Code of Alabama - Title 14: Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities - Chapter 3 - Prison System

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 14-3-1 Duties of Board of Corrections generally
  Repealed by Act 2015-70. §1(24), effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-2 State lands - Sale and purchase; appropriations for purchase
  (a) The Board of Corrections may sell any, or all, of the lands now used by the state in working convicts for cash or on...
• Section 14-3-3 State lands - Improvements
  The Board of Corrections may cause to be made such improvement on any of the land owned by the state as may tend to the...
• Section 14-3-4 State lands - Renting out
  Such of the lands owned by the state as are not needed for the use of the prison system may be rented out by the...
• Section 14-3-5 Use of net income from convict labor
  Any part of the net income from the labor of state convicts may, with the approval of the Board of Corrections, be applied to permanent...
• Section 14-3-6 Official correspondence and public documents
  Repealed by Act 2015-70, §1(25), effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-7 Record of convicts and other books
  Repealed by Act 2015-70, §1(25), effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-8 Sentence card to be furnished each convict
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• 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
  (a) It shall be the duty of all employees of the Department of Corrections to report all violations of the law relating to prisons, correctional...
• Section 14-3-11 Transmission of reports to Legislature
  Repealed by Act 2015-70, §1(26), effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-12 Appointment of chaplains and assistant chaplains
  Chaplains shall be appointed by the Board of Corrections, which chaplains shall in turn appoint assistant chaplains with the approval of the board. The chaplains...
• Section 14-3-13 Officers and guards - Oath of office
  Every officer and guard shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take and subscribe before some officer authorized to administer oaths, the following...
• Section 14-3-14 Officers and guards - Powers of policemen
  Every officer and guard at any prison has the power of a policeman and may arrest any person who intrudes upon the premises or makes...
• Section 14-3-15 Officers and guards - Pursuit and arrest of escaped convicts
  Every officer and guard, regularly sworn, shall have power to pursue and arrest any escaped convict in any county of this state without a warrant....
• Section 14-3-16 Penalty for violation of chapter
  Any person who violates any provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than...
• Article 2 Penitentiary.
• Section 14-3-30 Temporary confinement of convict pending removal; inmate developing medical condition which requires treatment
  (a) When any convict is sentenced to the penitentiary, the judge of the court in which the sentence is rendered shall order the inmate to...
• Section 14-3-31 Imprisonment on commuted sentence
  The Board of Corrections must receive into the penitentiary, on the written order of the Governor, any convict whose sentence has been commuted, according to...
• Section 14-3-32 Federal prisoners
  The Board of Corrections must receive into the penitentiary all convicts sentenced to imprisonment therein by any court of the United States held in this...
• Section 14-3-33 Delivery of convict by sheriff
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-34 Detention of convict en route
  It is the duty of all jailers, on demand of the officer in charge of any convict being conveyed to the penitentiary, to receive and...
• Section 14-3-35 Information regarding convict; search of convict's baggage and person
  It is the duty of the Board of Corrections, upon the reception of any convict into the penitentiary, to take his height, name, age, complexion,...
• Section 14-3-36 Taking charge of convict's effects
  The officer in charge of any prison or camp must take in charge any property, money or other thing of value in the possession of...
• Section 14-3-37 Removal from penitentiary when judgment reversed
  When any judgment of conviction is reversed and the case remanded after the convict has been conveyed to the penitentiary, he may be removed to...
• Section 14-3-38 How sentences to be served on two or more convictions; effect of convict's conduct thereon
  (a) When a convict is sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary on two or more convictions, unless it is specifically ordered in the judgment entry...
• Section 14-3-39 Guards for female convicts
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-40 Separation of convicts - Male and female
  It shall be unlawful to chain together or to confine together in the same room or compartment male and female convicts.
• Section 14-3-41 Separation of convicts - Convicts suffering from tuberculosis
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-42 Removal of convicts - Insanity
  REPEALED IN THE 2015 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2015-70 EFFECTIVE APRIL 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-43 Removal of convicts - Disease or other urgent necessity
  The Board of Corrections may cause the convicts to be removed to such place of security within the state as they may deem expedient whenever...
• Section 14-3-44 Clothing of prisoners; feminine hygiene products
  (a) All prisoners must be clothed during the term of their imprisonment in a comfortable manner in coarse and cheap clothing made in a uniform...
• Section 14-3-45 Diet
  The diet of convicts in quantity and quality must be such as may be directed by the Board of Corrections, and shall be sound and
• Section 14-3-46 Bibles and other reading matter
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-47 Employment - Authorized; regulations; department authorized to establish posts; camps, etc., for labor, discipline, etc., programs; limitations
  (a) State inmates shall be employed at such labor, in such places and under such regulations within the state as may be determined by the...
• Section 14-3-48 Employment - Exemptions; holidays
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-49 Employment - Working for themselves
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-50 Confinement in unhealthy or unfit cells, etc
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-51 Punishment - Restrictions generally
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-52 Punishment - Cruel or excessive punishment; corporal punishment; records to be kept
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-53 Shackles and chains
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-54 Inquiry into management and treatment of convicts
  The Board of Corrections shall have authority to summon, swear and examine witnesses as to any matter concerning the management and treatment of convicts; and...
• Section 14-3-55 Comments on prison management in presence of convicts
  No officer or person holding any appointment, the duties of which are discharged in connection with the prison system, must say anything in relation to...
• Section 14-3-56 Commission of offense during incarceration - Confinement or bail
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-57 Commission of offense during incarceration - Evidence of conviction on trial
  On the trial of any convict for any offense committed within the penitentiary or other convict prison or convict camp, the fact of confinement in...
• Section 14-3-58 Notification and procedures upon escape of inmate; reward
  (a) This section shall be known as the "Joel Willmore Act." (b) Whenever an inmate escapes from a penal facility, as defined in subdivision (3)...
• Section 14-3-59 Posting of regulations and code provisions on escapes
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-3-60 Spirituous and intoxicating liquors
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Article 3 High Voltage Electrified Security Fence Systems.
• Section 14-3-70 Legislative intent
  It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the Department of Corrections to install high voltage electrified security fence systems at any medium or...
• Section 14-3-71 Department authorized to install high voltage electrified security fence systems
  The Department of Corrections may design and install high voltage electrified security fence systems at any medium or maximum security prison. At the time of...
• Section 14-3-72 Installation
  The installation of an electrified security fence shall be between double security fences, with the exception of those locations where a building or wall constitutes...
• Section 14-3-73 Liability of providers for injury or death as result of system
  A provider of electricity for the electric fence system authorized by this article or the providers of parts for construction of the system shall not...

Last modified: May 3, 2021