§14-6-81. Duties of state agency.

The Board of Corrections shall cause to be inspected at least twice each year, if practicable, and as often as it may deem necessary, every county jail, almshouse and every municipal jail or prison in any incorporated town or city in this state having 10,000 or more population, according to the most recent federal census, and shall aid in securing the just, humane and economic management of all such institutions, shall require the erection of sanitary buildings for the accommodation of the inmates of such institutions and shall investigate the management of all such institutions and the conduct and efficiency of the officers or persons charged with their management. It shall require that the buildings and grounds of such institutions be kept in the best sanitary condition, make a detailed report to the Governor after each visit of the number of inmates in each such jail, prison and almshouse, their condition as to health, the condition in which the buildings are kept, the arrangement for the sanitation of buildings and grounds, the cost of the management of such institutions and of keeping the inmates and whether the money appropriated for such purposes is properly expended therefor, and it shall at the same time give a copy of its report to the county commission, city council, or other board or body having control over the jail, prison or almshouse dealt with in such report, together with such recommendations for the betterment of the conditions thereof as it may deem necessary.

(Code 1907, §7215; Acts 1911, No. 303, p. 356; Code 1923, §4852; Acts 1939, No. 91, p. 118; Code 1940, T. 45, §160.)