Ala. Code § 14-11-2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Section 14-11-2
Section 14-11-2 Illegal Detention, Imprisonment or Working of Convict After Termination of Sentence
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-8-61 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-61
Section 14-8-61 Adoption of Rules, Regulations, and Policies Extending Limits of Confinement of Inmates Seeking Employment and Place of Residence
Status: in_force

In order to provide for the individual supervision and placement of an inmate in the community where the inmate will reside after release from a state correctional institution, the board is authorized to adopt rules, regulations and policies permitting the commissioner to extend the limits of confinement of an inmate where there is reasonable cause to believe the inmate will honor the trust placed in such inmate by authorizing such inmate, under prescribed conditions, to leave the confines of that place unaccompanied by custodial agents for a prescribed period of time to seek and secure employment and a place of residence in the community where the inmate will reside after the release from a state correctional institution.
Ala. Code § 14-5-36 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-36
Section 14-5-36 Work Incentive Credits; Refusal to Work or Comply with Standards
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-3-6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-6
Section 14-3-6 Official Correspondence and Public Documents
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70, §1(25), effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-1-8 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-8
Section 14-1-8 Functions and Duties - Generally
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-19 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-19
Section 14-6-19 Clothing, Bedding, Medical Attention, and Feminine Hygiene Products
Status: in_force

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) Necessary medicine and medical attention to those prisoners who are sick or injured, when they are unable to provide them for themselves.

(3) Feminine hygiene products to female prisoners, as soon as is practicable, upon request by the female prisoner.
Ala. Code § 14-6-81 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-81
Section 14-6-81 Duties of State Agency
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-10 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-10
Section 14-6-10 Removal of Prisoners - Use of Guards
Status: in_force

(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, or other officer having charge of such prisoner, has authority, and it is his duty, to summon such guards as may be necessary to prevent an escape.

(b) When prisoners are removed from the jail under the provisions of either Section 14-6-8 or 14-6-9, the sheriff or jailer has authority, and it is his duty, to summon such guards as may be necessary to insure their safekeeping.
Ala. Code § 14-6-80 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-80
Section 14-6-80 Cities of 10,000 or Over Embraced in Article
Status: in_force

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 population, according to the most recent federal census.
Ala. Code § 14-9-41 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-41
Section 14-9-41 Computation of Correctional Incentive Time Deductions; Reporting Requirements
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e), each prisoner who is convicted of any offense against the laws of the State of Alabama and is confined, in execution of the judgment or sentence upon any conviction, in the penitentiary, or at hard labor for the county jail, or in any municipal jail for a definite or indeterminate term, whose record of conduct shows that he or she has faithfully observed the rules for a period of time to be specified by this article, may earn a deduction from the term of his or her sentence as follows:

(1) Thirty days for each 30 days actually served while the prisoner is classified as a Class I prisoner.

(2) Fifteen days for each 30 days actually served while the prisoner is a Class II prisoner.

(3) Five days for each 30 days actually served while the prisoner is a Class III prisoner.

(4) No correctional incentive time shall accrue during the period the prisoner is classified as a Class IV prisoner.

(b) Within 90 days after May 19, 1980, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections shall establish and publish in appropriate directives certain criteria not in conflict with this article for Class I, II, III, and IV prisoner classifications. The classifications shall encompass consideration of the prisoner’s behavior, discipline, and work practices and job responsibilities.

(c)(1) Class I includes prisoners who are considered to be trustworthy in every respect and who, by virtue of their work habits, conduct, and attitude of cooperation have proven their trustworthiness. An example of a Class I inmate would be one who could work without constant supervision by a security officer.

(2) Class II includes prisoners whose jobs will be under the supervision of a correctional employee at all times. Any inmate shall remain in this classification for a minimum period of 12 months before being eligible for Class I.

(3) Class III includes prisoners with special assignments. They may not receive any of the privileges of Class I and Class II prisoners. A prisoner shall remain in this classification for a minimum period of six months before being eligible for Class II.

(4) Class IV includes prisoners not yet classified , including all incoming prisoners, prisoners who are able to work and refuse, prisoners who commit disciplinary infractions that do not warrant a higher classification, and prisoners who do not abide by the rules of the institution. Prisoners who are classified in this earning class receive no correctional incentive time. This class is generally referred to as “flat time” or “day-for-day.” A prisoner shall remain in this classification for a minimum period of three months before being eligible for Class III.

(5) No prisoner may reach any class without first having gone through and meeting the requirements of all lower classifications.

(d) As a prisoner gains a higher classification status he or she shall not be granted retroactive correctional incentive time based on the higher classification he or she has reached, but shall only be granted correctional incentive time based on the classification in which he or she was serving at the time the correctional incentive time was earned. Nothing in this article authorizes a prisoner to receive correctional incentive time based on the highest classification he or she attains for any period of time in which he or she was serving in a lower classification or from the date of his or her sentence.

(e)(1) No prisoner may receive correctional incentive time under any of the following circumstances:

a. He or she has been convicted of a Class A felony.

b. He or she has been convicted of any crime that caused the death of another person by means of a deadly weapon, as defined in Section 13A-1-2.

c. He or she has been sentenced to life, sentenced to death, or has received a sentence for more than 15 years.

d. He or she has been convicted of a sex offense involving a child , as defined in Section 15-20A-4.

(2)a. No prisoner may be placed in Class I under any of the following circumstances:

1. He or she has been convicted of an assault where the victims of the assault suffered the permanent loss or use or permanent partial loss or use of any bodily organ or appendage.

2. He or she has been convicted of a crime involving the perpetration of sexual abuse upon the person of a child under the age of 17 years.

3. He or she has been convicted of a Class B felony that is a violent offense, as defined in Section 12-25-32.

b. The court sentencing a person shall note on the transcript accompanying the prisoner that he or she has been sentenced to a crime that forbids his or her being classified as a Class I prisoner.

(f)(1) If, during the term of imprisonment, a prisoner commits an offense or violates a rule of the Department of Corrections, all or any part of his or her correctional incentive time accrued pursuant to this section shall be forfeited.

(2) a. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections may restore any portion of the correctional incentive time that has been forfeited by a prisoner for violating any existing law or department rule or regulation , as the commissioner deems proper, upon recommendation and evidence provided by the warden in charge.

b. This subdivision shall not apply to prisoners who commit or attempt to commit violations provided in subdivision (3).

(3) If, during the term of imprisonment, a prisoner commits or attempts to commit by any overt act toward the commission of any of the following violations, as defined by the department’s Administrative Regulation Number 403 as of January 1, 2023, he or she may no longer receive correctional incentive time for the term of imprisonment and shall forfeit all of his or her correctional incentive time accrued pursuant to this section:

a. Homicide.

b. Escape.

c. Assault that causes serious physical injury, excluding when used in self-defense, as determined by the department.

d. Seizing or holding a hostage in any manner.

e. Sexual assault.

f. Inciting a riot.

g. Rioting, excluding civil protests.

h. Fighting with a weapon resulting in serious physical injury.

i. Arson.

(g)(1) For prisoners receiving correctional incentive time, the term of supervision required pursuant to Section 15-22-26.2, shall not further reduce the term of imprisonment except where the minimum required term of supervision would exceed the correctional incentive time accrued.

(2) When a prisoner is serving two or more terms of imprisonment and the sentences run consecutively, all sentences shall be combined for the purpose of computing deductions for correctional incentive time and release date. The actual deduction from sentence for correctional incentive time provided by this section shall apply only to sentences to be served.

(3) When a prisoner is serving two or more sentences that run concurrently, the sentence that results in the longer period of incarceration shall be used for the purpose of computing deductions for correctional incentive time and release date. When computing the deductions allowed in this section on indeterminate sentences, the maximum sentence shall be the basis for the computation.

(h) This section shall be administered by the chief administrative officer of the penal institution as it applies to prisoners in any state penal institution, by the sheriff of the county as it applies to prisoners in any county jail, and by the chief of police as it applies to prisoners in any municipal jail.

(i) Deductions for good behavior, work habits and cooperation, or good conduct shall be interpreted to give authorized correctional incentive time retroactively to those offenders convicted of crimes committed after May 19, 1980, except those convicted of crimes of the unlawful sale or distribution of controlled substances as enumerated in Article 5 of Chapter 12 of Title 13A and for any sex offenses as enumerated in Articles 4 and 4A of Chapter 6 of Title 13A. The commissioner shall have the prison records of all prisoners who become eligible under this article reviewed and shall disqualify any prisoner from being awarded correctional incentive time under this article at his or her discretion.

(j) The Department of Corrections, by February 15 of each year, shall submit to the Legislature, the Governor, and the Attorney General a report including all of the following:

(1) The number of prisoners in each classification.

(2) The number of prisoners who changed classifications.

(3) The number of prisoners who had their correctional incentive time forfeited based on a high level violation, as provided by department guidelines, including the specific kind and number of the high level violation for each prisoner.

(4) The number of prisoners who had their correction incentive time forfeited based on a violation of subdivision (f)(3), including the cumulative number of days that were forfeited.

(k) All amendatory language added to this section by Act 2023-22 regarding the calculation as to correctional incentive time, added pursuant to the act shall be applied prospectively, and any adjustment to that time shall only apply to violations committed after April 14, 2023. Act 2023-22 shall supersede any policy, procedure, or rule in place on April 14, 2023, with exception of the Department of Corrections’ Administrative Regulation Number 403.
Ala. Code § 14-13-2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 13 / Section 14-13-2
Section 14-13-2 Adoption and Text of Interstate Corrections Compact
Status: in_force

The Interstate Corrections Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally joining therein, in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows:

The party states, desiring by common action to fully utilize and improve their institutional facilities and provide adequate programs for the confinement, treatment, and rehabilitation of various types of offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party states to provide such facilities and programs on a basis of cooperation with one another, thereby serving the best interests of such offenders and of society and effecting economies in capital expenditures and operational costs. The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual development and execution of such programs of cooperation for the confinement, treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with the most economical use of human and material resources.

As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1) “State” means a state of the United States, the United States of America, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;

(2) “Sending state” means a state party to this compact in which conviction or court commitment was had;

(3) “Receiving state” means a state party to this compact to which an inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had;

(4) “Inmate” means a male or female offender who is committed, under sentence to or confined in, a penal or correctional institution;

(5) “Institution” means any penal or correctional facility, including but not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which inmates defined in (4) above may lawfully be confined.

(a) Each party state may make one or more contracts with any one or more of the other party states for the confinement of inmates on behalf of a sending state in institutions situated within receiving states. Any such contract shall provide for:

(1) Its duration;

(2) Payments to be made to the receiving state by the sending state for inmate maintenance, extraordinary medical and dental expenses, and any participation in or receipt by inmates of rehabilitative or correctional services, facilities, programs or treatment not reasonably included as part of normal maintenance.

(3) Participation in programs of inmate employment, if any; the disposition or crediting of any payments received by inmates on account thereof; and the crediting of proceeds from or disposal of any products resulting therefrom;

(4) Delivery and retaking of inmates;

(5) Such other matters as may be necessary and appropriate to fix the obligations, responsibilities and rights of the sending and receiving states.

(b) The terms and provisions of this compact entered into by the authority of or pursuant thereto, and nothing in any such contract shall be inconsistent therewith.

(a) Whenever the duly constituted authorities in a state party to this compact, and which has entered into a contract pursuant to Article III, shall decide that confinement in, or transfer of an inmate to, an institution within the territory of another party state is necessary or desirable in order to provide adequate quarters and care or an appropriate program of rehabilitation or treatment, said officials may direct that the confinement be within an institution within the territory of said other party state, the receiving state to act in that regard solely as agent for the sending state.

(b) The appropriate officials of any state party to this compact shall have access, at all reasonable times, to any institution in which it has a contractual right to confine inmates for the purpose of inspecting the facilities thereof and visiting such of its inmates as may be confined in the institution.

(c) Inmates confined in an institution pursuant to the terms of this compact shall at all times be subject to the jurisdiction of the sending state and may at any time be removed therefrom for transfer to a prison or other institution within the sending state, for transfer to another institution in which the sending state may have a contractual or other right to confine inmates, for release on probation or parole, for discharge, or for any other purpose permitted by the laws of the sending state, provided, that the sending state shall continue to be obligated to such payments as may be pursuant to the terms of any contract entered into under the terms of Article III.

(d) Each receiving state shall provide regular reports to each sending state on the inmates of that sending state in institutions pursuant to this compact including a conduct record of each inmate and certify said record to the official designated by the sending state, in order that each inmate may have official review of his or her record in determining and altering the disposition of said inmate in accordance with the law which may obtain in the sending state and in order that the same may be a source of information for the sending state.

(e) All inmates who may be confined in an institution pursuant to the provisions of this compact shall be treated in a reasonable and humane manner and shall be treated equally with such similar inmates of the receiving state as may be confined in the same institution. The fact of confinement in a receiving state shall not deprive any inmate so confined of any legal rights which said inmate would have had if in an appropriate institution of the sending state.

(f) Any hearing or hearings to which an inmate confined pursuant to this compact may be entitled by the laws of the sending state may be had before the appropriate authorities of the sending state, or of the receiving state if authorized by the sending state. The receiving state shall provide adequate facilities for such hearings as may be conducted by the appropriate officials of a sending state. In the event such hearing or hearings are had before officials of the receiving state, the governing law shall be that of the sending state and a record of the hearing or hearings as prescribed by the sending state shall be made. Said record together with any recommendations of the hearing officials shall be transmitted forthwith to the official or officials before whom the hearing would have been had if it had taken place in the sending state. In any and all proceedings had pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision, the officials of the receiving state shall act solely as agents of the sending state and no final determination shall be made in any matter except by the appropriate officials of the sending state.

(g) Any inmate confined pursuant to this compact shall be released within the territory of the sending state unless the inmate, and the sending and receiving states, shall agree upon release in some other place. The sending state shall bear the cost of such return to its territory.

(h) Any inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact shall have any and all rights to participate in and derive any benefits or incur or be relieved of any obligations, or have such obligations modified or his status changed on account of any action or proceedings in which he could have participated if confined in any appropriate institution of the sending state located within such state.

