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Reform School. manner prescribed by law, the rules and regulations of the penitentiary and in conformity to the respective sentences under which they are confined.

ARTICLE 6.- DIMINUTION OF SENTENCE FOR GOOD CONDUCT.

§ 8542. Diminution regulated. Powers of trustees. Every person committed to the penitentiary under sentence other than for life, who shall, at the end of the first month of his imprisonment, have no infraction of the rules and regulations thereof recorded against him, shall be entitled to a diminution of two days from the term of his sentence; and if at the end of the second month no infraction of said rules and regulations is recorded against him, a diminution, for that month of four days from the term of his sentence, and if he shall continue to have no such record against him for the third month a diminution of six days from the term of his sentence; and thereafter he shall be entitled to six days diminution from the term of his sentence for each month in which he shall have no such record against him; and it shall be the duty of the warden to discharge any such person from the penitentiary when he shall have served the time of his sentence less the number of days he may be entitled to have deducted therefrom for his good behavior as herein before provided, and in the same manner and as if no such deduction had been made: provided, that if any person committed to the penitentiary shall be guilty of the violation of any of the rules and regulations thereof, after he shall, as provided in this section, have become entitled to a diminution of the term of his sentence, the board of trustees may and are hereby empowered, at its discretion, to deprive such person of a portion or all, (according to the flagrancy of his infraction of the rules and regulations) of the diminution of the term of his sentence and the determination of the board of trustees in that regard shall be entered at length in the record of its proceedings and a copy thereof delivered to the offender by the warden; and provided, further, that any person confined in the penitentiary at the taking effect of this code shall be entitled to the benefits of this section for the remainder of the term of his sentence at the rate of six days diminution per month for good behavior.

§ 8543. Warden to keep record. Certificate of good conduct. The warden shall keep a true record of the conduct of each inmate of the penitentiary, specifying each infraction of the rules and regulations thereof and at the end of each month he shall give to each inmate who shall require it and against whom no infraction of the rules and regulations is recorded, a certificate of good conduct and therein specify the number of days by which the term of such inmate's sentence is diminished, as hereinbefore provided, by such good conduct; provided, that in case any inmate shall believe he has not been fairly or justly treated by the warden or any officer of the penitentiary in the keeping of said record he shall, upon request, be taken before the board of trustees at any regular monthly meeting and it shall be the of said board to hear and carefully investigate any complaint in regard to said record and require the same to be corrected as may be just, and the determination of the board shall be entered at length in the record of its proceedings, and a copy thereof given to said inmate by the warden.

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