Title 14 — CRIMINAL CORRECTIONAL AND DETENTION FACILITIES.
- Chapter 1 — BOARD AND DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.
- Section 14-1-1.1 Department of Corrections - Creation, duties, responsibilities, etc.
- Section 14-1-1.2 Department of Corrections - Administration of penal and corrections institutions.
- Section 14-1-1.3 Commissioner of Corrections - Appointment; salary; duties.
- Section 14-1-1.4 Commissioner of Corrections - Qualifications; oath; bond.
- Section 14-1-1.5 Deputy commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications; salary.
- Section 14-1-10 Functions and duties - Power and authority - Exercise; restrictions.
- Section 14-1-11 Functions and duties - Power and authority - Rules and regulations.
- Section 14-1-12 Treatment, care and segregation of tubercular and other convict patients needing long-time hospitalization.
- Section 14-1-13 Fiscal year; annual report; periodic recommendations.
- Section 14-1-14 Corrections Revolving Fund.
- Section 14-1-15 Duties, authority, property, rights, etc., of Board of Corrections vested in Governor.
- Section 14-1-16 Board of Corrections abolished; rights, duties, powers, property, etc., vested in Governor.
- Section 14-1-17 Governor authorized to exercise functions, designate administrator, set salary and designate duties.
- Section 14-1-18 Capital Outlay Oversight Commission; creation, composition; appointment; meetings; quorum; capital outlays and capital improvements; compensation; funding from oil and gas leases.
- Section 14-1-4 Officers and employees generally.
- Section 14-1-5 Bond of officers and employees.
- Section 14-1-7 Administrative divisions; chiefs of divisions.
- Section 14-1-8 Functions and duties - Generally.
- Section 14-1-9 Functions and duties - Advisor to Governor and Legislature; notice to Governor and Legislature prior to construction of permanent facilities at prisons.
- Chapter 2 — ALABAMA CORRECTIONS INSTITUTION FINANCE AUTHORITY.
- Section 14-2-1 Definitions.
- Section 14-2-10 Temporary loans in anticipation of issuance of bonds.
- Section 14-2-11 Execution of bonds and notes.
- Section 14-2-12 Bonds - Authorization.
- Section 14-2-13 Bonds - Sale and issuance of refunding bonds.
- Section 14-2-13.1 Bonds - Limitations on issuance of refunding bonds; present value of debt service; average maturity of refunding bonds.
- Section 14-2-14 Bonds - Specifications; redemption; precedence.
- Section 14-2-15 Bonds - Recital, notice and contest of authorizing resolution, etc.
- Section 14-2-16 Bonds - Sale.
- Section 14-2-16.1 Bonds - Report to Legislature; contents.
- Section 14-2-17 Bonds - Investment of surplus in state fund, etc., and trust funds.
- Section 14-2-18 Bonds - Security for deposit of governmental funds.
- Section 14-2-19 Bonds - Disposition of proceeds.
- Section 14-2-2 Purpose of chapter; construction thereof.
- Section 14-2-20 Bonds - Investment of proceeds.
- Section 14-2-21 Bonds - Security.
- Section 14-2-22 Bonds - Enforcement upon default.
- Section 14-2-23 Bonds - Bonds and coupons deemed negotiable instruments.
- Section 14-2-24 Obligations, bonds and notes not debt of state.
- Section 14-2-25 Conveyance of property by state; right to possession thereof; consideration therefor.
- Section 14-2-26 Kilby property - Sale or lease by authority.
- Section 14-2-27 Kilby property - Lease to United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- Section 14-2-28 Facilities - Construction.
- Section 14-2-28.1 Facilities - Determination on provider of telephone service.
- Section 14-2-29 Facilities - Leasing - State or agency thereof.
- Section 14-2-3 Incorporation by state officials - Authority.
- Section 14-2-30 Facilities - Leasing - County, municipal corporation, agency of federal government, etc.
- Section 14-2-31 Special funds.
- Section 14-2-32 Exemption from taxation.
