ADMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES Under an opinion of the Attorney General, a sheriff is not authorized to receive a prisoner in his jail until after such person has been arraigned and regularly committed by a justice, judge or magistrate, or other legal process. County Jail Regulations Page 6.Left is an icon image of Page 6 of the 28-page SCOC's Regulations for Management of County Jails (1936, 1944). Click on it to access a web frame page with a readable 225K JPG version (at the bottom of which is a link to click to return here). A 142K Adobe Acrobat (PDF) scanned version of Page 6, downloadable and printable, is also available. Click the Acrobat Reader icon right to access it. Use your browser's "back" button to return to this web page. It is the duty of each sheriff to "safely keep" all prisoners committed to his custody. Any person who is permitted outside the jail without lawful authority is considered an escape. The Attorney General has rendered an opinion that "lawful authority," as provided in Section 92 of the County Law, means the authority given by an order made or granted by a court or judge having competent jurisdiction, and that the only exception thereto is the authority conferred upon the Board of Supervisors or County Judge of a Countyas set forth in Section 93 of the County Law. No prisonersn should be released until the legal expiration of sentence, or as otherwise directed by the court. The committing maginstrate cannot order the release of a prisoner under sentence, ex- 6