide
for the imprisonment and employment therein of all persons sentenced
thereto, and any court or judicial officer may sentence such person to
such workhouse instead of to the county jail.