- Section 14-2-33 Venue for actions.
- Section 14-2-34 Dissolution.
- Section 14-2-35 Fees of Secretary of State.
- Section 14-2-36 Exemption from competitive bid laws.
- Section 14-2-4 Incorporation by state officials - Application.
- Section 14-2-5 Incorporation by state officials - Certificate of incorporation.
- Section 14-2-6 Members; officers; directors; quorum; vacancies; salaries.
- Section 14-2-7 Resolutions and proceedings of board of directors.
- Section 14-2-8 Powers - Generally.
- Section 14-2-9 Powers - Eminent domain.
- Chapter 3 — PRISON SYSTEM.
- Section 14-3-1 Duties of Board of Corrections generally.
- Section 14-3-11 Transmission of reports to Legislature.
- Section 14-3-12 Appointment of chaplains and assistant chaplains.
- Section 14-3-13 Officers and guards - Oath of office.
- Section 14-3-14 Officers and guards - Powers of policemen.
- Section 14-3-15 Officers and guards - Pursuit and arrest of escaped convicts.
- Section 14-3-16 Penalty for violation of chapter.
- Section 14-3-2 State lands - Sale and purchase; appropriations for purchase.
- Section 14-3-3 State lands - Improvements.
- Section 14-3-30 Temporary confinement of convict pending removal; inmate developing medical condition which requires treatment.
- Section 14-3-31 Imprisonment on commuted sentence.
- Section 14-3-32 Federal prisoners.
- Section 14-3-33 Delivery of convict by sheriff.
- Section 14-3-34 Detention of convict en route.
- Section 14-3-35 Information regarding convict; search of convict's baggage and person.
- Section 14-3-36 Taking charge of convict's effects.
- Section 14-3-37 Removal from penitentiary when judgment reversed.
- Section 14-3-38 How sentences to be served on two or more convictions; effect of convict's conduct thereon.
- Section 14-3-39 Guards for female convicts.
- Section 14-3-4 State lands - Renting out.
- Section 14-3-40 Separation of convicts - Male and female.
- Section 14-3-41 Separation of convicts - Convicts suffering from tuberculosis.
- Section 14-3-42 Removal of convicts - Insanity.
- Section 14-3-43 Removal of convicts - Disease or other urgent necessity.
- Section 14-3-44 Clothing of convicts.
- Section 14-3-45 Diet.
- Section 14-3-46 Bibles and other reading matter.
- Section 14-3-47 Employment - Authorized; regulations; department authorized to establish posts; camps, etc., for labor, discipline, etc., programs; limitations.
- Section 14-3-48 Employment - Exemptions; holidays.
- Section 14-3-49 Employment - Working for themselves.
- Section 14-3-5 Use of net income from convict labor.
- Section 14-3-50 Confinement in unhealthy or unfit cells, etc.
- Section 14-3-51 Punishment - Restrictions generally.
- Section 14-3-52 Punishment - Cruel or excessive punishment; corporal punishment; records to be kept.
- Section 14-3-53 Shackles and chains.
- Section 14-3-54 Inquiry into management and treatment of convicts.
- Section 14-3-55 Comments on prison management in presence of convicts.
- Section 14-3-56 Commission of offense during incarceration - Confinement or bail.
- Section 14-3-57 Commission of offense during incarceration - Evidence of conviction on trial.
- Section 14-3-58 Proceedings and reward upon escape of convict.
- Section 14-3-59 Posting of regulations and code provisions on escapes.
- Section 14-3-6 Official correspondence and public documents.
- Section 14-3-60 Spirituous and intoxicating liquors.
- Section 14-3-7 Record of convicts and other books.
- Section 14-3-70 Legislative intent.
- Section 14-3-71 Department authorized to install high voltage electrified security fence systems.
- Section 14-3-72 Installation.
- Section 14-3-73 Liability of providers for injury or death as result of system.
- Section 14-3-8 Sentence card to be furnished each convict.
