KRS 431.130: Confinement in penitentiary, county jail or workhouse -- Nature.

Prisoners sentenced to punishment by confinement in the penitentiary shall be kept at

hard labor. If the punishment is imprisonment in the jail of the county, the imprisonment

shall be close confinement in the jail of the county where the trial was held, u nless

otherwise provided. In any jurisdiction where there is a county workhouse the court may

in its discretion confine the prisoner to the county workhouse instead of the county jail.