and shall have the force and effect of a sentence for the maximum term, subject to the power of release from actual confinement by parole or absolute discharge by the board of control or by pardon, as provided by law.

(4) In lieu of the penalty provided by statute, or city or village ordinance, under which said offender is tried, the court may commit any female person belonging to class two or three to the industrial home, for a general or indeterminate term, which term shall not exceed five years in any case, subject to the power of release from actual confinement by parole or absolute discharge by the board of control or by pardon, as provided by law. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944d, 4944k, 4944-o sub. 1, 2, 3; 1919 c. 349 s. 6.]

54.04 Trial and commitment records; execution. (1) When any offender is sentenced to the reformatory or to the industrial home, the commitment papers shall consist of the warrant of commitment, and certified copies of the information, indictment or complaint, the plea of the accused, the testimony taken at the trial, the verdict, if there be one, and the judgment and sentence; which copies shall be delivered with the order or warrant of commitment to the officer executing it, and to the superintendent of the institution when the convict is delivered.

(2) In case no testimony is taken at the trial, a statement of the district attorney who prosecuted such case, giving the facts in connection with the case, and the statement of the defendant in court, shall be delivered in lieu thereof.

(3) The clerk of the court furnishing such copies or record shall be entitled to such compensation as may be fixed by the presiding judge, and shall be paid by the county in which trial is had as part of the court expenses.

(4) Whenever any person is sentenced to the reformatory, the order or warrant of commitment shall authorize the officer to whom it is issued to take charge of such convict and convey him to the reformatory and deliver him to the superintendent of that institution, who shall receive and confine him therein until he shall be discharged by due process of law.

(5) Whenever any woman is sentenced to the industrial home the superintendent of said industrial home shall, upon being notified of such sentence, designate and send some suitable woman who is employed in said industrial home to take charge of the convict and convey her to said home; and said employe shall have all the powers of a police officer from the time of her appointment until such convict is delivered to the superintendent of said home. The expenses of making such transfer shall be paid by the county in which such person was convicted.

(6) Whenever any person is sentenced to either of said institutions the court or magistrate pronouncing sentence shall immediately notify the superintendent of said institution thereof. If said institution be filled to the limit of its capacity, the convict shall be retained in the county jail until he or she can be received into said institution; but if convicted of a felony, the court may, in its discretion, commit such convict temporarily to the state prison, to be thence transferred as soon as may be. Notice of such temporary commitment shall be given to the superintendent, and the commitment papers shall be delivered with the convict to the warden of the prison, who shall deliver them to said superintendent when the convict is transferred. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944h, 4944-x sub. 3; 1919 c. 349 s. 7.]

54.05 Custody and discipline; allowances for good conduct. (1) The provisions of section 53.07 and subsection 1 of section 53.15 shall apply to the reformatory, and the powers therein conferred upon the warden and deputy warden are hereby conferred upon the superintendent and assistant superintendent, respectively, of the reformatory.

(2) The time during which any inmate of the reformatory or of the industrial home, who has escaped therefrom, is at large, shall not be computed as any portion of the time for which he or she was sentenced.

(3) Any inmate of the reformatory or of the industrial home under sentence may be prosecuted, before discharge

therefrom, for any criminal offense, and if convicted may be sentenced to undergo the punishment prescribed by law for such offense, to commence at the expiration of the current term of imprisonment. If convicted of more than one offense sentences on such convictions shall be cumulative as provided in section 4733.

(4) The allowances for good conduct prescribed in section 53.15 shall likewise be made to the inmates of the reformatory and of the industrial home who have not been paroled or discharged, and any good time earned in either institution by inmates transferred to or from the state prison shall be allowed in the institution to which they have been transferred. Subsections 2, 3 and 4 of section 53.16 shall apply to inmates of the reformatory. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944L, 4944i, 4944-o sub. 7; 1919 c. 349 s. 9.]

54.06 Institutional record. When any convict shall be received into said reformatory or industrial home the board of control shall cause to be entered in a register the date of such admission, the name, age, nativity, and nationality, with such other facts as may be obtained as to the parentage, education and previous environments of said inmate. A semiannual entry shall be made on such register of the progress made by each inmate, and in case such inmate is paroled, an entry shall be made on such register of that fact, and also a statement as to her condition at the time of parole. Such register shall show at all times the progress made by the inmates who have been placed upon parole. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944-v; 1919 c. 349 s. 11.]

54.07 Transfer of convicts. (1) With the approval of the governer any inmate of the reformatory or of the industrial home, belonging to class one, whose continued presence there is considered detrimental to the other inmates, may be transferred by the board of control to the state prison, and his original term of imprisonment shall be continued therein.

(2) Convicts in the state prison and in the Milwaukee county house of correction belonging to class one, and in any county jail belonging to class two, may with like executive

approval be transferred from any of these institutions to the reformatory or to the industrial home and may be returned to the institution from which they were respectively taken.

(3) Inmates of the industrial school for boys who have reached the age of seventeen years and inmates of the industrial school for girls who have reached the age of eighteen years, and inmates of other institutions, public or private, who have reached like ages, respectively, and who were committed to said institutions by court orders and were then eligible for commitment to said industrial schools, may also be transferred to the reformatory or to the industrial home, respectively, by the board of control; but such boys may be retained at the reformatory only until they are eighteen years of age. Or they may sooner be returned to the school or to the counties from which they were sent to the school.

(4) With each person transferred to the reformatory or to the industrial home from any other institution the warden or superintendent of such other institution shall transmit to the superintendent of the reformatory, or of the industrial home, copies of the original commitment of such person, and of his record of service, conduct and history; and with each person transferred from the reformatory or industrial home the superintendent shall furnish to the institution to which such convict is transferred a like record of service, conduct, and personal history of the convict while in the reformatory or industrial home. [Stats. 1917 s. 4944 ƒ, 4944g; 1919 c. 349 s. 12.]

CHAPTER 55

COUNTY JAILS AND OTHER MUNICIPAL PRISONS

55.01 Erection and objects of county jails.

55.02 Restrictions on location of prisons.

55.03 Expense charge of keeping prisoners.

55.04 Use of jail in another county.

55.05 Removal of prisoners in case of fire or other casualty.

55.06 Segregation of prisoners.

55.07 Maintenance and sanitation of prisoners.

55.08 Bibles and religious instruction.

55 09 Discipline; solitary confinement.

55.10 Annual inspection.

55.11 Custody of United States prisoners.