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Section
253
Working
of penitentiary prisoners -- When and where permitted.
Persons
convicted of felony and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary shall be confined at
labor within the walls of the penitentiary; and the General Assembly shall not have the
power to authorize employment of convicts elsewhere, except upon the public works of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, or when, during pestilence or in case of the destruction of the
prison buildings, they cannot be confined in the penitentiary.
That
Section 253 of the Constitution be amended so that the Commonwealth of Kentucky may use
and employ outside of the walls of the penitentiaries in such manner and means as may be
provided by law, persons convicted of felony and sentenced to confinement in the
penitentiary for the purpose of constructing or reconstructing and maintaining public
roads and public bridges or for the purpose of making and preparing material for public
roads and bridges, and that the Commonwealth of Kentucky may, by the use and employment of
convict labor outside of the walls of the penitentiary by other ways or means, as may be
provided by law, aid the counties for road and bridge purposes, work on the State farm or
farms.
Text as
Ratified on: November 2, 1915.
History: 1915 amendment was proposed by 1914 Ky. Acts ch. 93, sec. 1; original version
ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
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