Whenever any person has been convicted of crime in any court in the District of Columbia and sentenced to imprisonment for more than 1 year by the court, the imprisonment during the term for which he may have been sentenced or during the residue of said term may be in some suitable jail, or penitentiary, or in the Reformatory of the District of Columbia; and it shall be sufficient for the court to sentence the defendant to imprisonment in the penitentiary without specifying the particular prison or the Reformatory of the District of Columbia and the imprisonment shall be in such penitentiary, jail, or the Reformatory of the District of Columbia as the Attorney General shall from time to time designate; provided, that the Mayor of the District of Columbia is vested with jurisdiction over such male and female prisoners as may be designated by the Attorney General for confinement in the Reformatory of the District of Columbia from the time they are delivered into his custody or into the custody of his authorized Superintendent, deputy, or deputies, and until such prisoners are released or discharged under due process of law; and provided further, that the residue of the term of imprisonment of any person who has prior to July 1, 1916, been convicted of crime in any court in the District of Columbia and sentenced to imprisonment for more than 1 year by the court may be in the Reformatory of the District of Columbia instead of the penitentiary where such persons may be confined on July 1, 1916, and the Attorney General, when so requested by the Mayor of the District of Columbia, is authorized to, and he shall, deliver into the custody of the Superintendent of said Reformatory or his deputy or deputies any such person confined in any penitentiary in pursuance of any judgment of conviction in and sentence by any court in the District of Columbia, and the Mayor of the District of Columbia is vested with jurisdiction over such prisoners from the time they are delivered into the custody of said Superintendent or his duly authorized deputy or deputies, including the time when they are in transit between such penitentiary and the Reformatory of the District of Columbia, and during the period they are in such Reformatory or until they are released or discharged under due process of law. The Attorney General shall pay the cost of the maintenance of said prisoners so transferred, said payment to be from appropriations for support of convicts, District of Columbia, in like manner as payments are made for the support of District convicts in federal penitentiaries. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as applying to the National Training School for Boys or the National Training School for Girls.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, the Attorney General, and the Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail, when so requested by the Mayor of the District of Columbia, shall deliver into the custody of the Superintendent or the authorized deputy or deputies of said Superintendent of the Workhouse, male and female prisoners sentenced to confinement in said Jail for offenses against the common law or against statutes or ordinances relating to the District of Columbia, and, in the discretion of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and the Attorney General, male and female prisoners serving sentence in said Jail for offenses against the United States, for such work or services as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Mayor of said District, in connection with the construction, maintenance, and operation of said Workhouse, or the prosecution of any other public work at said institution or in the District of Columbia; provided, that, on the direction of said Mayor, male and female prisoners confined in any existing workhouse existing on March 2, 1911, or in the Washington Asylum and Jail of the District of Columbia shall be delivered into the custody of said Superintendent or the authorized deputy or deputies of said Superintendent aforesaid, to perform similar work or services to those hereinbefore required of male and female prisoners serving sentences in the District of Columbia Jail; provided further, that, the Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby vested with jurisdiction over such male and female prisoners from the time they are so delivered into the custody of said Superintendent or the duly authorized deputy or deputies of said Superintendent, including the time when such prisoners are in transit between the District of Columbia and the site acquired for such Workhouse, and during the period such prisoners are on such site or in the District of Columbia until they are released or discharged under due process of law.

In all cases in the District of Columbia where a defendant is sent to jail or to the Workhouse in default of the payment of a fine he shall be released upon the payment of the balance of the fine due by him after crediting thereon as paid an amount equal to the proportion the time thus served by him in the Jail or Workhouse bears to the whole time he was to serve under the sentence.

All inmates of the Workhouse and Reformatory for the District of Columbia shall be returned to and released in said District on the day of the expiration of sentence.

The Jail of the District of Columbia and the Washington Asylum of said District shall be combined as 1 institution, known as the Washington Asylum and Jail.

Whenever and wherever authority of law exists to sentence, commit, order committed, or confine any person to or in the Jail of the District of Columbia or the Washington Asylum of said District, said authority shall be exercised by sentence, commitment, order of commitment, or confinement to or in said Washington Asylum and Jail.

The Department of Corrections is hereby authorized and directed to receive and keep in the Washington Asylum and Jail all prisoners committed thereto for offenses against the United States.

The superintendents and all other employees engaged on March 16, 1926, in the operation of the Workhouse at Occoquan in the State of Virginia, the Reformatory at Lorton in the State of Virginia, and the Washington Asylum and Jail shall after March 16, 1926, be subject to the supervision of the Department of Corrections. Each superintendent shall have the management and control of the institution to which he is appointed and shall be subordinate to the Director of the Department of Corrections. The superintendent and all other employees of each of the institutions enumerated in this section shall be appointed by the Mayor of the District of Columbia upon nomination by the Department of Corrections and shall be subject to discharge by the Mayor upon recommendation of the Department of Corrections.