(i) The parent, guardian, trustee, or other person or persons entitled under the laws of the sending state to act for, advise, or otherwise function with respect to any inmate shall not be deprived of or restricted in his exercise of any power in respect of any inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact.

(a) Any decisions of the sending state in respect of any matter over which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall be conclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state, but if at the time the sending state seeks to remove an inmate from an institution in the receiving state there is pending against the inmate within such state any criminal charge or if the inmate is formally accused of having committed within such state a criminal offense, the inmate shall not be returned without the consent of the receiving state until discharged from prosecution or other form of proceeding, imprisonment or detention for such offense. The duly accredited officers of the sending state shall be permitted to transport inmates pursuant to this compact through any and all states’ party to this compact without interference.

(b) An inmate who escapes from an institution in which he is confined pursuant to this compact shall be deemed a fugitive from the sending state and from the state in which the institution is situated. In the case of an escape to a jurisdiction other than the sending or receiving state, the responsibility for institution of extradition or rendition proceedings shall be that of the sending state, but nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent or affect the activities of officers and agencies of any jurisdiction directed toward the apprehension and return of an escapee.

Any state party to this compact may accept federal aid for use in connection with any institution or program, the use of which is or may be affected by this compact or any contract pursuant hereto and any inmate in a receiving state pursuant to this compact may participate in any such federally aided program or activity for which the sending or the receiving state have made contractual provision; provided, that if such program or activity is not part of the customary correctional regimen the express consent of the appropriate official of the sending state shall be required therefrom.

This compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said states upon similar action by such state.

This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate officials of all other party states. An actual withdrawal shall not take effect until one year after the notices provided in said statute have been sent. Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state from its obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. Before the effective date of withdrawal, a withdrawing state shall remove to its territory, at its own expense, such inmates as it may have confined pursuant to the provisions of this compact.

Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate or impair any agreement or other arrangement which a party state may have with a nonparty state for the confinement, rehabilitation or treatment of inmates nor to repeal any other laws of a party state authorizing the making of cooperative institutional arrangements.

The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.
Ala. Code § 14-6-88 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-88
Section 14-6-88 Ordering, Etc., of Removal of Prisoners, Etc
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-1-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-4
Section 14-1-4 Officers and Employees Generally
Status: in_force

(a) The department may appoint officers and employees as it may require for the performance of its duties and shall fix and determine their qualifications, duties, and authority. The employees of the department, except the commissioner, the deputy commissioners, appointed administrators, and other exempt positions allowed by law shall be subject to the law with respect to the method, selection, classification, and compensation of state employees on the basis of merit.

(b) The department shall not rescind any employee position with the classification of “correctional officer” and replace him or her with an employee of a lower classification or pay.

(c) The rules of the State Personnel Department shall not be applicable to the appointment, tenure, or compensation of physicians, surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists, dentists, or allied professional supportive personnel employed by the department.

(d) The deputy commissioners and all other appointed personnel shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner .
Ala. Code § 14-6-109 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-109
Section 14-6-109 Penalty for Violations of Provisions of Article for Which No Other Penalty Provided
Status: in_force

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 of a city council or other governing board or body who violates any of the provisions of this article for which no specific penalty is provided shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 or imprisoned in the county jail for 30 days or both.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-5
Section 14-6A-5 Governmental Entity
Status: in_force

The regional jail authority is a governmental entity as defined by subdivision (1) of Section 11-93-1 and the services it performs are hereby declared to be governmental functions. The employees of the authority shall be entitled to participate in the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama. Neither the regional jail authority nor any member of its board of directors shall be liable for any tort, whether negligent or willful, committed by any director, agent, servant, or employee of the authority in the construction, maintenance, or operation of any regional jail facility. Neither a county participating in the regional jail authority nor its sheriff shall be jointly or severally liable in tort or otherwise for the actions or inactions of the authority, any member of its board of directors, or any agent, servant, or employee of the authority.
Ala. Code § 14-8-36 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-36
Section 14-8-36 Employment of Inmates by State or Counties Generally; Wages to Be Paid Inmates Employed Thereby
Status: in_force

(a) The State of Alabama and any county are hereby authorized to become employers of work release inmates under this article, and as such may employ inmates to perform any state or county job available, including, but not limited to, road or bridge work, garbage collection and school grounds maintenance.

(b) Inmates employed under this section shall be paid the federally established minimum wage.
Ala. Code § 14-6-1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-1
Section 14-6-1 Legal Custody and Charge of Jails and Prisoners; Appointment of Jailer
Status: in_force

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 provided by law. The sheriff may employ persons to carry out his or her duty to operate the jail and supervise the inmates housed therein for whose acts he or she is civilly responsible. Persons so employed by the sheriff shall be acting for and under the direction and supervision of the sheriff and shall be entitled to the same immunities and legal protections granted to the sheriff under the general laws and the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, as long as such conduct is deemed conduct performed within a law enforcement officer’s discretionary authority as defined in Section 6-5-338.1.
Ala. Code § 14-12-2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 12 / Section 14-12-2
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
Status: in_force

(a) A formula for the determination of professional units and other operating expenses, based upon eligible students, shall be developed by the State Department of Education. An eligible student under this subsection shall be a person who has not graduated from an accredited high school and who is able to benefit from the instructional programs offered.

The total number of professional units provided shall be the sum total of units necessary for classroom teachers, vocational teachers, librarians, teachers of exceptional students, supervisors, counselors, principals and a director. Any funds provided for such units where such units are not employed shall revert to the Alabama Special Educational Trust Fund.

(b) The qualifications of teachers shall be determined by the State Department of Education and shall be similar to the qualifications of teachers in the regular schools.

(c) The State Department of Education in cooperation with the Board of Corrections shall determine the minimum number of hours a student must be in attendance each week.

(d) The minimum monthly salary rates for classroom teachers and special positions shall be in accordance with the current minimum salary schedule in effect in the regular public schools.

(e) Vocational teachers, counselors, supervisors and special education units shall be provided in addition to classroom teacher units in accordance with the policy of the State Board of Education for the allocation of such units in the regular public schools and in accordance with the ability of the Board of Corrections to provide adequate facilities for such programs and the ability of the students enrolled to benefit from such instruction. The facilities of the technical schools at Atmore and Speigner shall be used to the extent practicable.
Ala. Code § 14-3-37 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-37
Section 14-3-37 Removal from Penitentiary When Judgment Reversed
Status: in_force

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 the county in which he was tried by the sheriff of that county, or his deputy, in the same manner in which he was conveyed to the penitentiary; and all the provisions of this code in respect to authority, duty and compensation of officers and escapes, or attempts to escape, by convicts are applicable to such removal.
Ala. Code § 14-5-8 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-8
Section 14-5-8 Agreement to Use of Convict Labor Under Sections 14-5-6, 14-5-7 and 14-11-2 - County Convicts
Status: in_force

The use of county convict labor under the provisions of Sections 14-5-6, 14-5-7 and 14-11-2 shall be such uses as may be agreed to by the county commissions in counties that may use convict labor; provided, that such convict labor shall not be used for such purposes unless, after entering an agreement for such use of convict labor on the minutes of the county commission, the agreement with the proposed plan for its operation shall be submitted to the State Health Officer for review as to whether the same may conflict with the public health statutes or rules or regulations of the State Board of Health, and for his opinion on what may be accomplished that will or may contribute to the public health or sanitation. The conclusion as to such finding shall be signed by the said State Health Officer and be filed with the county commission of such county.
Ala. Code § 14-8-31 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-31
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 in Programs; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations Governing Participation by State Inmates in Programs
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby authorized in each county of the state a work release program for county inmates and state inmates in custody of the county. Such program may be established at the option of the county in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(b) The State Board of Corrections is authorized to contract with the county concerning the costs of maintenance of state inmates participating in the program.

(c) The board may also promulgate rules and regulations concerning state inmates participating in the program the observance of which may be a condition to such participation.
Ala. Code § 14-3-13 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-13
Section 14-3-13 Correctional Officers - Oath of Office
Status: in_force

Every correctional officer, before performing the duties of his or her office, shall take and subscribe before an officer authorized to administer oaths, the following oath:

“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alabama, so long as I remain a citizen thereof; that I will faithfully execute and discharge all the duties required of me as _____ (designating the office), and observe all the regulations of the department for the care and rehabilitation of prisoners, so far as concerns my office; and will, in no case, ill treat or abuse any prisoner under my charge or control, nor inflict upon him or her any other or greater punishment than may be prescribed by the law or the regulations of the department. So help me God.”
Ala. Code § 14-5-11 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-11
Section 14-5-11 Employment of State or County Inmates by Certain Persons Prohibited; Penalty
Status: in_force

(a) No state or county inmate shall be employed by or do any work for:

(1) Any district attorney, any judge, or any sheriff; or

(2) Any parent, sibling, or child of any district attorney, any judge, or any sheriff; or

(3) Any business one-third or more of which is owned by any district attorney, any judge, or any sheriff, or any parent, sibling, or child of any district attorney, any judge, or any sheriff.

(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any state or county inmate from being employed by or doing work for the state or any political subdivision of the state or for any governmental agency or entity.

(c) Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided by law.
Ala. Code § 14-6-17 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-17
Section 14-6-17 Furnishing of Support to Prisoners
Status: in_force

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 must furnish support to those prisoners who do not provide it for themselves.
Ala. Code § 14-7-22.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-22.1
Section 14-7-22.1 Prison Industry Programs
Status: in_force

(a) In order to implement work-oriented rehabilitation programs in an actual private enterprise work environment, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections may contract or enter into agreements with private individuals, enterprises, partnerships, or corporations to develop joint plants, businesses, factories, or commercial enterprises. The contracts or agreements shall be limited to those in which the department contracts or agrees to furnish inmate labor for the manufacture of articles or products or to furnish inmate labor for the provision of service in facilities furnished by the department or the party or parties and enter into contracts or agreements with the department. The facilities shall be on property owned or operated by the department or at any prison facility housing inmates sentenced to the department.

(b) An inmate may participate in the program established pursuant to this section only on a voluntary basis and only after he or she has been informed of the conditions of his or her employment.

(c) Inmates participating in programs where articles or products are manufactured in part or in whole shall earn not less than the prevailing wage for work of a similar nature in the private sector. The earnings of an inmate authorized to work at paid employment pursuant to this section or Section 14-7-7 or Section 14-7-22 shall be paid directly to the department. The department shall adopt rules concerning the disbursement of any earnings of the inmates involved in a program established pursuant to this section, including the payment of any court ordered restitution. The department shall withhold from an inmate’s earnings the costs incident to the inmate’s confinement, as the department shall deem appropriate and reasonable, and the moneys collected shall be deposited into the Department of Corrections Special Revenue Fund. In no event shall the withheld earnings exceed 40 percent of the gross earnings of the inmate. The department shall also comply with any order from a court of proper jurisdiction that directs the withholding of funds from an inmate’s personal funds, not to exceed 40 percent of the earnings of the inmate. After all expenses have been deducted by the department, the remainder of the inmate’s earnings shall be credited to his or her account with the department. All such manufacturing programs shall be operated in compliance with the Federal Prison Industries Enhancement Act codified at 18 U.S.C. §1761(c).

(d) An inmate participating in the program shall not be considered an employee of the state and shall not be entitled to employee benefits.

(e) All products, goods, or items produced by work done under the auspices of contracts or agreements with the Department of Corrections shall be marketed by the party or parties that entered into the contract or agreement. In no instance may the department market these products, goods, or items.

(f) The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections may enter into contracts necessary to implement the prison industry program. The contractual agreements may include rental or lease agreements for state buildings or sale or lease of land on the grounds at an institution or a facility of the department and provide for reasonable access to and egress from the building to establish and operate a facility. Rental or lease agreements shall be exempt from the provisions and requirements of Chapter 16 of Title 41, and other competitive bid laws.

(g) The Department of Corrections and the party or parties that enter into contracts or agreements under this section or Section 14-7-7 or Section 14-7-22 shall be exempt from the provisions or penalties of Sections 14-5-2 and 14-7-22.

(h) Nothing in this section or Section 14-7-7 or Section 14-7-22 shall cause a reduction in the number of prisoners provided for training and work programs conducted on the campus of and by a two-year college and all such programs shall be provided a satisfactory number of prisoners for their prison education programs and all such prison education appropriations shall continue to fund such programs within the two-year college system as set forth in the Education Trust Fund budget.

(i)(1) The Department of Corrections shall annually submit a report to the Joint Legislative Prison Committee as to the types or kinds of prison industries occurring under this section or Section 14-7-7 or Section 14-7-22.

(2) All contracts issued pursuant to this section or Section 14-7-7 or Section 14-7-22 shall be reviewed by the Permanent Legislative Oversight Contract Review Committee.
Ala. Code § 14-14-1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-14-1
Section 14-14-1 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known as the Alabama Medical Furlough Act.
Ala. Code § 14-3-46 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-46
Section 14-3-46 Bibles and Other Reading Matter
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-1-20 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-20
Section 14-1-20 Hiring and Retention of Correctional Officers
Status: in_force

(a) The Alabama Department of Corrections may establish a program designed to increase correctional officer hiring and retention by offering bonuses or training incentives, or a combination of both, to employees in specified correction officer classifications for remaining employed by the department for consecutive terms of employment.

(b) The department may grant bonuses to employees of the department, to be paid incrementally, upon successful completion of certain training programs and upon the attainment of certain career milestones, provided the employee is an active employee of the department on the date the bonus payment is made, to be granted as follows:

(1)a. Correctional Officer bonuses shall be awarded as follows:

1. A one thousand five hundred dollar ($1,500) bonus for successful completion of an Alabama Department of Corrections Training Academy class or successful completion of an Alabama Peace Officers’ and Standards Training Commission law enforcement refresher class.

2. A one thousand five hundred dollar ($1,500) bonus for attainment of status as a Correctional Officer.

3. A one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollar ($1,875) bonus for attainment of status as a Correctional Officer Senior upon creation of the position by the State Personnel Board.

4. A two thousand six hundred twenty-five dollar ($2,625) bonus upon the one-year anniversary of the attainment of status as a Correctional Officer Senior upon creation of the position by the State Personnel Board.

b. Other Correctional Officers of the Department of Corrections may receive promotional or retention bonuses subject to the limitation in subdivision (3), upon recommendation of the Department of Corrections and approval by the State Personnel Department.

