Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 47-1-13 (2026)
By contract county may work under guard certain prisoners before indictment and conviction
✓ current as of July 2026
Any person being held in the county jail in default of bail to await trial, except those held for treason, murder, arson, or rape, and except such as the sheriff may deem it improper to let out, may on application to the sheriff of the county, be allowed to work on the county farm or on the public roads or other county public works as other convicts are worked and at the same wage. The board of supervisors shall settle with prisoners so working at their regular meetings monthly. But if it appears that it is not to the best interest of the county to work such prisoners, the board may decline at any time to employ them.
Codes, 1892, § 808; 1906, § 864; Hemingway's 1917, § 4040; 1930, § 4068; 1942, § 7909.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1996–1996 · leading case: Robert W. Brooks v. George Cnty., Mississippi, George Cnty., Mississippi, Cross-Appellee, Wilbur Ward & Earl Koskela, 84 F.3d 157 (5th Cir. 1996).
Robert W. Brooks v. George Cnty., Mississippi, George Cnty., Mississippi, Cross-Appellee, Wilbur Ward & Earl Koskela, 84 F.3d 157 (5th Cir. 1996). “§ 47-1-13 states in relevant part that Any person being held in the county jail in default of bail to await trial ... may on application to the sheriff of the county, be allowed to work on .”
Brooks v. George Cnty., MS, 77 F.3d 834 (5th Cir. 1996). “may on application to the sheriff of the county, be allowed to work on .”
Unknown, 77 F.3d 834. “may on application to the sheriff of the county, be allowed to work on ... county public works as other convicts are worked and at the same wage.”
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