53.11 Credit for good conduct; forfeiture for bad. 53.12 Time credit for labor; earnings; rewards for exceptionally good conduct. 53.13 Recapture of escaped convicts. 53.14 Burial of deceased convicts. 53.15 Property of convicts; bonus and employment on discharge. UNITED STATES CONVICTS 53.16 Custody and employment. 53.17 Settlement of accounts for maintenance. 53.18 Special report. 53.01 Object; venue. (1) The state prison shall be the general penitentiary and prison for the punishment and reformation of all offenders committed and sentenced according to law by any court of the state of Wisconsin or any court of the United States held in the districts of Wisconsin to imprisonment therein. (2) For the purpose of all judicial proceedings the prison and precincts thereof shall be deemed to be within and a part of the county of Dodge, and the courts of said county shall have jurisdiction of all crimes and offenses committed within the same. (3) All process served within the precincts of the prison, either upon convicts or upon persons or officers employed therein, except the warden and deputy warden, shall be served and returned by the warden or deputy warden; and all officers and employes of the prison are exempt from military duty and from serving on juries in any court. [Stats. 1917 s. 4883, 4884, 4885; 1919 c. 348 s. 3; 1919 c. 443.1 53.02 Warden; duties, bond, oath and report. (1) The warden shall, under the direction of the state board of control, have the charge and custody of the prison, with all lands, buildings, furniture, tools, implements, stock and provisions and every other species of property pertaining thereto or within the precincts thereof, and superintend the police of the prison and discipline of the convicts. He shall enforce the regulations of the board for the government of the officers and convicts of the prison; shall reside in the warden's residence on the prison property; and neither he nor any other officer or employe of the prison shall, directly or indirectly, have any interest or concern pecuniarily in any contract, either verbal or written, which may be entered into for any purposes whatever connected with the business of the prison. (2) The warden shall take and file an official oath and execute and file an official bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars with sureties approved by the board; and whenever the board deems further security necessary it may require the warden to execute and file an additional bond or bonds and fix the amount thereof. [Stats. 1917 s. 4895, 4896, 4897, 4898, 4999; 1919 c. 348 s. 4.] 53.03 Deputy Warden. The deputy warden shall perform the duties of the warden in the absence of that officer, reside within the prison grounds, and, under the direction of the warden, assist in administering the government and discipline of the prison; and he shall perform all the duties, have all the powers and be subject to all the obligations and liabilities of the warden in case of the disability of that officer or vacancy in that office. [Stats. 1917 s. 4901; 1919 c. 348 s. 5.] CUSTODY, CARE, AND DISCIPLINE OF CONVICTS 53.04 Delivery of convict to prison. (1) The sheriff of each county shall convey to the state prison every person convicted in his county and sentenced to be confined in said prison as soon as may be after such conviction and sentence; and after delivering such convict to the warden, together with a copy of the certificate of conviction of the court ordering such imprisonment, the warden shall deliver to such sheriff a receipt, acknowledging receipt of the prisoner, naming him, which receipt the said sheriff shall file in the office of the clerk of the court where such conviction and sentence were had. Such sheriff shall be entitled to receive from said county the amount actually and necessarily expended by him in transporting such prisoner, including the amount paid for boarding and lodging and such guards as may have been necessarily employed, and such further reasonable sum as shall be a fair compensation for the time necessarily spent in transporting such prisoner, to be fixed and allowed by the proper auditing officer or auditing board of said county. (2) Whenever a sheriff shall deliver to the warden a prisoner who is under the influence of spirituous liquors said warden shall state such fact in his receipt to the sheriff and send a duplicate of said receipt to the clerk of the court where the conviction and sentence of such prisoner were had, who shall file the same in his office. [Stats. 1917 s. 4913, 4914; 1919 c. 348 s. 6.] 53.05 Ordinary custody and maintenance. (1) All convicts in the prison shall be in the charge and custody of |