(2) The bonuses described in subdivision (1) shall be paid by the department to new appointments, transfers, and promotions as provided in subdivision (1) beginning on May 29, 2019, and continuing through December 31, 2022. No bonus payment pursuant to this section may be made by the department after December 31, 2025. If the staffing targets of the department are achieved prior to December 31, 2022, the department may discontinue the bonus program for any further appointments.

(3) In no event shall the total bonus payments under this section total more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per employee.

(4) In no event shall any employee of the department who separates from the department after April 1, 2019, be eligible for any incentives under this program.

(c) No bonus payments received by an employee of the Department of Corrections under this section shall be used in the computation of retirement or other benefits.

(d) The department shall report annually on the first legislative day of the Regular Session of the Legislature to the Chairs of the House Ways and Means, General Fund Committee, the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation, General Fund, and the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee on the number and amount of bonuses paid under the program.

(e) It is not the intention of this section to make appropriations, but the program established by the department is subject to the appropriations made for the department in the annual appropriations act.
Ala. Code § 14-8-44 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-44
Section 14-8-44 Construction of Article Generally; Effect of Article Upon Existing Programs Operating or Functioning Pursuant to Local Law
Status: in_force

The provisions of this article are cumulative and shall not be construed to repeal or supersede any laws not directly inconsistent herewith.

It is specifically provided that any work release program in operation or functioning pursuant to any local law on August 24, 1976, may be continued pursuant to such local law and shall not be affected in any way by this article. The county conducting such program may, however, at its option convert the program to a program to be governed by this article.
Ala. Code § 14-6-108 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-108
Section 14-6-108 Visiting of Places Outside the State by Board of Corrections
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-1-1.3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-1.3
Section 14-1-1.3 Commissioner of Corrections - Appointment; Salary; Duties
Status: in_force

The department shall be headed by and under the independent direction, supervision and control of a Commissioner of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as “the commissioner,” who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The Governor is hereby authorized to set the salary of the commissioner at the same level of any cabinet officer or at a reasonable level in excess thereof. The commissioner, without additional compensation, shall also serve as and exercise the authority, functions and duties of the Commissioner of Corrections as that position otherwise exists under the laws of Alabama, it being the intention of this section that there be but one Commissioner of Corrections.
Ala. Code § 14-4-8 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-8
Section 14-4-8 Work on Public Roads - Tobacco Allowance and Noon Meals
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-4-9 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-9
Section 14-4-9 Sentencing of Convicts - How Sentence Served on Two or More Convictions; Effect of Convict’s Conduct Thereon
Status: in_force

(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 sentences shall be cumulative and such terms and imprisonments shall be served consecutively, the first term thereof beginning to run from the date such convict is received at the county jail or other place of confinement for the service of his sentences, the second and subsequent terms each beginning on the expiration of the preceding term. When it is specifically ordered in the judgment entry that sentences shall run concurrently, such sentences shall run from the date on which such convict is received at the county jail or other place of confinement for service of the sentence. However no person shall be sentenced to hard labor for the county so that the aggregate of the sentences on two or more convictions shall exceed for the crime two years and for costs 15 months.

(b) In case the prison record of a convict serving two or more sentences consecutively is good, he shall be discharged at the expiration of the last term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced less any deductions accorded him pursuant to Sections 14-9-1 through 14-9-3. In case the record of a prisoner during his term shall not have been good, the Board of Corrections, at its discretion, may revoke any or all of the deductions given under the above mentioned sections, and any amendments thereof, whether such convict is serving his terms of imprisonment concurrently or consecutively.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-1
Section 14-6A-1 Establishing or Joining Regional Jail Authority
Status: in_force

(a) The county commissions of two or more counties may, by resolution and with the initial consent of their respective sheriffs, establish a regional jail authority for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating a regional jail facility for the counties participating in the regional jail authority.

(b) A county which desires to join an existing regional jail authority may, by resolution and with the initial consent of the sheriff, request participation in the existing regional jail authority. The regional jail authority may by resolution approve the requesting county’s participation in the authority, and if approved, the county shall participate with all rights and obligations of the original counties participating in the regional jail authority.
Ala. Code § 14-8-40 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-40
Section 14-8-40 Inmates Not Deemed State Agents, Etc.; Cause of Action Against County, Etc
Status: in_force

No inmate granted privileges under the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be an agent, employee, or involuntary servant of the department, state, or county while involved in the free community, while under the direction, control, and supervision of the inmate’s employer, or while going to and from employment or other specified areas.

Any inmate participating in a work release program authorized by this chapter or otherwise working outside the jail or a correctional facility shall have no cause of action against the county or a community correction agency, or an employee thereof, related to such activities, unless the county or community corrections agency, or employee thereof, is willfully negligent in carrying out their responsibilities.
Ala. Code § 14-2-14 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-14
Section 14-2-14 Bonds - Specifications; Redemption; Precedence
Status: in_force

Any bonds of the authority may be executed and delivered by it at any time and from time to time, shall be in such form and denominations and of such tenor and maturities, shall bear such rate or rates of interest payable and evidenced in such manner, may contain provisions for redemption prior to maturity and may contain other provisions not inconsistent with this section, all as may be provided by the resolution of the authority whereunder such bonds are authorized to be issued; provided, that no bond of the authority shall have a specified maturity date later than 30 years after its date.
Ala. Code § 14-3-8 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-8
Section 14-3-8 Sentence Card to Be Furnished Each Convict
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-9-63 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-63
Section 14-9-63 Administration of Education Incentive Time
Status: in_force

The Department of Corrections shall adopt rules regarding the administration of education incentive time; provided, however, the department may not propose rules until the department has consulted with the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, created pursuant to Section 29-2-20. The rules shall include, but are not limited to, specifying the maximum amount of time a sentence may be reduced based on the successful completion of a qualifying program, determining the incremental credit awarded depending on the program complexity and length, establishing a revocation provision for disciplinary infractions, and adopting any additional restrictions at the discretion of the commissioner. The final rules shall be certified to the Legislative Services Agency no later than March 1, 2022.
Ala. Code § 14-2-8 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-8
Section 14-2-8 Powers - Generally
Status: in_force

The authority shall have the following powers among others specified in this chapter:

(1) To have succession in its corporate name until the principal of and interest on all bonds issued by it shall have been fully paid and until it shall have been dissolved as provided in this chapter;

(2) To maintain actions and have actions maintained against it and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties thereof;

(3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter such seal at pleasure;

(4) To establish a fiscal year;

(5) To acquire and hold title to real and personal property and to sell, convey, mortgage, or lease the same as provided in this chapter;

(6) To provide for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and improvement of facilities and for the procurement of sites and equipment for such facilities and for the lease thereof;

(7) To lease facilities to the state, the department, and any other agency or instrumentality of the state;

(8) To anticipate by the issuance of its bonds as limited in this chapter the receipt of the rent and revenues from such facilities; and from the net rent and sale proceeds of the Kilby property;

(9) As security for the payment of the principal of and interest on its bonds, to enter into any lawful covenant, to grant mortgages upon and security interests in its facilities and to pledge the rents and revenues from such facilities; and from the net rent and sale proceeds of the Kilby property;

(10) To invest as provided in this chapter the proceeds from the sale of its bonds pending need therefor; and

(11) To appoint and employ such attorneys, agents, and employees as the business of the authority may require, subject to the Merit System where applicable.
Ala. Code § 14-1-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-7
Section 14-1-7 Administrative Divisions; Chiefs of Divisions
Status: in_force

The board shall have the power to create within the board such divisions as may be necessary for its effective administration. Each division in the board shall be headed by and be under the direction, supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated as the chief of such division. All chiefs of divisions shall be appointed by the board. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, such chiefs of divisions shall take the constitutional oath of office. The salaries of such chiefs of divisions shall be fixed by the board, with the approval of the Governor, and shall be paid in the same manner and at the same time as the salaries of other state officers, but no one of such salaries shall exceed such amount as is provided by statute; except, that the salaries paid two physicians may not be in excess of such amount as is provided by statute. Each such officer shall devote his full time to his official duties and shall hold no other lucrative position while serving as such.
Ala. Code § 14-6-85 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-85
Section 14-6-85 Penalty for Failure to Provide Information, Etc
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-12 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-12
Section 14-6-12 Commencement of Imprisonment on Second or Subsequent Conviction
Status: in_force

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 conviction, must commence at the termination of the imprisonment on the preceding sentence.
Ala. Code § 14-6-50 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-50
Section 14-6-50 Penalty for Violation of Article
Status: in_force

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 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100.
Ala. Code § 14-6-62 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-62
Section 14-6-62 Payment of Expenses of Removal
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-3-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-4
Section 14-3-4 State Lands - Renting Out
Status: in_force

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 Board of Corrections.
Ala. Code § 14-5-6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-6
Section 14-5-6 County Convicts - Drains and Drainage Districts
Status: in_force

County commissions in all counties of this state may use county convict labor for use in the construction or maintenance of any drains or outlets for drains, for reopening of any filled or partly filled drains or for the construction or maintenance of any levees in connection with drains necessary, desirable or convenient for the full development, preservation and maintenance or use of any drains or drainage district established or now constructed or that may be hereafter established or constructed under the provisions of general laws relating to drainage districts.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-8 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-8
Section 14-6A-8 Obligations of Authority
Status: in_force

All obligations created or assumed and all bonds issued or assumed by the authority shall be solely and exclusively an obligation of the authority and shall not create an obligation or debt of any county nor count against the constitutional debt limit of a participating county. This section shall not be construed to release the original obligor from liability on any bond or other obligation assumed by the authority.
Ala. Code § 14-2-16 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-16
Section 14-2-16 Bonds - Sale
Status: in_force

Bonds of the authority may be sold at such price or prices and at such time or times as the authority may consider advantageous, at public sale, private sale, or via negotiation. Bonds of the authority sold by competitive bid must be sold, whether on sealed bids or at public auction, to the bidder whose bid reflects the lowest true interest cost to the authority for the bonds being sold; provided, that if no bid acceptable to the authority is received, it may reject all bids. The authority may fix the terms and conditions under which such sale may be held; provided, that such terms and conditions shall not conflict with any of the requirements of this chapter. The authority may pay out of the proceeds of the sale of its bonds all expenses, including capitalized interest during a period not to exceed three years from the date of issuance of such bonds, publication and printing charges, attorneys’ fees, and other expenses that the authority may deem necessary and advantageous in connection with the authorization, advertisement, sale, execution, and issuance of such bonds. Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (c)(2)b. and c. of Section 14-2-12, neither a public hearing nor consent of the State Department of Finance or any other department or agency of the state shall be a prerequisite to the issuance or sale of bonds by the authority.
Ala. Code § 14-1-1.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-1.1
Section 14-1-1.1 Department of Corrections - Creation, Duties, Responsibilities, Etc
Status: in_force

There is hereby created the Alabama Department of Corrections, hereinafter referred to as “the department” which shall have all of the duties, responsibilities, authority, power, assets, liabilities, property, funds, appropriations, contractual rights and obligations, property rights and personnel, whether accruing or vested, by operation or by law and which are not in conflict with this section and Sections 14-1-1.2 through 14-1-1.5 which, prior to the enactment of Sections 14-1-15 through 14-1-17, were vested in a Board of Corrections and which, by virtue of such statutes, vested in the Governor of the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 14-1-17 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-17
Section 14-1-17 Governor Authorized to Exercise Functions, Designate Administrator, Set Salary and Designate Duties
Status: in_force

All functions and duties of the department shall be exercised by the Governor, acting by himself or by and through such administrative divisions or such officers or employees or individuals as he may designate. The Governor is hereby further authorized to set the salary of such individual or individuals and make one such person responsible to him as administrator of the corrections institutions throughout this state. The Governor is further authorized to set the salary of such administrator at the same level of any cabinet officer or at a reasonable level in excess thereof. Any administrator shall have the authority and the duties which the Governor may designate and all of the power and authority incident to carrying out the functions and duties assigned.
Ala. Code § 14-2-28 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-28
Section 14-2-28 Facilities - Construction
Status: in_force

(a)(1)a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the contract for the design and construction of the specialized men’s prison facility and the Escambia men’s prison facility authorized in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)a. may be awarded to either of the following:

1. Any person that was part of a team qualified by the department for any proposed facility pursuant to the Request for Qualifications issued by the Department of Corrections June 27, 2019, provided that the previously qualified person may petition the department to add or substitute members as needed.

2. In the event the authority determines it is not in the best interest of this state to enter into a contract for the design and construction of one or both of the specialized men’s prison facility and the Escambia men’s prison facility pursuant to subparagraph 1., the authority may enter into contracts with any other public and private parties for the design and construction of the facilities not contracted for pursuant to subparagraph 1., including a design-build contract, in accordance with the following:

(i) The authority shall develop procedures to implement this section, including, but not limited to, proposal content, selection criteria, prequalification, applicant interview, proposal evaluation, proposal negotiation, selection, and award, which will be outlined in each authority request for proposal.

(ii) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, proposals under this section shall be awarded by the authority based on qualifications of participants and best value as evaluated by procedures of the authority and taking into consideration the best interest of this state.

(iii) Proposals shall use the standard specifications of the department or other specifications the authority and the department determine necessary for the facility.

(iv) The authority may award a contract through any other procurement authority, proposals, or other means of procurement otherwise available for public works projects in this state.

b. Both the specialized men’s prison facility and the Escambia men’s prison facility shall not be awarded to the same person unless it is determined by the authority that to award the contracts to the same person would be in the best interest of this state.

c. Unless the authority finds it is not in the best interest of this state, the contract for the design and construction of the specialized men’s prison facility shall be executed before execution of the contract for the design and construction of the Escambia men’s prison facility.

d. Any contract for the design and construction of the specialized men’s prison facility or for the design and construction of the Escambia men’s prison facility shall establish a guaranteed maximum price for each project.

e. As a condition of entering into a contract for the design and construction of either the specialized men’s prison facility or the Escambia men’s prison facility, any person entering into the contract shall agree to full transparency and shall share all pricing information with the authority. The authority, at its sole discretion, shall have the right to require verification of competitive pricing for any portion of the proposed scope of the design and construction agreements.

