§ 1-10. Working city prisoners; credit against fine.

(a)

Persons imprisoned for the violation of city ordinances may be required to work upon the streets, avenues, and alleys of the city under the direction of the chief of police.

(b)

Every prisoner for each day's work he is required to do shall receive credit on his fine and cost assessed against him of thirty dollars ($30.00) per day, until such fine and cost are fully paid. And in case the prisoner is serving a sentence of imprisonment, each day that he works in serving such sentence shall entitle him credit for equal time on his sentence of imprisonment, but in no instance shall a prisoner receive credit on the fine and cost and on the time sentenced to imprisonment for the same work.

(c)

The chief of police shall file a report with the court clerk of each prisoner working out a fine, and the latter shall credit the result of such labor to the fine assessed against such prisoner as the same appears upon his court docket.

(Code 1963, § 1-10)

State law reference

Credit allowed for labor of convicts, Miss. Code Ann. 1972, § 47-1-47.