303.07 County reforestation camps.

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(1)Any county may by ordinance designate any county forest project under s. 28.11 to be a county reforestation camp and provide facilities therein for keeping and maintaining prisoners and giving them employment not exceeding 8 hours each day, without compensation unless otherwise determined by the county board, in charge of a superintendent who shall have the powers and duties of a jailer.

(2)When convicted persons are subject to commitment to the county jail, or to the Wisconsin state prisons under s. 939.62

(a)or 939.623

(a)for a term not exceeding 2 years, the court may instead commit them for equivalent terms to a reforestation camp authorized under sub.

(1).

(3)Each prisoner serving a sentence under this section who could have been sentenced to a state prison is subject to s. 302.11

(1),

(1g),

(1q)and

(2). Each prisoner serving such a sentence may be transferred to a state prison upon recommendation of the superintendent and approval of the department. The county board may, pursuant to its regulations approved by the department, extend to all other prisoners similar pecuniary earnings and rewards, subject to similar conditions and limitations as those prescribed by s. 302.12 for prisoners in the Wisconsin state prisons.