Printable Format19-1901. Jail services. Every county shall provide jail services, at the expense of the county, for the safekeeping of prisoners lawfully committed.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 53, § 1; R.S. 1923, 19-1901; L. 2023, ch. 83, § 2; July 1.
Cross References to Related Sections:
Jails in other cities, see 19-1923.
Attorney General's Opinions:
County buildings; power of county commission to construct; fees and salaries; allowance for deputies. 79-279.
Use of moneys in city's industrial fund. 82-264.
County buildings; financing cost; issuance of bonds. 86-167.
County contracts with out of state public agency for housing misdemeanants and juvenile offenders; conditions. 97-50.
Sheriff must accept city prisoner taken to county jail but not responsible if taken directly to medical facility. 2007-39.
The term "jail" should be given its ordinary meaning. 2014-12.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Duty of commissioners to furnish good and sufficient jail. Comm'rs of Osborne Co. v. Honn, 23 Kan. 256, 258.
2. County liable to sheriff only, for board and lodging of prisoners. Hendricks v. Comm'rs of Chautauqua Co., 35 Kan. 483, 485, 11 P. 450.
3. County not liable to inmates for insanitary condition of jail. Pfefferle v. Comm'rs of Lyon Co., 39 Kan. 432, 436, 18 P. 506.
4. County must maintain jail in healthful and sanitary condition. Norton v. Simms, 85 Kan. 822, 824, 118 P. 1071.
5. Provisions of section read into sheriff's bond whether in actual bond or not. Farmer v. Rutherford, 136 Kan. 298, 304, 15 P.2d 474.