- Section 14-3-9 Reporting of violations of law; investigation and inspection division; where violations tried; full police powers for correctional investigative services officers; minimum standards.
- Chapter 4 — COUNTY CONVICTS.
- Section 14-4-1 Applicability of laws and rules pertaining to state convicts.
- Section 14-4-10 Sentencing of convicts - Sentences for costs.
- Section 14-4-11 Superintendent of Public Works - Appointment.
- Section 14-4-12 Superintendent of Public Works - Bond.
- Section 14-4-13 Superintendent of Public Works - Duties.
- Section 14-4-14 Oath of Superintendent of Public Works and guards.
- Section 14-4-2 Superintendence and control of convicts.
- Section 14-4-3 Maintenance of record of convicts by Board of Corrections; report to board by probate judge.
- Section 14-4-4 Report of hard labor sentence to probate judge.
- Section 14-4-5 Record of convicts to be kept by probate judge.
- Section 14-4-6 Work on public roads - Rules and regulations.
- Section 14-4-7 Work on public roads - Female convicts.
- Section 14-4-8 Work on public roads - Tobacco allowance and noon meals.
- Section 14-4-9 Sentencing of convicts - How sentence served on two or more convictions; effect of convict's conduct thereon.
- Chapter 5 — CONVICT LABOR.
- Section 14-5-1 "Hard labor for the county" defined.
- Section 14-5-10 Hiring or leasing of convicts by Board of Corrections with state agencies, etc.
- Section 14-5-11 Employment of state or county inmates by certain persons prohibited; penalty.
- Section 14-5-2 Hiring or leasing of convicts generally.
- Section 14-5-3 Working convicts in coal mines.
- Section 14-5-30 Legislative intent.
- Section 14-5-31 Establishment of community-based manual labor camps.
- Section 14-5-32 Mentally or physically impaired inmates to be periodicallly examined.
- Section 14-5-33 Emphasis of program on removal of litter from highways, cleaning of unauthorized dumps and public cemetaries, etc.
- Section 14-5-34 Program may be used for removal of litter on private cemetary, church property, and private property where nuisance.
- Section 14-5-35 Exemptions.
- Section 14-5-36 Work incentive credits; refusal to work or comply with standards.
- Section 14-5-37 Article does not authorize Commissioner to reduce sentence.
- Section 14-5-4 Penalty for violating Sections 14-5-2 and 14-5-3.
- Section 14-5-5 County convicts - Authority to work generally; lease to persons, firms or corporations prohibited; working in and around public buildings and works.
- Section 14-5-6 County convicts - Drains and drainage districts.
- Section 14-5-7 Work on drains or drainage districts by state convicts.
- Section 14-5-8 Agreement to use of convict labor under Sections 14-5-6, 14-5-7 and 14-11-2 - County convicts.
- Section 14-5-9 Agreement to use of convict labor under Sections 14-5-6, 14-5-7 and 14-11-2 - State convicts.
- Chapter 6 — JAILS.
- Section 14-6-1 Legal custody and charge of jails and prisoners; appointment of jailer.
- Section 14-6-10 Removal of prisoners - Use of guards.
- Section 14-6-100 Probate judge to furnish grand jury report to Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-101 Notification of Board of Corrections as to alterations, etc.
- Section 14-6-102 Special session of county commission.
- Section 14-6-103 Size, etc., of jails, etc.
- Section 14-6-104 Payment of expenses of maintenance, etc., of jails, etc.
- Section 14-6-105 Deputies, watchmen, etc., for jails, etc.
- Section 14-6-106 Inspection of prisons, convict camps, jails, etc. - Authorization.
- Section 14-6-107 Inspection of prisons, convict camps, jails, etc. - Powers and effect of orders of Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-108 Visiting of places outside the state by Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-109 Penalty for violations of provisions of article for which no other penalty provided.
- Section 14-6-11 Summoning of guards to prevent escape.
- Section 14-6-12 Commencement of imprisonment on second or subsequent conviction.