(2)a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in paragraph b., all other construction contemplated by Act 2021-546 shall be subject to the bid requirements for public works in Title 39.

b. When two or more bids are received for contracts referenced in paragraph a., and all bids exceed available funding for the contract as provided in Section 14-2-12, the authority may negotiate for the work with the lowest responsible and responsive bidder provided that the authority certifies a shortage of funding, that time is of the essence, and that the negotiated changes are in the public interest and do not materially alter the scope and nature of the project.

(c) All such contracts shall be lump sum contracts. The entire work on a prison facility may be divided into one or more contracts. All contracts for the entire work on a facility need not be awarded at the same time, so that prior work under another contract can progress to a point where the joint or following work can best be coordinated for the earliest completion of the entire project in a sound and workmanlike manner. Each contract shall be executed by the authority. Payments made by the authority under the construction contracts shall be upon the contractor’s written sworn request only if endorsed as approved by the commission or in any lesser amount the commission shall endorse as having been then earned on the contract. After the contracts for a facility have been awarded, the construction cost estimate shall be revised and all extras on the contracts shall be awarded within the funds available. The authority shall pay to the commission as a part of the cost of constructing the facility such sums for the services of its employees as may be mutually agreed between the department and the commission.
Ala. Code § 14-8-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-4
Section 14-8-4 Limitations on Securing Employment
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall endeavor to secure employment for eligible inmates under this article, subject to the following:

(1) Such employment must be at a wage at least as high as the prevailing wage for similar work in the area or community where the work is performed and in accordance with the prevailing working conditions in such an area;

(2) Such employment shall not result in the displacement of employed workers;

(3) Inmates eligible for work release shall not be employed as strikebreakers or in impairing any existing contracts; and

(4) Exploitation of eligible prisoners, in any form, is prohibited either as it might affect the community, the inmates or the board.
Ala. Code § 14-8-9 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-9
Section 14-8-9 Annual Report; Public Understanding
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall prepare an annual report to be filed not later than 60 days following the close of each fiscal year with the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, members of the Legislature and the Legislative Budget Committee showing the operation and administrations and suggestions as deemed advisable. The commissioner will provide public understanding of the provisions of this article as well as promote the cooperation of all state agencies involved in implementing the provisions of this article.
Ala. Code § 14-3-9 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-9
Section 14-3-9 Reporting of Violations of Law; Investigation and Inspection; Powers as Law Enforcement Officers; Minimum Standards
Status: in_force

(a) All employees of the Department of Corrections shall report all violations of the law relating to prisons, correctional facilities, and employees and inmates of the Department of Corrections to the Law Enforcement Services Division of the Department of Corrections. Correctional investigative services officers of the division shall investigate all reported and discovered violations and, where applicable, refer the violations to the proper district attorney. All indictments for violations shall be tried in the circuit court of the county where the offense was committed.

(b) Employees of the Department of Corrections classified as correctional investigative services officers, correctional canine classifications, and their supervisors performing criminal investigative duties are considered law enforcement officers of this state, as defined in Section 36-21-40. Correctional investigative services officers, correctional canine classifications, and their supervisors have full and unlimited police powers and jurisdiction, as any other state police officers in this state, to investigate violations of the law relating to prisons, correctional facilities, and employees and inmates of the Department of Corrections and to enforce the law. Whenever correctional investigative services officers or correctional canine classifications are effecting an arrest, they shall properly display a badge.

(c) All correctional investigative services officers, correctional canine classifications, and their supervisors given police powers by this section shall be required to comply with the minimum standards now in effect relating to state law enforcement officers.
Ala. Code § 14-6-105 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-105
Section 14-6-105 Deputies, Watchmen, Etc., for Jails, Etc
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-96 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-96
Section 14-6-96 Fumigation of Jails, Etc., Where Persons with Infectious, Etc., Diseases Confined
Status: in_force

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 be fumigated immediately upon the removal of such person, the fumigation to be done under the direction of the sheriff, chief of police or town marshal or the keeper or manager of the almshouse, in their respective places, and the expense thereof to be paid out of the funds of the county if the institution be a county institution and of the town or city if the institution be a town or city institution.
Ala. Code § 14-8-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-7
Section 14-8-7 Good Time
Status: in_force

Inmates employed under this article shall be eligible for good time credit in the same manner as other inmates under the jurisdiction of the board.
Ala. Code § 14-1-1.4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-1.4
Section 14-1-1.4 Commissioner of Corrections - Qualifications; Oath; Bond
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall be a person of good character, of good business experience and experience in the administration of correctional systems, shall have no financial interest in any partnership, corporation or association with which the department has any financial dealings and shall devote his full time to his official position and shall hold no other lucrative position while serving as such. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the commissioner shall take the constitutional oath of office and execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in an amount to be fixed by the Governor, but not less than $10,000.00, for the faithful performance of his duties.
Ala. Code § 14-13-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 13 / Section 14-13-3
Section 14-13-3 Authority of Commissioner of Department of Corrections to Carry Out Compact; Contracts with Other Member States
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections is hereby authorized and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact in every particular and he may in his discretion delegate this authority to an official designee. In order to develop an effective corrections policy, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections is expressly authorized to enter into contracts with other states that have legally joined into the Interstate Corrections Compact as contained in Section 14-13-2. Said contract shall be negotiated between the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections or his designee and such authority as the other state shall legally designate to negotiate such contracts, and the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections is empowered to sign, obligate or otherwise consummate such contracts for the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 14-12-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 12 / Section 14-12-4
Section 14-12-4 Payment of Costs of Operating Schools; Preparation and Consideration of Annual Estimate of Costs
Status: in_force

(a) The total costs of operating the schools authorized by this chapter shall be borne entirely by the state and shall be paid from the Alabama Special Educational Trust Fund.

(b) Such costs shall be considered annually, upon the recommendation of the State Department of Education, by the joint interim committee made up of the Ways and Means Committee of the House and the Finance and Taxation Committee of the Senate. An estimate of costs for the 1977-78 school year and each succeeding year shall be made to the above mentioned committee when the budget estimates are presented by the State Department of Education.
Ala. Code § 14-8-42 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-42
Section 14-8-42 Willful Failure of Inmate to Remain Within Extended Limits of Confinement or Return to Place of Confinement Within Time Prescribed
Status: in_force

The willful failure of an inmate to remain within the extended limits of his confinement or to return to the place of confinement within the time prescribed shall be deemed an escape from a state penal institution in the case of a state inmate and an escape from the custody of the sheriff in the case of a county inmate and shall be punishable accordingly.
Ala. Code § 14-11-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Section 14-11-4
Section 14-11-4 Failure of Duty or Violation of Law by Guard, Etc., of Convicts Generally
Status: in_force

Any guard or any person having the charge, management or control of any convict who fails to discharge any of the duties imposed upon him by law or in any other way violates any of the provisions of law regulating or governing the inspection, treatment, confinement, working or guarding or the charge, management or control of convicts, state or county, when no other punishment is provided for such failure in duty or violation of law, must, on conviction, be fined not more than $1,000, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than 12 months.
Ala. Code § 14-7-9 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-9
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 Engaged
Status: in_force

At least 30 days prior to a final decision by the Board of Corrections to obligate any funds to initiate manufacturing in an industry in which it has not been engaged in the past, the board shall issue a press release stating such intent and provide written notice to various trade associations in Alabama calling for a public hearing of all interested parties. The intent of this provision is to give the Board of Corrections the benefit of input from parties who may be affected by the board’s decisions but final decision-making authority rests with the board.
Ala. Code § 14-2-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-3
Section 14-2-3 Incorporation by State Officials - Authority
Status: in_force

The Governor, the Commissioner of Corrections, the Director of Finance, the Lieutenant Governor and the Attorney General may become a public corporation with the power and authority provided in this chapter by proceeding according to the provisions of this chapter.
Ala. Code § 14-1-5 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-5
Section 14-1-5 Bond of Officers and Employees
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall require its officers and employees and those of institutions under its charge or control who may be charged with the handling of any public moneys to give bond to the state in a sum to be prescribed by the board, conditioned faithfully to account for all moneys and to disburse the same according to law, the bonds to be signed by an approved surety company and to be approved by the commissioner of the board.

(b) The premiums on the bonds shall be paid by the state.
Ala. Code § 14-7-18 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-18
Section 14-7-18 Preparation and Promulgation of Policies as to Administration of Chapter
Status: in_force

The Board of Corrections shall have the power and authority to prepare and promulgate policies which are necessary to give effect to the provisions of this chapter with respect to matters of administration respecting the same.
Ala. Code § 14-5-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-4
Section 14-5-4 Penalty for Violating Sections 14-5-2 and 14-5-3
Status: in_force

Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of Sections 14-5-2 and 14-5-3 shall be, for each violation, guilty of a felony and be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than 10 years.
Ala. Code § 14-9-66 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-66
Section 14-9-66 Construction of Article; Cause of Action; Limitations on Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

This article does not create an interest or right for any prisoner to participate in, or receive education incentive time for, any qualifying program, nor does it authorize the commissioner to create an interest or right. No prisoner or class of prisoners may bring a cause of action against any party in any court involving the subject matter of education incentive time under this article. No court has subject matter jurisdiction over challenges to directives, rules, or policies adopted under this article; awards or failures to award education incentive time; decisions related to approving programs for credit; program admission decisions; financial aid eligibility determinations; evaluations or grades; certifications of program completion; or any other acts or omissions arising from or related to the authority granted by this article.
Ala. Code § 14-8-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-3
Section 14-8-3 Investigations and Recommendations
Status: in_force

Employees of the board are authorized to make investigations and recommendations pertaining to the validity of requests for visits, job opportunities for inmates and to otherwise assist the commissioner in the implementation of the program authorized in this article.
Ala. Code § 14-6-15 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-15
Section 14-6-15 Commitment or Discharge of Prisoners - Duty of Sheriff to Report to Clerk of Circuit Court
Status: in_force

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 report in writing to the clerk of the circuit court of such county, within 10 days next succeeding the commitment, the name of such prisoner, the day of his entering such jail and by what authority and upon what charge committed; and when a prisoner is discharged from, or otherwise leaves such jail, the sheriff shall report to such clerk, within two days next succeeding, the name of such prisoner and by what authority and when he so left or was discharged.
Ala. Code § 14-8-64 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-64
Section 14-8-64 Investigations and Recommendations by Employees of Board of Corrections Pertaining to Requests for Visits or Job Opportunities, Etc
Status: in_force

Employees of the board are authorized to make investigations and recommendations pertaining to the validity of requests for visits or job opportunities for inmates and otherwise to assist the commissioner in the implementation of the program authorized by this article.
Ala. Code § 14-1-1.7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-1.7
Section 14-1-1.7 Appointment of Administrators; Employees Appointed for Constituent Services
Status: in_force

(a)(1) The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections may appoint administrators to carry out the operations and management of correctional facilities, including facilities defined in Section 14-2-1, who: (i) shall serve at his or her pleasure; (ii) shall be deemed exempt employees under Section 36-26-10; and (iii) shall not be required to be certified as either a corrections officer or a law enforcement officer by the Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission.

(2) The commissioner, as the appointing authority, shall establish the positions, set the qualification requirements, define duties and personnel policies, and set salaries not to exceed the salary of the commissioner.

(b)(1) By March 1, 2025, the commissioner may appoint 15 employees for constituent services who: (i) shall serve at his or her pleasure; (ii) shall be deemed exempt employees under Section 36-26-10; and (iii) shall not be required to be certified as either a corrections officer or a law enforcement officer by the Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission.

(2) One employee shall oversee departmental constituent services and shall serve as a liaison to the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, created by Section 29-2-20, for the purposes of studying and addressing services provided by the department to constituents and the families of inmates and victims.

(3) The other 14 employees shall oversee constituent services for all department facilities.

(4) The commissioner, as the appointing authority, shall consider information from the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee in establishing qualification requirements and duties of the employees. The commissioner shall also set salaries not to exceed the salary of the commissioner.

(5) At a minimum, employees appointed in constituent services shall:

a. Create a standardized form to be used by the department for inquiries and complaints received by constituents and families of incarcerated individuals and victims. The form shall contain a central physical address and email address to be used for submittal of the form;

b. Provide the electronic form on the department’s website;

c. Review inquiries and complaints received by the department via the electronic form. Every inquiry and complaint form shall be assigned to a constituent services employee and shall be provided to the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee’s liaison; and

d. Respond to every inquiry and complaint form, following the department’s procedures, and provide the responses to the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee’s liaison.
Ala. Code § 14-1-22 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-22
Section 14-1-22 Agreements for Operation of Facilities
Status: in_force

On or before January 1, 2022, the Department of Corrections shall enter into agreements, and operation shall begin pursuant to the agreements, with at least one residential transition center established pursuant to Section 15-22-30.1 or at least three consenting county jails designated pursuant to Section 14-1-23, and whose facilities will be used for the housing and care of parolees and probationers charged with, or sanctioned or revoked for, a parole or probation violation pursuant to Section 15-22-32 or 15-22-54. Where county jails are used for the housing and care of such parolees and probationers, the agreements shall be implemented and the county jails shall be designated as provided by Section 14-1-23.
Ala. Code § 14-6-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-7
Section 14-6-7 Removal of Prisoners - When Made to Nearest Sufficient Jail
Status: in_force

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 there be danger of rescue or lawless violence to any prisoner, any circuit court judge may, on the application of the sheriff and proof of the fact, direct the removal of any prisoner or prisoners to the nearest sufficient jail in any other county; and it is the duty of such judge, in such case, to make an endorsement on the order or process of commitment, stating the reason why such removal is ordered, and to date and sign such endorsement.
Ala. Code § 14-4-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-4
Section 14-4-4 Report of Hard Labor Sentence to Probate Judge
Status: in_force

(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 probate of the county for which such sentence is made, the name of such person, the length of his sentence, the date of its commencement and the amount of costs. Any judicial officer presiding over a court that has a clerk may order such report to be made by such clerk.

