§ 44-5. Compelling prisoners to work; allowance for labor; punishment of prisoner.

(a)

Work required. All prisoners shall be required to participate in work assignments unless excused. Such assignments may include but not be limited to the following: general maintenance of the correctional facility, work for departments of city government, work release, or any other activity ordered by a judge.

(b)

Allowance. Each prisoner shall receive credit on the books of the correctional facility against and towards the satisfaction of the execution or warrant of commitment under which the prisoner is held in custody, at the rate authorized by the court en banc of the municipal division courts for each day of sentence, or part thereof; provided that, in accordance with state law, a prisoner held for nonpayment of a fine will not be held for longer than 30 days unless otherwise ordered by the sentencing judge.

(c)

Punishment. Any sentenced prisoner who shall refuse a work assignment, or refuse to work diligently, or any sentenced or unsentenced prisoner who shall behave in a riotous or disorderly manner, or shall resist or refuse to obey a lawful order, or shall attempt to escape from a correctional facility, may be disciplined in an appropriate manner pursuant to the correctional facility procedures.

(Ord. No. 090575, § 1, 7-16-09; Ord. No. 120853, § 1, 10-11-12)