- Section 14-6-13 Separation of men and women.
- Section 14-6-14 Duty of sheriff to furnish list of confined prisoners to circuit court.
- Section 14-6-15 Commitment or discharge of prisoners - Duty of sheriff to report to clerk of circuit court.
- Section 14-6-16 Commitment or discharge of prisoners - Duty to file process or order.
- Section 14-6-17 Furnishing of support to prisoners.
- Section 14-6-18 Furnishing of spirituous, etc., liquors.
- Section 14-6-19 Clothing, bedding and medical attention.
- Section 14-6-2 Delivery of jail, etc., upon death, etc., of sheriff.
- Section 14-6-20 Appointment of physicians; terms, compensation and duties thereof.
- Section 14-6-21 Allowing jail, etc., to become foul or unclean.
- Section 14-6-22 Misdemeanant required to pay costs of incarceration; remission of costs; amount and method of payment; payment of costs as condition of probation, etc., authorized; procedure upon defa
- Section 14-6-3 Who may be confined in county jail.
- Section 14-6-4 Duty to receive and keep federal prisoners.
- Section 14-6-40 Duty to feed prisoners.
- Section 14-6-41 Supervision.
- Section 14-6-42 Allowance - Amount per capita.
- Section 14-6-43 Allowance - Preparation and service, etc.
- Section 14-6-47 Forms for records and statements.
- Section 14-6-48 Failure of sheriff to maintain account book, etc.
- Section 14-6-5 Refusal to receive prisoner into custody.
- Section 14-6-50 Penalty for violation of article.
- Section 14-6-6 Commitment to nearest sufficient jail to insure safekeeping.
- Section 14-6-60 Removal of tubercular prisoners to state hospital.
- Section 14-6-61 Applicability of article to persons confined pending appeal.
- Section 14-6-62 Payment of expenses of removal.
- Section 14-6-7 Removal of prisoners - When made to nearest sufficient jail.
- Section 14-6-8 Removal of prisoners - Fire.
- Section 14-6-80 Cities of 10,000 or over embraced in article.
- Section 14-6-81 Duties of state agency.
- Section 14-6-82 Authority to order jail, etc., put in proper condition.
- Section 14-6-83 Power to condemn jails.
- Section 14-6-84 Sheriffs, etc., to furnish information on request.
- Section 14-6-85 Penalty for failure to provide information, etc.
- Section 14-6-86 Formulation of rules and regulations.
- Section 14-6-87 Ordering, etc., of alterations, etc.
- Section 14-6-88 Ordering, etc., of removal of prisoners, etc.
- Section 14-6-89 Ordering, etc., of return of prisoners, etc.
- Section 14-6-9 Removal of prisoners - Ill health.
- Section 14-6-90 Penalty for refusal to obey orders of board of corrections.
- Section 14-6-91 Publication of reports, etc.
- Section 14-6-92 Fumigating, cleansing and painting jails generally.
- Section 14-6-93 Janitor service, bathing facilities, etc.
- Section 14-6-94 Prisoners to be compelled to bathe.
- Section 14-6-95 Jails, etc., to be kept clean, etc.
- Section 14-6-96 Fumigation of jails, etc., where persons with infectious, etc., diseases confined.
- Section 14-6-97 Duty of sheriff, etc., as to food.
- Section 14-6-98 Monthly report to Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-99 Appointment of special coroner.
- Chapter 6A — MULTI-COUNTY ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL JAIL AUTHORITIES.
- Section 14-6A-1 Establishing or joining regional jail authority.
- Section 14-6A-2 Powers.
- Section 14-6A-3 Board of directors.
- Section 14-6A-30 Establishing or joining regional jail authority.
- Section 14-6A-31 Powers.
- Section 14-6A-32 Board of directors.
- Section 14-6A-33 Facility to serve as municipal jail; employees; duty of superintendent.
- Section 14-6A-34 Governmental entity.
- Section 14-6A-35 Scope of authority.
- Section 14-6A-36 Tax exemptions.