(b) Any judicial officer or clerk who fails to report in writing to the judge of probate, as required by law, the name of any person sentenced to hard labor for the county, length of such sentence, the date of its commencement and the amount of the costs therein must, on conviction, be fined not less than $25.00.
Ala. Code § 14-7-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-7
Section 14-7-7 Purpose of Chapter
Status: in_force

It is hereby declared to be the intent of this chapter:

(1) To provide more adequate, regular and suitable employment for the vocational training and rehabilitation of the prisoners of this state, consistent with proper penal purposes.

(2) To utilize the labor of prisoners for self-maintenance, reimbursing this state for expenses incurred by reason of their crimes and imprisonment, and for initial living expenses upon reentry into the community following release from prison.

(3) To effect the requisitioning and disbursement of prison products directly through established state authorities without possibility of private profits therefrom.

(4) To provide prison industry projects designed to place inmates in working and training environments in which they are able to acquire marketable skills and earn money to off-set the cost of incarceration, make payments for restitution to their victims, provide support for their families, and prepare for their release from prison.
Ala. Code § 14-4-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-3
Section 14-4-3 Maintenance of Record of Convicts by Board of Corrections; Report to Board by Probate Judge
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-91 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-91
Section 14-6-91 Publication of Reports, Etc
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-9-43 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-43
Section 14-9-43 Good Conduct Time Previously Earned; Applicability of Article
Status: in_force

(a) Any good conduct time credit earned by or otherwise granted to a prisoner prior to enactment of this article, under laws existing prior to the passage of this article, shall be computed by the Department of Corrections through the date next preceding May 19, 1980 under such laws and such time credit, less any forfeited, shall be granted to the prisoner.

(b) The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to any prisoner serving time prior to May 19, 1980, nor to any person who commits an offense prior to May 19, 1980, even if such person is sentenced after May 19, 1980. Deductions from the sentences of such persons shall be earned at the same rate as provided by law prior to May 19, 1980. All constitutional rights, remedies and privileges of such persons shall not be reduced, diminished or abolished.
Ala. Code § 14-2-25 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-25
Section 14-2-25 Conveyance of Property by State; Right to Possession Thereof; Consideration Therefor
Status: in_force

The Governor of the state is authorized to execute and deliver, at any time and from time to time, an appropriate deed or deeds conveying to the authority: (1) The Kilby property, (2) Any unimproved real property belonging to the state in any county which the department determines to be needed by the authority for the construction of facilities, and (3) Any improved real property and any personal property associated therewith, belonging to the state in any county which the department determines to be needed by the authority for the construction, reconstruction or improvement of facilities. Upon delivery of such deed to the authority, it thereby shall be invested with all right and title that the state had in the property conveyed thereby, subject to the right of reverter to the state of all such property, except such parts of the Kilby property as shall be sold as authorized in Section 14-2-26, upon the dissolution of the authority. The authority shall be entitled to immediate possession of all such property upon execution of the deed thereto, but it shall not have the right to possession of the Kilby property, or any portion or parcel thereof, until such time or times as the board shall determine that such property, or a portion or parcel, is not required by it for penal or correctional use. The consideration for said conveyance shall be the authority’s agreement to reconvey to the state all said property, except portions of the Kilby property, which have been disposed of, with all improvements thereon, free of charge, immediately before the dissolution of the authority. Since the state will receive back in free rent or earlier reconveyance of facilities the full value of the Kilby property and since other property to be conveyed to and utilized by the authority would not otherwise be improved or further improved, said consideration is hereby conclusively determined to be valuable, adequate and fair. Immediately prior to its dissolution, the authority shall also convey to the state all other assets acquired by the authority, whether by purchase, gift, grant or otherwise, provided the terms of the grant are not violated thereby.
Ala. Code § 14-5-34 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-34
Section 14-5-34 Program May Be Used for Removal of Litter on Private Cemetary, Church Property, and Private Property Where Nuisance
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-4-10 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-10
Section 14-4-10 Sentencing of Convicts - Sentences for Costs
Status: in_force

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 in any case for the payment of costs of conviction may be imposed, and the court must determine a reasonable time required to work out such costs. The costs of conviction of county convicts shall be the same as provided by law now in force in the respective counties.
Ala. Code § 14-1-1.6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-1.6
Section 14-1-1.6 Release into Federal Custody of Persons Whose Federal Sentence Exceeds State Sentence
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections shall release into the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons, or its authorized representative, any person in the custody of the Department of Corrections whose federal sentence exceeds his or her sentence in Alabama unless he or she was convicted of a Class A felony or a sex offense defined pursuant to Section 15-20A-5.
Ala. Code § 14-6-86 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-86
Section 14-6-86 Formulation of Rules and Regulations
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-1-4.2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-4.2
Section 14-1-4.2 Use of Police Animal or Search and Rescue Animal to Assist with Public Safety
Status: in_force

Any Department of Corrections officer certified by the Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission, including a K-9 handler, may use a police animal or search and rescue animal, as defined in Section 13A-11-260, to assist any law enforcement agency with public safety.
Ala. Code § 14-1-11 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-11
Section 14-1-11 Functions and Duties - Power and Authority - Rules and Regulations
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-4-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-7
Section 14-4-7 Work on Public Roads - Female Convicts
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-14-6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 14 / Section 14-14-6
Section 14-14-6 Review
Status: in_force

This chapter shall not be deemed to grant any entitlement or right to release. Upon denial of release by the commissioner, the commissioner may schedule further review of consideration of medical furlough. No inmate or anyone acting on the inmate’s behalf shall have the right to seek judicial review.
Ala. Code § 14-8-2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-2
Section 14-8-2 Authority to Adopt Regulations and Policies to Implement Program
Status: in_force

(a) The board is authorized to adopt regulations and policies permitting the commissioner to extend the limits of the place of confinement of an inmate, as to whom there is reasonable cause to believe he will know his trust, by authorizing him, under prescribed conditions, to leave the confines of that place unaccompanied by a custodial agent for a prescribed period of time to work at paid employment while continuing as an inmate of the institution or facility in which he shall be confined except during the hours of his employment or seeking of employment and traveling thereto and therefrom. Inmates shall participate in paid employment at the discretion of the board.

(b) The board may adopt regulations as to the eligibility of those inmates who are classified as minimum security risks for the extension of confinement or the entering into agreement between the board and any city, county or federal agency for the housing of these inmates in a local place of confinement. The board shall, as the need becomes evident, designate and adapt facilities in the state prison system to accomplish the purpose of this article.
Ala. Code § 14-7-15 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-15
Section 14-7-15 Reports as to Purchases by State Offices, Etc
Status: in_force

At least 30 days before the beginning of each fiscal year, the Finance Department shall provide to the Board of Corrections summary reports of the kind and amount of articles and products purchased for state offices, departments, institutions and agencies based upon the previous nine months experience. Not more than 100 days following the close of each fiscal year, the Finance Department shall submit to the Board of Corrections a report showing the kinds and amounts of such prison manufactured articles purchased by all state offices, departments, institutions and agencies based upon the purchase experience of the entire previous fiscal year. All such reports shall refer, insofar as possible, to the items or products contained in the catalogue as issued by the Board of Corrections.
Ala. Code § 14-11-5 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Section 14-11-5
Section 14-11-5 Noncompliance by Officer, Etc., with Sentence of Solitary Confinement
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-5-1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-1
Section 14-5-1 “Hard Labor for the County” Defined
Status: in_force

“Hard labor for the county,” as used in this code or any other law of the state, shall include labor on the public roads, public bridges and other public works in the county.
Ala. Code § 14-3-71 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-71
Section 14-3-71 Department Authorized to Install High Voltage Electrified Security Fence Systems
Status: in_force

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 installation, there shall be posted universal danger signs on all sides of the system, clearly visible to inmates and the public, displaying the warning, “deadly voltage.”
Ala. Code § 14-2-36 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-36
Section 14-2-36 Exemption from Competitive Bid Laws
Status: in_force

All leases of facilities made by the authority shall be exempt from the provisions and requirements of Chapter 16 of Title 41 of this Code.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-4
Section 14-6A-4 Facility to Serve as County Jail; Sheriff’s Authority; Employees; Duty of Superintendent
Status: in_force

(a) After a regional jail facility is operational, the facility shall serve as the county jail for each county participating in the regional jail authority and shall satisfy the requirements of Section 11-14-10 and Section 14-6-1. The sheriff of each county shall retain his or her authority regarding the custody and transportation of prisoners from his or her county and may cause the removal of any prisoner from the regional jail facility for any purpose authorized by law. The superintendent of the regional jail facility and all jail personnel shall be employees of the regional jail authority unless the facility is maintained and operated by a privately owned jail management firm. The superintendent shall be selected by the sheriff members of the board of directors and shall serve at their pleasure. The superintendent, according to written policies and procedures adopted by the sheriff members of the board of directors, shall have and exercise control and authority over prisoners committed or transferred to the regional jail facility while housed in the facility and shall supervise all jail officers and other employees assigned to the facility.

(b) Upon resolution of the county commission, any county participating in a regional jail authority may continue to keep operational the jail in its county for the limited purpose of temporarily housing prisoners as necessary while awaiting arraignment or other hearing or as otherwise deemed necessary by the sheriff of the county.
Ala. Code § 14-4-11 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-11
Section 14-4-11 Superintendent of Public Works - Appointment
Status: in_force

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 roads, public bridges or other public works of the county, it may appoint a Superintendent of Public Works, whose term of office shall expire when his successor is qualified and who shall receive for his services such compensation as shall be fixed by the county commission.
Ala. Code § 14-9-60 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-60
Section 14-9-60 Short Title
Status: in_force

This article shall be known as the Alabama Education Incentive Time Act.
Ala. Code § 14-4-5 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-5
Section 14-4-5 Record of Convicts to Be Kept by Probate Judge
Status: in_force

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 inspection of the public, in which he shall enter the name of each convict sentenced to hard labor for the county, the place where the convict is to labor and the length of sentence. He shall also keep a record of the convicts sentenced to the penitentiary showing the name, the offense of which he was convicted and the date and termination of his sentence.
Ala. Code § 14-6-101 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-101
Section 14-6-101 Notification of Board of Corrections as to Alterations, Etc
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-4-14 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-14
Section 14-4-14 Oath of Superintendent of Public Works and Guards
Status: in_force

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 the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe the following oath before some officer authorized to administer the same: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alabama, so long as I remain a citizen of said state, and that I will faithfully execute and discharge all duties required of me (as superintendent or guard of convicts, as the case may be) and that I will observe all rules and regulations prescribed for the government of convicts, so far as I am thereby directed, and will in no case ill treat or abuse any convict under my charge or control or inflict any other or greater punishment than may be prescribed by said rules and regulations.” Such oath shall be filed by the party taking the same in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the convict is sentenced to hard labor.
Ala. Code § 14-4-2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-2
Section 14-4-2 Superintendence and Control of Convicts
Status: in_force

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 particular works the labor shall be performed, and all convicts sentenced to hard labor for the county shall be under the direction and control of the county commission when worked in the county where convicted, unless otherwise provided by court order. It may hire sufficient guards for the safekeeping and maintenance of the convicts on the public roads of the respective counties.
Ala. Code § 14-2-20 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-20
Section 14-2-20 Bonds - Investment of Proceeds
Status: in_force

Any portion of the principal proceeds derived from the sale of the bonds which the board of directors of the authority may determine is not then needed for any of the purposes for which the bonds are authorized to be issued shall, on order of the authority, be invested by the State Treasurer in any securities which are direct and general obligations of the United States of America or the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by the United States of America. Any such securities may, at any time and from time to time on order of the authority, be sold or otherwise converted by the State Treasurer into cash. The income derived from any such investments shall be disbursed on order of the authority for any purpose for which it may lawfully expend funds.
Ala. Code § 14-7-11 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-11
Section 14-7-11 Manufactured or Produced Articles or Products - Prices
Status: in_force

The Board of Corrections and the Finance Department shall fix and determine the prices at which all articles or products manufactured or produced shall be furnished.
Ala. Code § 14-9-44 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-44
Section 14-9-44 Nonretroactive Effect of Article; Effect on Habitual Offender Laws
Status: in_force

(a) Nothing herein shall be interpreted to give any retroactive effect to this article.

(b) Nothing contained in this article shall in any way be construed to repeal or affect the provisions of Section 13A-5-9, or any other statute heretofore or hereinafter enacted in this state dealing with habitual felony offenders or the sentencing of such offenders.
Ala. Code § 14-3-38 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-38
Section 14-3-38 How Sentences to Be Served on Two or More Convictions; Effect of Convict’s Conduct Thereon
Status: in_force

(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 that such sentences be served concurrently, such sentences shall be cumulative and shall be served consecutively, the first term thereof beginning to run from the date on which such prisoner is received at the penitentiary, reformatory or jail for service of the sentence or at some place of detention to await transportation to the place where his sentences are to be served and his second and subsequent terms, each, beginning on the expiration of the preceding term. When the judgment sentence contains a fixed order that the term shall run concurrently, such sentences shall run concurrently from the date on which such convict is received for serving of the sentences as prescribed above.

(b) In case the prison record of a convict serving two or more sentences consecutively is good, he shall be discharged at the expiration of the last term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced, less any deduction from the sentences accorded him pursuant to Sections 14-9-1 through 14-9-3.

(c) In case the prison record of a convict serving two or more sentences concurrently is good, he shall be discharged at the expiration of the longest term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced, less any deduction therefrom accorded him pursuant to Sections 14-9-1 through 14-9-3.

