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THE PRISON LAW.

AN ACT in relation to prisons, constituting chapter fifteen of the general laws.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

CHAPTER XV OF THE GENERAL LAWS.

THE PRISON LAW.

Article I. Penal institutions; definitions. (§§ 1-12.)
II. Jails. (§§ 20-50.)

III. Confinement of civil prisoners; jail liberties. (§§ 60

85.)

IV. Penitentiaries. (§§ 90-112.)

V. Reformatories. (§§ 120-147.)

VI. State prisons; officers. (§§ 150-167.)

VII. State prisons; finances and property. (§§ 170-184.) VIII. State prisons; sentence, reception, transportation and transfer of prisoners. (§§ 190-198.)

IX. State prisons; special provisions relative to care and treatment of prisoners. (§§ 200-208.)

X. State prisons; board of parole; parole of prison

ers. (§ 220-230.)

XI. State prisons; prisoners under sentence of death; execution of sentence. (§§ 240-249.)

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Article XII. State prison for women. (§§ 250-257.)

XIII. State hospital for insane criminals. (§§ 260-274.) XIV. Classification and employment of prisoners. (§§ 280288.)

XV. Manufacture of supplies in penal institutions for use of state and political divisions thereof. (§§ 300-311.)

XVI. Conduct of manufacturing industries in state pris

ons. (§§ 320-331.)

XVII. Compensation of prisoners in state prisons and peni tentiaries. (§§ 340-343.)

XVIII. Discipline and commutations for good conduct. (§§ 350-361.)

XIX. Reprieves, commutations and pardons by the gov ernor. (§§ 370-375.)

XX. Miscellaneous provisions. (§§ 380-385.)

XXI. State commission of prisons. (§§ 390-398.)

XXII. Laws repealed; when to take effect. (§§ 400-401.)

ARTICLE I.

PENAL INSTITUTIONS; DEFINITIONS.

Section 1. Short title.

2. Definition of penal institution.

3. Classification.

4. Jails.

5. Penitentiaries.

6. Reformatories.

7. State prisons.

8. Warden.

9. Superintendent.

Section 10. Commission.

11. Prisoner.

12. Political division.

[General note. This article contains definitions of certain terms commonly used in subsequent articles of the bill, and are inserted so that a shorter term may be used for all that it signifies. The statute is thus divested of many useless words.

We have also classified the several penal institutions treated in this article and provided the purpose for which each of such institutions is maintained.]

§ 1. Short title.-This chapter shall be known as the prison law.

§ 2. Definition of penal institution.-The term "penal institution" when used in this chapter, means an institution used wholly or in part for the confinement of persons convicted of crime, held awaiting trial or the action of a grand jury, detained as witnesses or as civil prisoners, excepting all institutions of a correctional or reformatory character used solely for the imprisonment of females convicted of a misdemeanor, or of children under the age of sixteen years, when convicted of either a misdemeanor or a felony. [New.]

§ 3. Classification.-For the purposes of this chapter the following are treated as penal institutions.

1. Jails.

2. Penitentiaries.

3. Reformatories.

4. State prisons.

[New.]

§ 4. Jails.-Jails are established and maintained by counties for the confinement or detention of:

1. Persons charged with crime, or committed for trial, examination, or to await the action of a grand jury.

2. Persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment therein for an offense other than a felony.

3. Persons awaiting transportation under a sentence of imprisonment in another penal institution.

4. Persons duly committed to secure their attendance as witnesses in a criminal case.

5. Persons duly committed for a contempt or upon a civil pro

cess.

[County Law, § 90.]

§ 5. Penitentiaries.-Penitentiaries are established and maintained by counties for the confinement of persons convicted of: 1. Misdemeanors.

2. Felonies, where the sentences imposed are upon males between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years, for terms of not more than one year.

[New.]

§ 6. Reformatories.-Reformatories are state institutions for the confinement and reformation of male persons, convicted of felonies, who have not been before convicted of crime punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, and who are at the time of their conviction between the ages of sixteen and thirty years. [New. See § 700 of the Penal Code.]

§ 7. State prisons.-State prisons are for the imprisonment of persons over the age of sixteen years convicted of felonies and sentenced thereto for terms of more than one year.

[New.]

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