{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-431.130","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 431.130","heading":"Confinement in penitentiary, county jail or workhouse -- Nature.","body":"Prisoners sentenced to punishment by confinement in the penitentiary shall be kept at\nhard labor. If the punishment is imprisonment in the jail of the county, the imprisonment\nshall be close confinement in the jail of the county where the trial was held, u nless\notherwise provided. In any jurisdiction where there is a county workhouse the court may\nin its discretion confine the prisoner to the county workhouse instead of the county jail.","path":["KRS Chapter 431"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=18595","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:59:45Z","sha256":"58c50e27038271ba3d3b565ebd3389485734f9f600e38edabaa22985858954bf","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-431.120","next":"us-ky/krs-431.140"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}