(d) In case the record of a prisoner during his term shall not have been good, the director, at his discretion, may revoke any or all of the deductions given under Sections 14-9-1 through 14-9-3, whether such convict is serving his terms of imprisonment concurrently or consecutively.
Ala. Code § 14-7-21 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-21
Section 14-7-21 Sale, Etc., of Surplus Agricultural Products and Personal Property
Status: in_force

The Board of Corrections shall have the power to authorize the commissioner of the Board of Corrections to sell and dispose of all surplus agricultural products and all personal property owned by the Board of Corrections which have not been manufactured by the board for the purpose of sale at such prices and on such terms and under such rules and regulations as it deems best to adopt. The Board of Corrections shall continue to exercise its rights and privileges relative to the sale and disposal of serviceable state personal property no longer needed by state agencies.
Ala. Code § 14-2-12 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-12
Section 14-2-12 Bonds - Authorization
Status: in_force

(a) The authority is hereby authorized, from time to time, to sell and issue, in addition to all bonds heretofore authorized to be issued by the authority, its bonds in such aggregate principal amounts as may be determined by the corporation to be necessary for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition of sites, for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, and improvement of facilities, for the procurement and installation of equipment therefor, and for payment of obligations incurred and the principal of and interest on any temporary loans made for any of the purposes. The aggregate principal amount of additional bonds authorized pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000), plus an additional seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($7,500,000) pursuant to Act 97-950.

(b) In addition to the authorization provided in subsection (a), the authority is hereby authorized, from time to time, to sell and issue its bonds in amounts determined by the authority to be necessary for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and improvement of facilities. Additional bonds may be issued to provide for additional bed space by improving properties currently owned by the Department of Corrections or the authority. The total additional bonds authorized by this subsection shall not exceed sixty million dollars ($60,000,000).

(c)(1) Subject to subdivision (2), in addition to any other authorization provided in this chapter, the authority is hereby authorized, from time to time, to sell and issue bonds in multiple series and in amounts determined by the authority to be necessary to replace existing bed space in Department of Corrections facilities through the implementation of the phased plan set forth in Act 2021-546. The total additional bonds authorized to facilitate the phased plan set forth in Act 2021-546 may not exceed one billion two hundred eighty-five million dollars ($1,285,000,000).

(2) The additional bonds authorized under subdivision (1) shall be issued by the authority as necessary for the projects specified in each phase:

a.1. PHASE 1: Effective October 1, 2021, the authority shall be authorized to issue bonds as necessary, and subject to the limitation in this subsection, to fund the following Phase 1 projects:

(i) The construction of the specialized men’s prison facility.

(ii) The construction of the Escambia men’s prison facility.

2. Within one year from the completion of the specialized men’s prison facility and the Escambia men’s prison facility, the Staton, Elmore, and Kilby facilities shall all be closed.

3. At a time to be determined by the Department of Corrections, and following the closure of the facilities described in subparagraph 2., the next major Department of Corrections facility to be closed shall be the St. Clair Correctional Facility.

b. PHASE 2: Upon substantial completion of at least 60 percent of the construction of Phase 1 projects, in the aggregate, or anytime thereafter, as certified by the Commissioner of Corrections, and upon certification by the Director of Finance, the Chair of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee, and the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee that the General Fund can support additional lease payments from the department to the authority or that the funding otherwise exists to complete any of the Phase 2 projects and it is in the best interest of the state to do so, the authority shall be authorized to issue bonds as necessary, and subject to the limitation in this subsection, to fund any of the following Phase 2 projects:

1. The construction of a women’s prison facility. Within one year of completion of this women’s facility, the Julia Tutwiler Prison shall be closed.

2. The renovation and improvement, or, if necessary, the demolition and reconstruction, of existing state-owned prison facilities in Jefferson and Limestone Counties.

3. The renovation and improvement, or, if necessary, the demolition and reconstruction, of an existing state-owned men’s prison facility to be selected by the authority and to be located in Barbour or Bullock County.

c. PHASE 3: Prior to substantial completion of 75 percent of the renovation and improvement of Phase 2 projects, in the aggregate, as certified by the Commissioner of Corrections, the Department of Corrections, in consultation with the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, shall perform an evaluation of men’s prison facilities based on a current facilities assessment and inmate population trends to determine if additional facility beds need to be replaced. This evaluation shall include a site assessment of the Bibb Correctional Facility to determine the feasibility of repurposing the existing facility, on existing property, into a correctional or rehabilitation facility or for any other purpose. A copy of the evaluation shall be provided to the Legislature.

(3) If bond proceeds exceed the amount authorized in subdivision (1) due to receipt of original issue premium in connection with the sale of bonds or due to any other reason, the bond proceeds in excess of those amounts shall be allocated by the authority for the expense of issuance, including capitalized interest, or as determined necessary for the purposes provided in subdivision (1).

(4) Within 30 days of the completion of any bond sale pursuant to this subsection, the authority shall provide a report in concise, simple language to the Legislature which reflects the date of the issuance of the bonds pursuant to this subsection, total amount of the bonds, maturity date, schedule of payments, including interest and principal, amount of attorney fees, architect fees and bond attorney fees, underwriting fees, and all other costs incurred in the issuance of and sale of the bonds herein authorized, and to what person, firm, corporation, company, or other entity to which any such fees or money is to be or has been paid.

(d) Any monetary transactions by the authority completed pursuant to Act 2010-729 and Act 2021-546 shall be fully disclosed to the public.

(e) Any bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be sold pursuant to the terms of Section 14-2-16.

(f)(1) The authority is strongly encouraged to utilize businesses and companies in all aspects of the bond portions of this chapter which reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the state.

(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority encourage participation by minority businesses in the construction of prison facilities as provided by Act 2021-546. Accordingly, the authority shall adopt a plan that achieves to the greatest extent possible a level of participation by minority businesses, with a focus on ethnic minority businesses, including prevailing ethnic minority businesses. The authority shall administer training programs and other educational activities to enable eligible minority businesses to compete for participation on an equal basis, and shall focus on developing ethnic minority businesses, including prevailing ethnic minority businesses. The authority shall monitor the results of minority business participation and shall report at least on a quarterly basis the results of minority business participation, with specificity, to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Senate Minority Leader, and the House Minority Leader.
Ala. Code § 14-2-30.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-30.1
Section 14-2-30.1 Facilities-Lease or Purchase of Prison Facility in Perry County
Status: in_force

The state, through any of its departments or agencies or a subdivision thereof, shall lease or purchase upon commercially reasonable terms, or a combination thereof, the existing prison facility in Perry County to be utilized by the department or any other state department or agency using funds appropriated for that purpose from the State General Fund.
Ala. Code § 14-8-1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-1
Section 14-8-1 Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section.

(1) BOARD. The Board of Corrections.

(2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Board of Corrections.

(3) STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Such term shall mean and include Draper Correctional Center in Elmore; Frank Lee Youth Center in Deatsville; Atmore State Prison Farm in Atmore; the State Cattle Ranch in Greensboro; Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka and all road camps.

(4) INMATE. A person either male or female, convicted of a felony and sentenced to a term of confinement and treatment in a state correctional institution under the jurisdiction of the board.
Ala. Code § 14-2-21 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-21
Section 14-2-21 Bonds - Security
Status: in_force

(a) The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the bonds of the authority shall be secured by any or all of the following, as the authority may determine:

(1) The rent and revenue for the use of one or more facilities of the authority;

(2) The net rent or sale proceeds from the Kilby property;

(3) Any bond proceeds remaining unexpended upon completion of all facilities to be constructed with such bond proceeds and the payment of the cost thereof;

(4) Any insurance proceeds which the authority may receive by reason of its ownership of any of the facilities; and

(5) Any mortgage upon or security interest in one or more facilities of the authority, granted in connection with the issuance of such bonds.

(b) The authority shall have authority to transfer and assign any lease agreement of any of the facilities and any lease or mortgage of the Kilby property as security for the payment of such principal, premium, if any, and interest. The bonds may be issued under, and secured by, a resolution which may, but need not, provide for an indenture of trust covering one or more facilities of the authority. Such resolution or such indenture of trust may contain any provision or agreement customarily contained in instruments securing evidences of indebtedness, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, provisions respecting the collection and application of any lease agreement revenues, or other receipts pledged to the payment of bonds, the terms to be incorporated in lease agreements respecting the facilities, the maintenance and insurance thereof, the creation and maintenance of reserve and other special funds from such receipts, and the rights and remedies available in the event of default to the holders of the bonds or to the trustee for the holders of the bonds or under any indenture of trust, all as the authority may deem advisable and as shall not be in conflict with the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that in making such agreements or provisions the authority shall not have the power to obligate itself except with respect to its facilities, the Kilby property, and the application of the lease agreement revenues and other receipts which it is authorized in this chapter to pledge.

(c) The Department of Corrections - Correctional Capital Improvement Fund is created within the State Treasury, to be administered by the Department of Corrections. The Legislature shall make appropriations to this entity to be used exclusively for the construction, renovation, and improvement of the prison facilities as enumerated in Section 14-2-12(c).

(d) The Correctional Facilities Maintenance Fund is created within the State Treasury, to be administered by the Department of Corrections. The Legislature shall make appropriations to this fund to be used exclusively for maintenance of the prison facilities as enumerated in Section 14-2-12(c).
Ala. Code § 14-3-42 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-42
Section 14-3-42 Removal of Convicts - Insanity
Status: reserved

REPEALED IN THE 2015 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2015-70 EFFECTIVE APRIL 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-99 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-99
Section 14-6-99 Appointment of Special Coroner
Status: in_force

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 probate shall appoint a special coroner at the request of the board.
Ala. Code § 14-2-13.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-13.1
Section 14-2-13.1 Bonds - Limitations on Issuance of Refunding Bonds; Present Value of Debt Service; Average Maturity of Refunding Bonds
Status: in_force

It is hereby further provided that no refunding bonds as provided for by Section 14-2-13 shall be issued unless the present value of all debt service on the refunding bonds (computed with a discount rate equal to the bond yield of the refunding bonds and taking into account all underwriting discount and other issuance expenses) shall not be greater than 98 percent of the present value of all debt service on the bonds to be refunded (computed using the same discount rate and taking into account the underwriting discount and other issuance expenses originally applicable to such bonds) determined as if such bonds to be refunded were paid and retired in accordance with the schedule of maturities (considering mandatory redemption as a scheduled maturity) provided at the time of their issuance. Provided further, that the average maturity of the refunding bonds, as measured from the date of issuance of such refunding bonds, shall not exceed by more than three years the average maturity of the bonds to be refunded, as also measured from such date of issuance, with the average maturity of any principal amount of bonds to be determined by multiplying the principal of each maturity by the number of years (including any fractional part of a year) intervening between such date of issuance and each such maturity, taking the sum of all such products, and then dividing such sum by the aggregate principal amount of bonds for which the average maturity is to be determined.
Ala. Code § 14-5-32 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-32
Section 14-5-32 Mentally or Physically Impaired Inmates to Be Periodically Examined
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-104 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-104
Section 14-6-104 Payment of Expenses of Maintenance, Etc., of Jails, Etc
Status: in_force

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 the funds of the county in which such institution is located and of the town or city if the institution is a town or city institution.
Ala. Code § 14-2-27 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-27
Section 14-2-27 Kilby Property - Lease to United States Environmental Protection Agency
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter to the contrary, the authority is authorized, in its discretion, to continue to lease to the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America approximately 11.8 acres of land, bounded on the north by Federal Drive, on the south and east by Gunter Air Force Base and on the west by Three-Mile Branch, of the Kilby property in the County of Montgomery known as the Eastern Radiological Laboratory and to give to the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America the improvements thereon consisting of four frame buildings for the purpose of maintaining and operating an environmental laboratory by said Environmental Protection Agency. Such lease is to be made upon the same terms, conditions and provisions upon which said land is presently leased; however, no such lease shall be for a term longer than the then current fiscal year of the state, but such lease may contain a grant of successive options of renewing said lease on the terms specified therein for any subsequent fiscal year or years. The authority may continue such lease for so long as the said Environmental Protection Agency maintains and operates an environmental laboratory on said land and for so long as such lease does not materially impair the security of any bonds issued by said authority.
Ala. Code § 14-6-106 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-106
Section 14-6-106 Inspection of Prisons, Convict Camps, Jails, Etc. - Authorization
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-89 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-89
Section 14-6-89 Ordering, Etc., of Return of Prisoners, Etc
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-3-39 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-39
Section 14-3-39 Guards for Female Convicts
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-19.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-19.1
Section 14-6-19.1 Treatment of Female Inmates Who Are Pregnant or in Immediate Postpartum Period
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) CUSTODIAN. A warden, sheriff, jailer, deputy sheriff, police officer, or any other law enforcement officer.

(2) HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL. A physician as defined in Section 34-24-50.1, a licensed practical nurse or a licensed professional nurse as defined in Section 34-21-1, an advanced practice nurse as defined in Section 34-21-81, or an assistant to physicians as defined in Section 34-24-290.

(3) IMMEDIATE POSTPARTUM PERIOD. The six-week period following childbirth unless extended by a health care professional due to complications.

(4) OFFICER IN CHARGE. The individual who is responsible for the supervision of a penal institution.

(5) PENAL INSTITUTION. Any place of confinement for juvenile or adult individuals accused of, convicted of, or adjudicated for violating a law of this state or an ordinance of a political subdivision of this state.

(6) PREGNANT WOMAN. A juvenile or adult female who is in the second or third trimester of pregnancy whose pregnancy has been verified by a pregnancy test as required by this section.

(b) During the initial intake medical screening, a female inmate shall inform the person conducting the screening if she is pregnant or suspects that she may be pregnant.

(c) If the female inmate informs the person conducting the screening that she suspects she may be pregnant, the female inmate shall be assessed for pregnancy by a urine pregnancy test within 72 hours of the initial medical intake screening, unless the female inmate refuses testing.

(d) A pregnant woman shall not be required to squat and cough during a strip search performed by a custodian, unless the custodian has reason to suspect that the pregnant woman is hiding contraband. In the alternative, a pregnant woman may be required to squat and cough during a strip search if the strip search is performed by a health care professional.

(e) A pregnant woman shall not be required to undergo any vaginal examination unless performed by a health care professional.

(f) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a custodian shall not use any leg or waist restraint in any of the following situations:

(1) On any pregnant woman.

(2) During labor or delivery.

(3) During the immediate postpartum period.

(g) A woman who is pregnant or in the immediate postpartum period may only be restrained using leg or wrist handcuffs with her wrists held in front of her body, and only if the custodian makes a determination that one of the following is true:

(1) The woman poses an immediate flight risk and cannot be reasonably contained by other means.

(2) The woman poses an immediate risk of harm to the unborn child, herself, staff, or others and cannot be reasonably contained by other means.

