Section 500-I. County workhouses  


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  • 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.