Persons sentenced to imprisonment in the Jail may be employed at such labor and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Council of the District of Columbia and the proceeds thereof applied to defray the expenses of the trial and conviction of any such person.

Nothing in §§ 24-201.12 and 24-201.15 shall be construed to impair or interfere with the authority of the Marshal of the District to commit persons to the Jail or to produce them in open court or before any judicial officer when thereto required.

It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail to receive such prisoners and to deliver them to the Marshal or his duly authorized deputy, on the written request of either, for the purpose of taking them before any court or judicial officer, as provided in § 24-201.13.

The Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail shall be accountable for the safekeeping of all prisoners legally committed thereto.

The Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail shall annually, in the month of November, make a detailed report to the Attorney General.

The Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail appointed by the Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby directed, authorized, and required to execute the judgments of the law prior to March 4, 1923, pronounced and thereafter to be pronounced in the District of Columbia by the courts thereof in all capital cases, and the power prior to March 4, 1923, given to and now vested in such Mayor to appoint such Superintendent and all appointments to the position of such Superintendent made by such Mayor are hereby ratified and confirmed; and any failure on the part of Congress, either prior to or after March 4, 1923, to make a specific appropriation for the salary or compensation of such Superintendent shall not be construed either as an abolition of such position of Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail or as a repeal of the power and authority of such Mayor to appoint such Superintendent.

The buildings and grounds adjoining the Washington Asylum in the District of Columbia, used prior to June 16, 1880, as a naval and army magazine are added to the grounds of the Washington Asylum and Jail and subjected to the control of the Mayor of the District of Columbia as part of the Asylum until otherwise ordered.

There shall be allowed and paid by the Attorney General for the subsistence of prisoners in the custody of any marshal of the United States and the Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail in the District of Columbia such sum as it reasonably and actually costs to subsist them. And it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prescribe such regulations for the government of the marshals and the Superintendent of the Washington Asylum and Jail in the District of Columbia in relation to their duties under §§ 24- 201.12 to 24-201.16 and this section as will enable him to determine the actual and reasonable expenses incurred.

All expenses incurred for maintenance of the Jail of the District of Columbia and for support of prisoners therein shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and estimates for such expenses shall each year be submitted in the annual estimates for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia.

The United States shall be reimbursed, as heretofore, for the maintenance of District of Columbia inmates, and all sums paid by such District for such maintenance for the service of the fiscal year 1927 and subsequent fiscal years shall be covered into the Treasury as "miscellaneous receipts."

The cost of the care and custody of District of Columbia convicts in any federal penitentiary shall be charged against the District of Columbia in quarterly accounts to be rendered by the disbursing officer of said penitentiary; and the amount to be charged against the District of Columbia shall be ascertained by multiplying the average daily number of District of Columbia convicts confined in the penitentiary during the quarter by the per capita cost for all prisoners in such penitentiary for the same quarter but excluding expenses of construction or extraordinary repair of buildings.

All prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia for any offense, including violations of municipal regulations and ordinances and acts of Congress in the nature of municipal regulations and ordinances, shall be committed, for their terms of imprisonment, and to such types of institutions as the court may direct, to the custody of the Attorney General of the United States or his authorized representative, who shall designate the places of confinements where the sentences of all such persons shall be served. The Attorney General may designate any available, suitable, and appropriate institutions, whether maintained by the District of Columbia government, the federal government, or otherwise, or whether within or without the District of Columbia. The Attorney General is also authorized to order the transfer of any such person from one institution to another if, in his judgment, it shall be for the well-being of the prisoner, or relieve overcrowding or unhealthful conditions in the institution where such prisoner is confined, or for other reasons.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Council of the District of Columbia, is authorized to provide for the payment of rewards for the capture, or for information leading to the apprehension, of fugitives from District of Columbia penal, correctional, and welfare institutions and of conditional release and parole violators. Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be apportioned and expended in the discretion of, and upon such conditions as may be imposed by, the Mayor of the District of Columbia. No reward money shall be paid to any officer or employee of the Metropolitan Police Department, or of any penal, correctional, or welfare institution, or of any court, legal agency, or other agency closely involved in the criminal justice system.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to furnish each prisoner upon his release from a penal or correctional institution under the jurisdiction of the government of the District of Columbia with suitable clothing and, in the discretion of the Mayor, a sum of money, which shall not exceed $100.