(h) If a custodian uses leg or wrist handcuffs on a woman who is in the immediate postpartum period under an exception provided in subsection (g), the circumstances for and details of the exception shall be documented within two days of the incident. The information shall include the nature of the circumstances and the length of time of the use of restraints. The documentation shall be reviewed by the officer in charge and retained by the penal institution for reporting purposes.

(i) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the use of medical restraints by a licensed health care professional to ensure the medical safety of a pregnant woman.

(j) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the placement of a woman in a cell or hospital room by herself to ensure the medical safety of the unborn child, a pregnant woman, or a woman in the immediate postpartum period.

(k) If a custodian places a woman in a cell or hospital room by herself under the exception provided in subsection (j), the circumstances for and details of the exception shall be documented within two days of the incident. The information shall include the nature of the circumstances and the length of time of the solitary confinement. The documentation shall be reviewed by the officer in charge and retained by the penal system for reporting purposes.

(l) A pregnant woman who is temporarily held in a county jail pending transfer to a state penal institution shall be transferred as expeditiously as possible.

(m) The Department of Corrections and a sheriff overseeing a county jail in which a pregnant woman is incarcerated shall make all reasonable efforts to facilitate her transfer. This subsection does not apply to a pregnant woman who has been sentenced to a county jail.
Ala. Code § 14-2-15 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-15
Section 14-2-15 Bonds - Recital, Notice and Contest of Authorizing Resolution, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) Any resolution or indenture of trust authorizing any bonds under this chapter shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, which recital shall be conclusive evidence that said bonds have been duly authorized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law now in force or hereafter enacted or amended.

(b) Upon the passage of any resolution or approval of any indenture or trust providing for the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter, the authority may, in its discretion, cause to be published once in each of two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and having general circulation in the City of Montgomery, Alabama, a notice in substantially the following form, the blanks being first properly filled in:

“Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority, an Agency of the State of Alabama, on the _____ day of _____, 20__, adopted a resolution providing for the issuance of _____ Dollars principal amount of bonds of said Authority. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of said resolution or said bonds or the pledges and agreements made in said resolution for the benefit thereof, or the proceedings under which said bonds, pledges and agreements were authorized, must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of this notice.

Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority.

(c) Any action or proceeding in any court seeking to set aside or invalidate a resolution providing for the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter or to contest the validity of any such bonds or the validity of any pledge or agreement made therefor must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of said notice. After the expiration of 20 days following such first publication, no right of action or defense founded upon the validity of the resolution, indenture of trust or other proceedings, if any, or of the bonds or of the pledges or agreements shall be asserted. In the event of such publication, the validity of such resolution, indenture of trust, proceedings, bonds, pledges or agreements shall not be open to question in any court upon any ground whatever, except in an action or proceeding commenced within such period. Any such action shall be brought in the circuit court of Montgomery County, Alabama.
Ala. Code § 14-6-11 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-11
Section 14-6-11 Summoning of Guards to Prevent Escape
Status: in_force

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, to summon as many guards as may be necessary to prevent an escape.
Ala. Code § 14-2-33 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-33
Section 14-2-33 Venue for Actions
Status: in_force

Any action to protect or enforce any rights under the provisions of this chapter shall be brought in the circuit court of Montgomery County, Alabama.
Ala. Code § 14-2-16.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-16.1
Section 14-2-16.1 Bonds - Report to Legislature; Contents
Status: in_force

The bonding authority provided herein must file a report, in concise, simple language to each legislator between the first and the twelfth legislative day of each legislative session which shall reflect the date of the issuance of the bonds, total amount of the bonds, maturity date, schedule of payments, including interest and principal, amount of attorney fees, architect fees and bond attorney fees, discount points and all other costs incurred in the issuance of and sale of the bonds herein authorized, and to what person, firm, corporation, company or other entity to which any such fees or money is to be or has been paid.
Ala. Code § 14-5-33 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-33
Section 14-5-33 Emphasis of Program on Removal of Litter from Highways, Cleaning of Unauthorized Dumps and Public Cemeteries, Etc
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-47 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-47
Section 14-6-47 Prisoner Feeding Fund; Mutual Agreements; Forms for Records; Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

(a) The Prisoner Feeding Fund is established in the office of each sheriff. Except as provided in subsection (b), all state monies received in the sheriff’s office for food and services in preparing food, serving food, and other services incident to the feeding of prisoners in the county jail shall be deposited in the Prisoner Feeding Fund and shall be kept separate from all other monies. Monies deposited in the Prisoner Feeding Fund shall only be used for feeding prisoners except as provided in this section. At the conclusion of each fiscal year, the sheriff may expend not more than 25 percent of the unencumbered balance in the fund on jail operation or for law enforcement purposes related to the operation of the office of the sheriff, and the remainder shall be retained in the fund for feeding expenses in the next fiscal year, or at the option of the sheriff, the entire unencumbered balance may be retained in the fund for feeding expenses in the next fiscal year. In no event shall any monies paid into the fund be expended except as authorized in this chapter.

(b)(1) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the sheriff and the county commission from entering into mutual agreements to carry out the requirements of this chapter. Any mutual agreements shall not supersede Section 14-6-40 or exempt any funds or expenditures from audit as required by this chapter nor authorize any of the funds deposited into a prisoner feeding fund or other account for feeding prisoners to be converted into personal income for any public official or employee.

(2) Nothing in this chapter shall require a change in procedures in those counties where funds for the feeding of prisoners are paid into the general fund of the county pursuant to resolution authorized under Section 36-22-17, as it existed prior to August 1, 2019.

(c) All records related to payments received and expenditures made for food preparation and the feeding of prisoners in the county jail shall be kept by the sheriff’s office on forms prescribed by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts and shall be subject to regular audit.

(d) All funds held by the sheriff on August 1, 2019, that were reimbursed by the State of Alabama or any other governmental entity for the feeding of prisoners in a county jail shall be deposited into the Prisoner Feeding Fund. No funds deposited into the Prisoner Feeding Fund or any other monies received by the sheriff for feeding of federal or municipal prisoners shall be converted into personal income for any public official or employee under any circumstances.
Ala. Code § 14-3-54 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-54
Section 14-3-54 Inquiry into Management and Treatment of Convicts
Status: in_force

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 the board may administer the oath of office to guards and employees and may administer oaths as to the correctness of any account or statement in regard to the prison system.
Ala. Code § 14-8-37 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-37
Section 14-8-37 Disposition of Earnings of Inmates
Status: in_force

The employer of an inmate involved in work release pursuant to this article shall send the inmate’s wages directly to the county or its designated agent. Of each inmate’s earnings, 25 percent of his gross wages shall be applied to the costs incident to the inmate’s confinement. If the cost of confinement of a state inmate as agreed upon in the maintenance contract authorized in Section 14-8-31 exceeds 25 percent of his gross wages, the board shall pay the difference to the county. The remainder of the inmate’s wages shall be credited to his account with the county and shall be paid out as the inmate requests to furnish his clothing, medical and dental care, spending money, savings or dependent support.
Ala. Code § 14-3-2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-2
Section 14-3-2 State Lands - Sale and Purchase; Appropriations for Purchase
Status: in_force

(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 credit, as may seem best, and purchase lands superior in quality to be used by the board in working convicts.

(b) So much of the funds earned by the board as may be necessary is appropriated and authorized to be paid for such lands as may be purchased under subsection (a) of this section, and the Comptroller, upon the application of the board, shall draw his warrant for such sum, or sums, as may be necessary for such purchase of such lands and the payment thereof.
Ala. Code § 14-3-14 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-14
Section 14-3-14 Officers and Guards - Powers of Policemen
Status: in_force

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 a disturbance near the prison and take him before any magistrate of the county, by whom he may be fined $10 and the costs.
Ala. Code § 14-8-5 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-5
Section 14-8-5 Inmate Not Deemed Agent, Etc., of Board of Corrections
Status: in_force

No inmate granted privileges under the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be an agent, employee or involuntary servant of the board while involved in the free community or while going to and from employment, or other specified areas.
Ala. Code § 14-7-6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-6
Section 14-7-6 Short Title
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the “Prison-Made Goods Act of Alabama.”
Ala. Code § 14-3-11 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-11
Section 14-3-11 Transmission of Reports to Legislature
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70, §1(26), effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-90 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-90
Section 14-6-90 Penalty for Refusal to Obey Orders of Board of Corrections
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-9-68 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-68
Section 14-9-68 Rulemaking Authority
Status: in_force

The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall adopt rules to implement and administer this article.
Ala. Code § 14-3-35 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-35
Section 14-3-35 Information Regarding Convict; Search of Convict’s Baggage and Person
Status: in_force

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, color of his hair and eyes, fingerprints, photograph, the place of his birth, the county in which he was convicted, the nature of the crime and the period of imprisonment, all of which, together with the statement of the time when such convict was received, must be entered upon a permanent record. The baggage and person of every convict must be carefully searched, and every instrument by which he may effect his escape shall be taken therefrom.
Ala. Code § 14-3-43 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-43
Section 14-3-43 Removal of Convicts - Disease or Other Urgent Necessity
Status: in_force

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 the prevalence of any epidemic, infectious or contagious disease or any other urgent necessity may render such removal proper, taking all necessary precautions to insure the safekeeping of the convicts and to prevent escape when removed.
Ala. Code § 14-6-103 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-103
Section 14-6-103 Size, Etc., of Jails, Etc
Status: in_force

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 must contain separate apartments for men and for women. It shall be fireproof, properly ventilated, sufficiently lighted by day and night, adequately heated and contain adequate sanitary plumbing and sewerage connections.
Ala. Code § 14-5-37 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-37
Section 14-5-37 Article Does Not Authorize Commissioner to Reduce Sentence
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-83 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-83
Section 14-6-83 Power to Condemn Jails
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-9-67 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-67
Section 14-9-67 Quarterly Reports
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to any reporting requirements under existing law, the Department of Corrections shall provide to the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee quarterly reports, including all of the following:

(1) The number of prisoners who are eligible to receive education incentive time for participation in qualifying programs.

(2) The number of prisoners eligible to receive education incentive time who participate in a qualifying program.

(3) The number of prisoners eligible to receive education incentive time who complete or fail to complete a qualifying program.

(4) The recidivism rate for prisoners who successfully complete a qualifying program before release.

(5) The post-release outcomes, including employment, of prisoners who successfully complete a qualifying program before release.

(b) In addition to any reporting requirements under existing law, the Board of Pardons and Paroles shall provide the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee quarterly reports detailing the outcomes of parole hearings of prisoners who have received education incentive time.
Ala. Code § 14-7-20 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-20
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
Status: in_force

All moneys collected by the Board of Corrections from the sale or disposition of articles and products manufactured or produced by prison labor in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, shall be forthwith deposited with the State Treasurer to be kept and maintained in the Industrial Revolving Fund authorized by this chapter, and such moneys so collected and deposited shall be used solely for the purchase of raw materials, manufacturing supplies, equipment, machinery and buildings used to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and to otherwise defray the necessary expenses incident thereto, including the employment of such necessary supervisory personnel as is unavailable in the prison inmate population, all of which shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Corrections; provided, however, that the Industrial Revolving Fund shall never be maintained in excess of the amount necessary to carry out efficiently and properly the intentions of this chapter. When, in the opinion of the Governor and the Legislature the Industrial Revolving Fund has reached a sum in excess of the requirements of this chapter, such excess shall be transferred by the Board of Corrections to the State General Fund.
Ala. Code § 14-3-60 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-60
Section 14-3-60 Spirituous and Intoxicating Liquors
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-11-32 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Section 14-11-32
Section 14-11-32 Construction with Other Laws
Status: in_force

This article shall not be construed to repeal other criminal laws. Whenever conduct proscribed by any provision of this article is also proscribed by any other provision of law, the provision which carries the more serious penalty shall be applied.
Ala. Code § 14-3-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-3
Section 14-3-3 State Lands - Improvements
Status: in_force

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 benefit of the prison system and enable it to work such convicts as it may think proper at farming or other employments.
Ala. Code § 14-4-13 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-13
Section 14-4-13 Superintendent of Public Works - Duties
Status: in_force

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) To see that the convicts committed to him labor faithfully;

(3) Not to overwork or maltreat the convicts;

(4) To see that the food and clothing delivered to him for the convicts are given to them at the proper time;

(5) To see that they are properly housed in inclement weather;

(6) To have proper medicine and medical attention bestowed on them when necessary; and

(7) Not voluntarily or negligently to permit them to escape.
Ala. Code § 14-3-1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-1
Section 14-3-1 Duties of Board of Corrections Generally
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70. §1(24), effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-2-22 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-22
Section 14-2-22 Bonds - Enforcement Upon Default
Status: in_force

If there be any default by the authority in the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or in any of the agreements on the part of the authority which may properly be included in any resolution or indenture of trust securing such bonds, any holder of any of the bonds or the trustee for the bondholders under any resolution or indenture of trust, if so authorized therein, may, by an action, mandamus or other proceedings, enforce payment of such items and foreclosure upon any mortgage or security interest granted as security for such bonds and compel performance of all duties of the directors and officers of the authority and shall be entitled, as a matter of right and regardless of the sufficiency of any such security or the availability of any other remedy, to the appointment of a receiver with all the power of such receiver for the maintenance, insurance and leasing of the facilities and property covered by such resolution or such indenture of trust and the collection and application of the receipts therefrom. Any such resolution or indenture of trust may contain provisions regarding the rights and remedies of any trustee thereunder and the holders of the bonds and may contain provisions restricting the individual rights of action of the holders of the bonds.
Ala. Code § 14-6-107 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-107
Section 14-6-107 Inspection of Prisons, Convict Camps, Jails, Etc. - Powers and Effect of Orders of Board of Corrections
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-15-10 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Section 14-15-10
Section 14-15-10 Actions Concerning Prison Conditions; Prisoner Release Orders
Status: in_force

(a) In any civil action with respect to prison conditions, no prisoner release order shall be entered unless both of the following are satisfied:

(1) A court has previously entered an order for less intrusive relief that has failed to remedy the deprivation of the right sought to be remedied through the prisoner release order.

(2) The defendant has had a reasonable amount of time to comply with the previous court orders.

