500-I - County workhouses.

§  500-i.  County workhouses.   The board of supervisors of any county  may establish and maintain a workhouse for the  confinement  of  persons  convicted  within  the  county  of  crimes  and  criminal  offenses, the  punishment for which is imprisonment in the county jail, and may provide  for the imprisonment and employment therein  of  all  persons  sentenced  thereto,  and  any court or judicial officer may sentence such person to  such workhouse instead of to the county jail.