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Statutes > Alabama > Title14 > Chapter6 > 14-6-3Section 14-6-3
Who may be confined in county jail.
In addition to convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, the jail is used as a prison for the safekeeping or confinement of the following persons:
(1) Persons committed for trial for public offenses;
(2) Convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, until their removal thereto;
(3) Persons committed for contempt or on civil process;
(4) Persons committed on failure to give security for their appearance as witnesses in any criminal case;
(5) Persons charged with, or convicted of, a criminal offense against the United States;
(6) Insane persons, pending transfer to a mental hospital or other disposition; and
(7) All other persons committed thereto by authority of law.
(Code 1852, §237; Code 1867, §3785; Code 1876, §4487; Code 1886, §4536; Code 1896, §4947; Code 1907, §7192; Code 1923, §4802; Code 1940, T. 45, §117.)