- Section 14-6A-37 Obligations of authority.
- Section 14-6A-38 Dissolution.
- Section 14-6A-39 Applicability.
- Section 14-6A-4 Facility to serve as county jail; sheriff's authority; employees; duty of superintendent.
- Section 14-6A-5 Governmental entity.
- Section 14-6A-6 Scope of authority.
- Section 14-6A-7 Tax exemptions.
- Section 14-6A-8 Obligations of authority.
- Section 14-6A-9 Dissolution.
- Chapter 7 — PRISON-MADE GOODS.
- Section 14-7-10 Manufactured or produced articles or products - Specifications.
- Section 14-7-11 Manufactured or produced articles or products - Prices.
- Section 14-7-12 Manufactured or produced articles or products - Catalogues; requests for manufacture or production of additional articles or products.
- Section 14-7-13 Manufactured or produced articles or products - Requirement as to purchase of articles or products by state offices, etc., generally; purchases by political subdivisions.
- Section 14-7-14 Manufactured or produced articles or products - Exceptions as to requirement of purchase of articles or products by state offices, etc.
- Section 14-7-15 Reports as to purchases by state offices, etc.
- Section 14-7-16 Reports as to purchases by state offices, etc. - Priorities as to purposes to which articles or products to be devoted.
- Section 14-7-16.1 Volunteer fire department and rescue squad organizations purchase of goods and services offered by Correctional Industries Division.
- Section 14-7-17 Reports of annual audits by State Auditor.
- Section 14-7-18 Preparation and promulgation of policies as to administration of chapter.
- Section 14-7-19 Authorization of Industrial Revolving Fund and expenditures therefrom.
- Section 14-7-20 Disposition of proceeds from sale, etc., of articles or products; transfer to State General Fund of excess funds in Industrial Revolving Fund.
- Section 14-7-21 Sale, etc., of surplus agricultural products and personal property.
- Section 14-7-22 Sale or offer for sale on open market of articles or products manufactured by prisoners.
- Section 14-7-23 Construction of chapter.
- Section 14-7-6 Short title.
- Section 14-7-7 Purpose of chapter.
- Section 14-7-8 Purchase of equipment, etc., and employment of supervisory personnel by Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-7-9 Issuance of press release and notice as to public hearing upon decision of Board of Corrections to obligate funds to initiation of manufacturing in industry in which not previously enga
- Chapter 8 — TEMPORARY RELEASE PROGRAMS.
- Section 14-8-1 Definitions.
- Section 14-8-10 Penalty for violating article.
- Section 14-8-2 Authority to adopt regulations and policies to implement program.
- Section 14-8-3 Investigations and recommendations.
- Section 14-8-30 Definitions.
- Section 14-8-31 Authorization for and establishment of work release programs by counties; contracts between Board of Corrections and counties as to costs of maintenance of state inmates participating
- Section 14-8-32 Establishment of work release camps.
- Section 14-8-33 Adoption of regulations and policies for extension of limits of confinement of inmates; assignment and transfer of state inmates participating in programs; protests by sentencing judge
- Section 14-8-34 Investigations and recommendations by employees of Board of Corrections and counties pertaining to requests for visits or job opportunities, etc.
- Section 14-8-35 Conditions as to employment of inmates.
- Section 14-8-36 Employment of inmates by state or counties generally; wages to be paid inmates employed thereby.
- Section 14-8-37 Disposition of earnings of inmates.
- Section 14-8-38 Eligibility of inmates for good time credit.
- Section 14-8-39 Granting of leaves and passes to inmates.
- Section 14-8-4 Limitations on securing employment.
- Section 14-8-40 Inmates not deemed state agents, etc.; cause of action against county, etc.
- Section 14-8-41 Designation by counties and Board of Corrections of officers or employees to do or perform acts or functions authorized by article.
- Section 14-8-42 Willful failure of inmate to remain within extended limits of confinement or return to place of confinement within time prescribed.
