An official, or guard, or other employee, having the custody of any county prisoner, or any official or employee of the county having custody of any county prisoner, who shall maltreat or abuse any such convict, or who shall knowingly permit the same to be done, or who being under duty to provide sufficient and wholesome food, clothing, shelter, bathing facilities, or medical attention to such convict, shall wilfully fail to furnish the same to such convict, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or shall be imprisoned not less than one (1) month, or shall suffer both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and it shall be the duty of the judge of the circuit court of such county to so charge the grand jury.
Miss. Code Ann. § 47-1-27
Maltreatment forbidden
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 899 So. 2d 922 - Harvison v. Greene County Sheriff Dept. (2005)
Most recently applied in 899 So. 2d 922 - Harvison v. Greene County Sheriff Dept. (March 2005)
Codes, 1906, § 877; Hemingway’s 1917, § 4035; 1930, § 4074; 1942, § 7915; Laws, 1896, ch. 88; Laws, 1908, ch. 109.
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