Code of Alabama - Title 14: Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities - Chapter 4 - County Convicts

• Section 14-4-1 Applicability of laws and rules pertaining to state convicts
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-4-2 Superintendence and control of convicts
  Hard labor for the county shall be under the superintendence and control of the county commission, which shall determine in what manner and on what...
• Section 14-4-3 Maintenance of record of convicts by Board of Corrections; report to board by probate judge
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-4-4 Report of hard labor sentence to probate judge
  (a) All judicial officers shall, immediately upon the sentence of any person to hard labor for any county, report in writing to the judge of...
• Section 14-4-5 Record of convicts to be kept by probate judge
  The county commission shall provide a well-bound book to be kept in the office of the judge of probate subject, during office hours, to the...
• Section 14-4-6 Work on public roads - Rules and regulations
  Whenever the county commission of a county deems it to the best interest of the county to use the county convicts in building, repairing and...
• Section 14-4-7 Work on public roads - Female convicts
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-4-8 Work on public roads - Tobacco allowance and noon meals
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 14-4-9 Sentencing of convicts - How sentence served on two or more convictions; effect of convict's conduct thereon
  (a) When a convict is sentenced on two or more convictions, unless specifically ordered in the judgment entry that such sentences shall run concurrently, such...
• Section 14-4-10 Sentencing of convicts - Sentences for costs
  Whenever any convict is sentenced by the court and required to do hard labor for the county, an additional sentence not to exceed 10 months...
• Section 14-4-11 Superintendent of Public Works - Appointment
  Should the county commission determine to employ persons sentenced to hard labor for the county, or any part of them, in work on the public...
• Section 14-4-12 Superintendent of Public Works - Bond
  The Superintendent of Public Works shall also enter into bond payable to the county and approved by the judge of probate, with two good and...
• Section 14-4-13 Superintendent of Public Works - Duties
  The duties of the Superintendent of Public Works are: (1) Faithfully to obey and carry out the orders and directions of the county commission; (2)...
• Section 14-4-14 Oath of Superintendent of Public Works and guards
  The Superintendent of Public Works and each person employed as a guard over convicts sentenced to hard labor for the county, before he enters upon...

Last modified: May 3, 2021