Arkansas Code Title 12, Subtitle 3, Chapter 42 - Labor of County and City Prisoners

• § 12-42-101 - Definition.
  As used in §§ 12-42-109, 12-42-110, 12-42-112, 12-42-113, and 12-42-115, "county inmates" means persons convicted of misdemeanors or petty offenses and committed to jail...
• § 12-42-102 - Penalties.
  (a) Any person, firm, or corporation, and any county judge or mayor of any city or incorporated town who works any prisoner or enters...
• § 12-42-103 - County Farm -- Purchase Authorized.
  Plenary power is conferred upon the county levying court at its regular or specially called meeting, to authorize the county court or the county...
• § 12-42-104 - Leasing Procedure Exclusive.
  It shall be unlawful for any county judge or mayor of any city or incorporated town or any person to lease or contract for...
• § 12-42-105 - Workhouses and Public Works.
  (a) Any person who may be convicted of a misdemeanor or petty offense by any court in this state and who shall be committed...
• § 12-42-106 - Contracts With Other Counties, Cities, or Towns -- Liability.
  (a) (1) The county court or the county judge thereof in vacation, or the mayor of any city or incorporated town, when authorized to...
• § 12-42-107 - Procedure When Satisfactory Contract Cannot Be Made.
  (a) (1) If the county court or county judge thereof in vacation, or the mayor of any city or incorporated town, is unable to...
• § 12-42-108 - Superintendent.
  (a) In the event that the county court or county judge thereof shall order the prisoners to be worked on roads, bridges, levees, or...
• § 12-42-109 - Management of Inmates Not Hired.
  (a) Unless the inmates are immediately hired out, the management and control of the county inmates shall be confined to county courts either in...
• § 12-42-110 - Labor on Public Works Restricted.
  A county inmate shall not be allowed to work on any public work or improvement whenever there may be danger of his or her...
• § 12-42-111 - Credit for Labor.
  (a) Every county court or a county official designated by the county court may utilize persons convicted and committed to the county jails to...
• § 12-42-112 - Compensation of Artisan or Mechanic.
  If any person so convicted is an artisan or mechanic and is put to labor in any manual labor workhouse, or on any bridge...
• § 12-42-113 - Warrants for Costs.
  When inmates employed on public works or improvements or in public workhouses shall have paid the full amount of their fines and costs by...
• § 12-42-114 - Arrest of Escapees.
  (a) If any prisoner shall escape from the contractor or superintendent, the contractor or superintendent shall have the right to arrest the prisoner, in...
• § 12-42-115 - Records of Inmates.
  (a) The county court shall cause a record of all its proceedings under §§ 12-42-101, 12-42-109, 12-42-110, 12-42-112, 12-42-113, and this section to be...
• § 12-42-116 - Work-Study Release.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Chief executive officer" means the county sheriff of the county if the criminal detention facility is owned...
• § 12-42-117 - Voluntary Labor.
  (a) Any of the prisoners in the county jails located in counties having a population of between twenty-four thousand five hundred (24,500) and twenty-five...
• § 12-42-118 - Appropriations.
  At its annual or specially called meeting for making appropriations, the county court shall make the necessary appropriations to carry out the purposes of...

Last modified: November 15, 2016