Contracts may be made with any county in the state, or with the trustees of any town or village in Cook County, for the care and custody of prisoners in the house of correction, at a price not less than $.25 per day for each prisoner. All such contracts shall extend for the care of such prisoners until the expiration of their terms of sentence. Under such contracts the labor of every such prisoner shall be the property of, and for the benefit of the city.
(Prior code § 26-24)