Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5147 - Convict Labor

• Section 5147.01 To 5147.04 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-09-1982
• Section 5147.05 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-30-1955
• Section 5147.06 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-09-1982
• Section 5147.07 - Purchasing Supplies.
  No articles or supplies manufactured under this section or sections 5147.12 to 5147.22 of the Revised Code by the labor of convicts of state...
• Section 5147.08 To 5147.11 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-30-1955
• Section 5147.12 - Labor Of Prisoners Not To Be Sold.
  The labor or time of any person confined in any workhouse or jail shall not be let, farmed out, given, sold, or contracted to...
• Section 5147.13 - Prisoners In Workhouses Or Jails May Be Employed To Manufacture Articles For Public Institutions.
  Persons confined in any workhouse or jail may be employed in the manufacture of articles used by any department or public institution belonging to...
• Section 5147.14 - Authority To Procure Equipment.
  The board or officer in charge of any workhouse or jail may provide, prepare, and procure machinery, power, and shop room for the manufacture...
• Section 5147.15 - Employment Of Prisoners.
  Except for articles manufactured in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, no articles other than those specified...
• Section 5147.16 - Purchase Or Lease Beds Of Limestone, Or Other Suitable Road-building Material.
  The board of county commissioners may purchase or lease beds of limestone, or other suitable road-building material, after such material is approved by the...
• Section 5147.17 - Sentence Of Hard Labor In County.
  When the board of county commissioners has secured property and completed arrangements for the working of its prisoners as provided in section 5147.16 of...
• Section 5147.18 - Duty Of County Commissioners To Work Prisoners At Hard Labor.
  In counties which have secured property and completed arrangements for the working of their convicts, the board of county commissioners, whenever practicable, shall cause...
• Section 5147.19 - Control Of Prisoners At Hard Labor.
  Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, prisoners sentenced to hard labor under...
• Section 5147.20 - Resentence Of Prisoner Sick Or Incapacitated For Work.
  When a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor under section 5147.17 of the Revised Code, becomes sick or incapacitated for work, or the...
• Section 5147.21 - Board Of County Commissioners May Employ Superintendent.
  The board of county commissioners may employ a superintendent and such guards and attendants as are necessary for the safekeeping, proper working, and welfare...
• Section 5147.22 - Earnings Of Prisoners.
  Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or...
• Section 5147.23 To 5147.26 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-09-1982
• Section 5147.27 - Temporary Details To Specified Labor.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, may detail,...
• Section 5147.28 - Court May Establish Work-release Program.
  (A) The court of common pleas and each municipal and county court in a county in which all of those courts agree on uniform...
• Section 5147.29 - Collection And Disbursal Of Prisoner's Earnings From Work-release Program.
  (A) A prisoner participating in a work-release program shall surrender his earnings, less standard payroll deductions required by law, to a person designated by...
• Section 5147.30 - County Jail Industry Program.
  (A) As used in this section, "prisoner" means any person confined in the county jail in lieu of bail while awaiting trial, any person...
• Section 5147.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-09-1982

Last modified: October 10, 2016