- Section 14-8-43 Penalty for violations of provisions of article.
- Section 14-8-44 Construction of article generally; effect of article upon existing programs operating or functioning pursuant to local law.
- Section 14-8-5 Inmate not deemed agent, etc., of Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-8-6 Disposition of earnings.
- Section 14-8-60 Definitions.
- Section 14-8-61 Adoption of rules, regulations and policies extending limits of confinement of inmates seeking employment and place of residence.
- Section 14-8-62 Adoption of rules, regulations and policies extending limits of confinement for inmates studying vocational or educational curricula.
- Section 14-8-63 Adoption of regulations as to eligibility for extension of confinement of inmates classified as minimum security risks.
- Section 14-8-64 Investigations and recommendations by employees of Board of Corrections pertaining to requests for visits or job opportunities, etc.
- Section 14-8-65 Inmates not deemed agents, etc., of Board of Corrections while going to and from employment, etc.
- Section 14-8-66 Annual report; promotion of public understanding and encouragement of cooperation of state agencies.
- Section 14-8-67 Willful failure of inmate to remain within extended limits of confinement or return to place of confinement within time prescribed.
- Section 14-8-7 Good time.
- Section 14-8-9 Annual report; public understanding.
- Chapter 9 — DEDUCTIONS FROM SENTENCES.
- Section 14-9-3 Donation of blood.
- Section 14-9-40 Short title.
- Section 14-9-41 Computation of incentive time deductions.
- Section 14-9-42 Effect of deductions on parole.
- Section 14-9-43 Good conduct time previously earned; applicability of article.
- Section 14-9-44 Nonretroactive effect of article; effect on habitual offender laws.
- Chapter 10 — DISCHARGING CONVICTS.
- Section 14-10-1 Furnishing of clothing and transportation to state inmate requiring same at expiration of term; rules and regulations; documentation for identification; waiver.
- Section 14-10-2 Additional cash payment upon release; determination of inmates requiring same; waiver.
- Section 14-10-3 Penalty for wrongful discharge by public official.
- Chapter 11 — OFFENSES CONCERNING PRISONERS AND PRISONS.
- Section 14-11-1 Overworking, maltreatment or inflicting of unauthorized punishment on convict.
- Section 14-11-10 Injury to or destruction of state property, etc., by convict or prisoner.
- Section 14-11-11 Unlawful act by three or more convicts or prisoners acting in concert.
- Section 14-11-2 Illegal detention, imprisonment or working of convict after termination of sentence.
- Section 14-11-3 Failure of witness to appear or testify on management and treatment of convicts.
- Section 14-11-30 Definitions.
- Section 14-11-31 Prohibited acts.
- Section 14-11-32 Construction with other laws.
- Section 14-11-4 Failure of duty or violation of law by guard, etc., of convicts generally.
- Section 14-11-5 Noncompliance by officer, etc., with sentence of solitary confinement.
- Section 14-11-9 Trespassing about prisons.
- Chapter 12 — SCHOOLS AT CORRECTIONAL UNITS.
- Section 14-12-1 Conduct of study as to establishment and operation of schools at units of Board of Corrections; establishment and operation of schools.
- Section 14-12-2 Determination of professional units and operating expenses to be provided, qualifications and salaries of teachers and minimum number of hours of weekly student attendance.
- Section 14-12-3 Persons deemed eligible to attend schools.
- Section 14-12-4 Payment of costs of operating schools; preparation and consideration of annual estimate of costs.
- Chapter 13 — INTERSTATE CORRECTIONS COMPACT.
- Chapter 14 — ALABAMA MEDICAL FURLOUGH ACT.
- Section 14-14-1 Short title. THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2008 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2008.
- Section 14-14-2 Definitions.
- Section 14-14-3 Eligibility for furlough.
- Section 14-14-4 Establishment of furlough program.
- Section 14-14-5 Medical release application; eligibility factors; notice; determination.
- Section 14-14-6 Review.
- Section 14-14-7 Revocation of medical furlough.