Prisoners sentenced to punishment by confinement in the penitentiary shall be kept at hard labor. If the punishment is imprisonment in the jail of the county, the imprisonment shall be close confinement in the jail of the county where the trial was held, unless otherwise provided. In any jurisdiction where there is a county workhouse the court may in its discretion confine the prisoner to the county workhouse instead of the county jail.
KRS 431.130
Confinement in penitentiary, county jail or workhouse -- Nature
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case Ex Parte Farley (1978)
Most recently applied in Ex Parte Farley (July 1978)
History: Amended 1974 Ky
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