KRS 533.025: Rate of payment by department to county for incarceration of persons in

jail -- Payment of work release fees to jailer and deduction from department's

payment -- Department's custody of prisoner for specified medical conditions.

(1) When a person is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or enters an Alford plea to a felony

offense and is sentenced to jail as a condition of conditional discharge or as a

condition of probation, the Department of Corrections shall pay for the

incarceration of that person i n a jail at the same rate and under the same conditions

as for a Class D felon who is incarcerated in the jail under KRS 532.100.

(2) If a person incarcerated in a jail on conditional discharge or probation under

subsection (1) of this section is granted w ork release, he or she shall pay the work

release fees required by law to the jailer. The amount of work release fees paid by a

prisoner shall be deducted from the amount which the Department of Corrections

shall pay for the incarceration of that prisoner.

(3) The Department of Corrections may, during the prisoner's period of incarceration in

the jail, take custody of the prisoner and hold that person in a state prison facility for

the purpose of treating the following medical conditions:

(a) Chronic heart and lung conditions;

(b) Psychiatric conditions;

(c) Acute medical conditions that require diagnostic testing or hospitalization;

(d) Acute surgical conditions;

(e) Pregnancy; or

(f) Any other medical condition which the Department of Corrections may set out

by administrative regulation.