The board of chosen freeholders of any such county may convert so much of the common jail of the county as they deem proper into a workhouse, reserving sufficient room for the uses and purposes of the public jail.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 30:8-30
Conversion of part of jail into workhouse
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