3103 - Agricultural labor at county correctional institutions.
§ 3103. Agricultural labor at county correctional institutions. (a) General rule.--The chief administrator of a county correctional institution shall permit the employment of such inmates serving sentences therein, as they shall deem advisable, at agricultural labor on any county farm of the county under the direction of any person appointed by the chief administrator, and all inmates so employed shall at all times be amenable to restraint, discipline and punishment in the same manner as if they were confined in the county correctional institution. (b) Liability.--No person appointed by a chief administrator of a county correctional institution or his sureties shall be held liable on any bond conditioned for the safekeeping of persons given into that person's care, in case any inmate so employed shall escape, if due care and diligence has been exercised in the discharge of the duties imposed on that person.