Code of Alabama - Title 14: Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities - Chapter 6 - Jails
- Article 1 General Provisions.
- Section 14-6-1 Legal custody and charge of jails and prisoners; appointment of jailer
The sheriff has the legal custody and charge of the jail in his or her county and all prisoners committed thereto, except in cases otherwise...
- Section 14-6-2 Delivery of jail, etc., upon death, etc., of sheriff
On the death, resignation, removal from office or expiration of term of office of any sheriff, or of any coroner acting as sheriff, the jail...
- Section 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...
- Section 14-6-4 Duty to receive and keep federal prisoners
The sheriff or jailer must, if the jail of the county is sufficient, receive into his custody any person committed under any criminal charge or...
- Section 14-6-5 Refusal to receive prisoner into custody
Any jailer or other officer who willfully refuses to receive into his custody any person lawfully committed thereto on any criminal charge or conviction must,...
- Section 14-6-6 Commitment to nearest sufficient jail to insure safekeeping
In all criminal cases, either before or after conviction, and in cases of contempt, if it is shown to the court, judge or committing magistrate...
- Section 14-6-7 Removal of prisoners - When made to nearest sufficient jail
If the jail of any county is destroyed, or becomes insufficient or unsafe, or any epidemic dangerous to life is prevalent in the vicinity or...
- Section 14-6-8 Removal of prisoners - Fire
When the county jail or any building contiguous thereto is on fire and there is reason to apprehend that the prisoners may be thereby injured...
- Section 14-6-9 Removal of prisoners - Ill health
When the life or health of any prisoner, who is not confined under process from any court of the United States, may be seriously endangered...
- Section 14-6-10 Removal of prisoners - Use of guards
(a) When it becomes necessary to remove any prisoner from the jail of one county to another, in any case by law provided, the sheriff,...
- Section 14-6-11 Summoning of guards to prevent escape
When the county jail is insecure or insufficient and there is reason to apprehend an escape, the sheriff has authority, and it is his duty,...
- Section 14-6-12 Commencement of imprisonment on second or subsequent conviction
When a convict is sentenced to confinement in the county jail on two or more convictions, the imprisonment on the second, and on each subsequent...
- Section 14-6-13 Separation of men and women
Men and women prisoners, except husband and wife, must not be kept in the same room or apartment.
- Section 14-6-14 Duty of sheriff to furnish list of confined prisoners to circuit court
It is the duty of the sheriff, on the first day of each session of the circuit court of his county, to make out and...
- Section 14-6-15 Commitment or discharge of prisoners - Duty of sheriff to report to clerk of circuit court
When a prisoner is committed to the county jail, it is the duty of the sheriff of such county, in person or by deputy, to...
- Section 14-6-16 Commitment or discharge of prisoners - Duty to file process or order
It is the duty of the sheriff or of the jailer under his direction to file in regular order and safely preserve the process or...
- Section 14-6-17 Furnishing of support to prisoners
Any person committed to jail may furnish his own support, under such precautions as may be adopted by the jailer to prevent escapes. The sheriff...
- Section 14-6-18 Furnishing of spirituous, etc., liquors
No person confined in jail must, on any pretext whatever, be furnished with or allowed to receive any spirituous, malt or vinous liquors except on...
- Section 14-6-19 Clothing, bedding, medical attention, and feminine hygiene products
The sheriff of a county shall provide to prisoners at the expense of the county, all of the following: (1) Necessary clothing and bedding. (2)...
- Section 14-6-20 Appointment of physicians; terms, compensation, and duties thereof
(a) The county commission in each county in this state may elect a physician, or as many physicians as in its discretion may be necessary,...
- Section 14-6-21 Allowing jail, etc., to become foul or unclean
Whoever, being a sheriff, jailer or other person having the care and custody of any jail, workhouse, prison or other lawful place of confinement, suffers...
- 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 default; disposition of costs
(a)(1) A court shall require a convicted defendant in a misdemeanor case to pay housing, maintenance and medical costs associated with the defendant's incarceration in...
- Article 2 Feeding of Prisoners.
- Section 14-6-40 Duty to feed prisoners
The sheriff of the county, except as otherwise provided by existing laws, in his or her official capacity, in person or by his or her...
