Minnesota Session Laws - 1999, Regular Session

                             CHAPTER 50-H.F.No. 216 
                  An act relating to corrections; clarifying the law 
                  authorizing transfer of prisoners between jails and 
                  workhouses; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 
                  643.01. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 643.01, is 
        amended to read: 
           643.01 [TRANSFER OF PRISONERS BETWEEN JAIL AND WORKHOUSE.] 
           (a) In any county of this state in which there is now or 
        shall be hereafter maintained by any county or by any city and 
        county, a workhouse, correctional or work farm for the 
        confinement of criminal offenders, and a county jail, any 
        district court judge of the judicial district in which the 
        county is situated, shall have the power, either of the judge's 
        own motion, or on the application of the county attorney of the 
        county, in accordance with written county policy approved by the 
        commissioner of corrections, to order:  
           (1) any prisoner who shall be confined in the county jail 
        under sentence, to be transferred and recommitted to the 
        workhouse, correctional or work farm at hard labor, for the 
        remainder of the term for which sentenced; or 
           (2) any prisoner who shall be confined in the workhouse, 
        correctional or work farm under sentence, to be transferred and 
        recommitted to the county jail for the remainder of the term for 
        which sentenced; or 
           (3) any prisoner who shall be confined in the county jail, 
        convicted and awaiting sentence, to be transferred to and 
        confined in the workhouse, correctional or work farm while 
        awaiting sentence. 
           Transferred prisoners are subject to the rules and 
        discipline of the confining institution.  Transportation of 
        prisoners is the responsibility of the sending institution. 
           (b) Upon agreement by a county sheriff and an administrator 
        of a workhouse on conditions of transference and confinement, 
        including payment of prisoner per diems, any prisoner in the 
        custody of the county sheriff under pretrial status may be 
        transferred to and confined in the workhouse. 
           Presented to the governor April 12, 1999 
           Signed by the governor April 15, 1999, 11:13 a.m.