- Section 14-6-41 Supervision
(a) It shall be the duty of the Board of Corrections to supervise, either in person or by deputy, the feeding of all prisoners in...
- Section 14-6-42 Payments for services; recordkeeping
(a) Food and the services for preparing food, serving food, and other services incident to the feeding of prisoners in the county jail shall be...
- Section 14-6-43 Allowance - Preparation and service, etc
REPEALED BY ACT 2019-133, § 2, EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2019.
- Section 14-6-47 Prisoner Feeding Fund; forms for records; disposition of funds
(a) The Prisoner Feeding Fund is established in the office of each sheriff. Except as provided in subsection (b), all monies received in the sheriff's...
- Section 14-6-48 Custodian of funds; violations
The sheriff shall be the custodian of all funds paid into the Prisoner Feeding Fund pursuant to Section 14-6-47, which funds shall be public funds...
- Section 14-6-50 Penalty for violation of article
Any member of a county commission, sheriff or deputy who violates any of the provisions of this article for which no specific penalty is provided...
- Section 14-6-51 Emergency Prisoner Feeding Fund
There is hereby established the Emergency Prisoner Feeding Fund into which there is automatically appropriated five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) each state fiscal year beginning...
- Article 3 Tubercular Prisoners.
- Article 4 Inspection of Jails and Sanitation Requirements Generally.
- Section 14-6-80 Cities of 10,000 or over embraced in article
The only town or city prisons embraced within the provisions of this article are such as are in towns or cities of 10,000 or more...
- Section 14-6-81 Duties of state agency
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-82 Authority to order jail, etc., put in proper condition
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-83 Power to condemn jails
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-84 Sheriffs, etc., to furnish information on request
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-85 Penalty for failure to provide information, etc
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-86 Formulation of rules and regulations
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-87 Ordering, etc., of alterations, etc
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-88 Ordering, etc., of removal of prisoners, etc
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-89 Ordering, etc., of return of prisoners, etc
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-90 Penalty for refusal to obey orders of board of corrections
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-91 Publication of reports, etc
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-92 Fumigating, cleansing and painting jails generally
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-93 Janitor service, bathing facilities, etc
The county commission or city council shall provide adequate janitor service for and shall enforce cleanliness in their respective jails, shall provide bathing facilities separate...
- Section 14-6-94 Prisoners to be compelled to bathe
The sheriff, chief of police, town marshal or other keepers of jails or prisons shall enforce cleanliness among the prisoners, and shall compel them to...
- Section 14-6-95 Jails, etc., to be kept clean, etc
The sheriff, chief of police, town marshal or other keepers of jails or prisons or the keeper or manager of the almshouse shall keep their...
- Section 14-6-96 Fumigation of jails, etc., where persons with infectious, etc., diseases confined
Any apartment of any jail, prison or almshouse in which any person affected with any infectious, contagious or communicable disease shall have been confined shall...
- Section 14-6-97 Duty of sheriff, etc., as to food
The sheriff, the chief of police or town marshal or the keeper or manager of the almshouse shall see that the food for the inmates...
- Section 14-6-98 Monthly report to Board of Corrections
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-99 Appointment of special coroner
In the event the Board of Corrections needs the service of a coroner and there is not a coroner in the county, the judge of...
- Section 14-6-100 Probate judge to furnish grand jury report to Board of Corrections
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-101 Notification of Board of Corrections as to alterations, etc
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-102 Special session of county commission
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-103 Size, etc., of jails, etc
Each county jail or town or city prison must be of sufficient size and strength to contain and keep securely the prisoners confined therein and...
- Section 14-6-104 Payment of expenses of maintenance, etc., of jails, etc
The expense incident to the construction, maintenance, sanitation, healthfulness and hygiene of each county jail and prison in this state shall be paid out of...
- Section 14-6-105 Deputies, watchmen, etc., for jails, etc
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-106 Inspection of prisons, convict camps, jails, etc. - Authorization
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-107 Inspection of prisons, convict camps, jails, etc. - Powers and effect of orders of Board of Corrections
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-108 Visiting of places outside the state by Board of Corrections
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
- Section 14-6-109 Penalty for violations of provisions of article for which no other penalty provided
Any member of the county commission, sheriff or other keeper of any jail or almshouse or the mayor, chief of police or marshal or member...
Last modified: May 3, 2021