(b) In any civil action in state court with respect to prison conditions, a prisoner release order shall be entered by a three-judge court, if the requirements of subsection (f) have been met.

(c) In any action required to be heard and determined by a court of three judges, the composition and procedure of the court shall be as follows:

(1) Upon the filing of a request for three judges, the judge to whom the request is presented shall immediately notify the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who shall designate an active or retired district or circuit judge in good standing, and the presiding judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who shall designate an active or retired district or circuit judge in good standing. The judges so designated, and the judge to whom the request was presented, shall serve as members of the court to hear and determine the action or proceeding.

(2) A single judge may conduct all proceedings except the trial and enter all orders permitted by the Rules of Civil Procedure except as provided in this subsection. The judge may grant a temporary restraining order on a specific finding, based on evidence submitted, that specified irreparable damage will result if the order is not granted. An order, unless previously revoked by the circuit judge, shall remain in force only until the hearing and determination by the circuit court of three judges of an application for a preliminary injunction. A single judge shall not appoint a master, order a reference, hear and determine any application for a preliminary or permanent injunction or motion to vacate the injunction, or enter judgment on the merits. Any action of a single judge may be reviewed by the full court at any time before final judgment.

(d) A party seeking a prisoner release order in state court shall file with any request for such relief a request for a three-judge court and materials sufficient to demonstrate that the requirements of subsection (a) have been met.

(e) If the requirements under subsection (a) have been met, a judge before whom a civil action with respect to prison conditions is pending who believes that a prison release order should be considered may sua sponte request the convening of a three-judge court to determine whether a prisoner release order should be entered.

(f) The three-judge court shall enter a prisoner release order only if the court finds clear and convincing evidence of both of the following:

(1) Crowding is the primary cause of the violation of a right.

(2) No other relief will remedy the violation of the right.

(g) Any state unit of government whose jurisdiction or function includes the appropriation of funds for the construction, operation, or maintenance of program facilities, or the prosecution or custody of persons who may be released from, or not admitted to, a prison as a result of a prisoner release order shall have standing to oppose the imposition or continuation in effect of such relief and to seek termination of such relief, and shall have the right to intervene in any proceeding relating to such relief.
Ala. Code § 14-1-13 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-13
Section 14-1-13 Fiscal Year; Annual Report; Periodic Recommendations
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-2-11 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-11
Section 14-2-11 Execution of Bonds and Notes
Status: in_force

The bonds and notes of the authority shall be executed by the manual or facsimile signature of either its president or its treasurer, as shall be provided in the resolution under which such securities shall be issued, and the seal of the authority or a facsimile thereof shall be affixed to any bonds so issued and attested by its secretary; provided, that if bonds are executed entirely by facsimile, such bonds shall be authenticated by the manual signature of the bond trustee, registrar or paying agent. If, after any of the bonds shall be so signed, whether manually or by facsimile, any such officer shall for any reason vacate his said office, the bonds so signed may nevertheless be delivered at any time thereafter as the act and deed of the authority.
Ala. Code § 14-1-15 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-15
Section 14-1-15 Duties, Authority, Property, Rights, Etc., of Board of Corrections Vested in Governor
Status: in_force

All duties, responsibilities, authority, power, assets, liabilities, property, funds, appropriations, contractual rights and obligations, property rights and personnel, whether accruing or vested, by operation or by law and which are not in conflict with Sections 14-1-15 through 14-1-17 and which are presently vested in the Board of Corrections under Title 14, Chapters 1 through 12, as amended, and by any other laws or parts of laws of this state, are hereby vested in the Governor of the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 14-7-17 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-17
Section 14-7-17 Reports of Annual Audits by State Auditor
Status: in_force

In addition to the information ordinarily required by law in the annual audits of expenditures and operations of the Board of Corrections made by the State Auditor, after August 13, 1976 such annual audit reports shall also include a detailed statement of all materials, machinery or other property procured and the cost thereof, the expenditures made during the audited year for manufacturing purposes together with a statement of all materials on hand to be manufactured or in process of manufacture or manufactured, the values of all machinery, fixtures or other appurtenances for the purpose of utilizing the productive labor of prisoners and the earnings realized therefrom during the year.
Ala. Code § 14-3-34 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-34
Section 14-3-34 Detention of Convict En Route
Status: in_force

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 safely keep such convict for the legal charge of feeding prisoners whenever such officer may deem it necessary to have him secured for the night or for any longer time they may be necessarily detained.
Ala. Code § 14-3-15 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-15
Section 14-3-15 Officers and Guards - Pursuit and Arrest of Escaped Convicts
Status: in_force

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. He may use such force or means as may be required under the circumstances to prevent the convict’s escape by flight or to overcome his resistance. He shall have the same authority as a sheriff to summon persons to assist in making such arrest or to protect such convict from any violence after arrest.
Ala. Code § 14-11-30 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Section 14-11-30
Section 14-11-30 Definitions
Status: in_force

When used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1) CUSTODY. Any of the following:

a. Pretrial incarceration or detention.

b. Incarceration or detention under a sentence or commitment to a state or local penal institution, any detention facility for children or youthful offenders.

c. Parole or mandatory supervised release.

d. Electronic home detention.

e. Parole or probation.

(2) EMPLOYEE. An employee or contractual employee of any governmental agency of the state, county, or municipality that has by statute, ordinance, or court order the responsibility for the care, control, or supervision of pretrial or sentenced persons in a penal system or detention facility.

(3) SEXUAL CONDUCT. Any of the following acts:

a. Sexual intercourse. This term shall have its ordinary meaning and occurs upon a penetration, however slight; emission is not required.

b. Sexual contact. Any known touching for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse of the following:

1. The sexual or other intimate parts of the victim by the actor.

2. The sexual or other intimate parts of the actor by the victim.

3. The clothing covering the immediate area of the sexual or other intimate parts of the victim or actor.

c. Sexual intrusion. Any intrusion, however slight, by any object or any part of the body of a person into the genital, anal, or oral opening of the body of another person if that sexual intrusion can reasonably be construed as being for the purposes of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse.
Ala. Code § 14-1-21 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-21
Section 14-1-21 Costs of Health Care Reimbursed to County; Per Diem for Housing and Care
Status: in_force

(a)(1) Counties are not financially responsible for the cost of health care provided to a parolee or probationer charged with, or sanctioned or revoked for, a parole or probation violation.

(2) The county may submit an invoice to the Department of Corrections for reimbursement of the county’s cost of health care administered outside the county jail and actual costs of any care administered in the county jail. Invoices must be paid by the department within 60 days of the receipt of the invoice.

(b)(1)a. The Department of Corrections shall pay a county jail housing and caring for parolees and probationers charged with, or sanctioned or revoked for, a parole or probation violation a per diem of twenty-eight dollars ($28) per day the parolee or probationer is housed in the county jail.

b. Every three years the rate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance using the Consumer Price Index for the previous three years.

(2) The county may submit an invoice to the Department of Corrections for payment of the per diem provided in subdivision (1). Invoices must be paid by the department within 60 days of the receipt of the invoice.

(c)(1) If, after 60 days of receipt of an invoice, the Department of Corrections has failed to pay for the health care of parolees and probationers as required in subsection (a), or has failed to pay the per diem as required in subsection (b), a county may file a claim with the Board of Adjustment.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Adjustment shall hear any claim filed by any county pursuant to this subsection within 45 days of the filing of a claim.
Ala. Code § 14-6-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-3
Section 14-6-3 Who May Be Confined in County Jail
Status: in_force

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.
Ala. Code § 14-3-59 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-59
Section 14-3-59 Posting of Regulations and Code Provisions on Escapes
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-10-2 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 10 / Section 14-10-2
Section 14-10-2 Additional Cash Payment Upon Release; Determination of Inmates Requiring Same; Waiver
Status: in_force

In addition to the cash, transportation and clothes to be furnished to state inmates, as provided in Section 14-10-1 upon their lawful discharge from custody, there shall be allowed and paid to each such inmate whose time in custody does not exceed five years the sum of $10 in cash and to each such inmate whose time in custody exceeds five years the sum of $10 plus an additional sum in cash at the rate of $2 per annum for each additional year or fractional part of a year of not less than six months of actual time in custody after conviction. Said additional allowances and payments may be made as cash allowances and payments are made under existing laws. The Department of Corrections shall determine those state inmates who require these payments and shall use the regulations and criteria established in accordance with Section 14-10-1 to make this determination. No payment shall be made to any state inmate whom the Department of Corrections has reasonably determined does not require such payment. Any state inmate may waive receipt of this payment. Each state inmate shall receive this payment only once per offense and multiple offenses being served consecutively or concurrently shall for this purpose be considered one offense.
Ala. Code § 14-3-36 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-36
Section 14-3-36 Taking Charge of Convict’s Effects
Status: in_force

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 any convict at the time of the delivery of such convict to him and shall pay or deliver the same to such person as the convict may in writing direct, to the convict on his discharge or to his personal representative in case of his death previous thereto, and should no personal representative be appointed within six months after his death, then into the State Treasury.
Ala. Code § 14-6-60 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-60
Section 14-6-60 Removal of Tubercular Prisoners to State Hospital
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-4 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-4
Section 14-6-4 Duty to Receive and Keep Federal Prisoners
Status: in_force

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 offense against the United States and safely keep such prisoner, according to the order or process of commitment, until duly discharged by law; and he is liable to the same penalties for the escape of such prisoner as for the escape of a prisoner committed under the authority of this state.
Ala. Code § 14-9-64 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-64
Section 14-9-64 Deduction of Sentence Upon Completion of Qualifying Programs in Certain Circumstances
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subsections (e) and (f), a prisoner serving a term of incarceration in a Department of Corrections facility, or a facility leased by the department, may earn a deduction from the term of his or her sentence for successfully completing a qualifying program, known as education incentive time.

(b) A prisoner may not receive more than a total of 12 months of education incentive time during any term of incarceration.

(c) Deductions from a prisoner’s term of incarceration based on education incentive time shall be in addition to any other available sentence deductions, including, but not limited to, correctional incentive time awarded pursuant to Section 14-9-41.

(d) A prisoner may not receive education incentive time for the completion of any qualifying program that was completed prior to the beginning of the term of incarceration.

(e) A prisoner may not receive the benefit of education incentive time if any of the following occur:

(1) He or she has been sentenced to death.

(2) He or she has been sentenced to a term of life imprisonment.

(3) He or she has been convicted of a violent offense, as provided in Section 12-25-32, that is classified as a Class A or Class B felony.

(4) He or she has been convicted of a sex offense as provided in Section 15-20A-5.

(5) He or she is serving a term of confinement pursuant to Section 15-18-8.
Ala. Code § 14-7-19 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-19
Section 14-7-19 Authorization of Industrial Revolving Fund and Expenditures Therefrom
Status: in_force

In order to carry out the provisions of this chapter, the Legislature shall authorize in its annual appropriations an Industrial Revolving Fund and set the amount therein for the use of the Board of Corrections. The board is authorized to expend such moneys out of appropriations for said revolving fund as may be necessary to erect buildings, improve existing facilities, purchase equipment, procure tools, supplies and materials, purchase, install or replace equipment and otherwise defray the necessary expenses incident to the employment of prisoners as provided in this chapter.
Ala. Code § 14-5-35 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-35
Section 14-5-35 Exemptions
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-3-45 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-45
Section 14-3-45 Diet
Status: in_force

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 wholesome.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-38 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-38
Section 14-6A-38 Dissolution
Status: in_force

At any time when a regional jail authority has no bonds or other obligations outstanding, its board may by affirmative vote of a majority of its members, and with the prior approval of the city council of each municipality participating in the regional jail authority, adopt a resolution declaring its intent that the authority shall be dissolved. Written notice of intent to dissolve shall be immediately delivered to the municipal council of each municipality participating in the regional jail authority. Dissolution shall not take place less than 60 days following the written notice. At the expiration of 60 days and upon the filing for record of a certified copy of the dissolution resolution in the office of the judge of probate of the municipality in which the authority’s certificate of incorporation was filed, the authority shall thereupon stand dissolved and, in the event it owned any property at the time of its dissolution, the title to all its property shall thereupon pass to and be divided and apportioned among the municipalities included in the authority.
Ala. Code § 14-3-53 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-53
Section 14-3-53 Shackles and Chains
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-1-23 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-23
Section 14-1-23 Application and Memorandum of Agreement for County Jails; Procedures; Liability Coverage
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of establishing consenting county jails for the housing and care of parolees and probationers pursuant to Sections 15-22-32 and 15-22-54, the Department of Corrections, in consultation with the Alabama Sheriffs’ Association and the Association of County Commissions of Alabama, shall develop an application and a standard memorandum of agreement to be used by county commissions and sheriffs who agree to provide housing and care to parolees and probationers who have been charged with, or sanctioned or revoked for, a parole or probation violation.

(b) The application shall include, but is not limited to, both of the following:

(1) A determination of the number of excess beds available in the county jail, based on the evaluation of the inmate census and the available occupied beds in the jail during the previous 12-month period.

(2) A determination of the daily cost of housing and caring for prisoners in the county jail during the previous 12-month period. This amount shall be in addition to the cost of providing health care services.

(c)(1) A county commission that, with the consent of the sheriff, elects to provide for the housing and care of parole and probation violators, pursuant to Sections 15-22-32 and 15-22-54, shall submit an application to the Department of Corrections, submit to an inspection of the county jail by the department to determine its ability to house inmates and to provide for their housing and care, and provide any other documentation and information required by the department.

(2) The department shall review all applications annually and shall select the county jails for participation in the program. Any county jail selected for participation shall enter into a memorandum of agreement with the department for the services.

(3) The department shall select at least one county jail located in the northern region, one county jail located in the central region, and one county jail located in the southern region of the state.

(d)(1) Memoranda of agreement shall be for 12 months and may be renewed for up to two additional 12-month periods following an inspection and application as required in subsections (b) and (c).

(2) The memorandum of agreement shall require the department to provide for the cost of health care for parolees and probationers and to provide a per diem for each parolee and probationer as provided in Section 14-1-21.

(3) The memorandum of agreement shall provide for the reimbursement to the county for any increased costs of liability insurance premiums that are required by its insurance carrier for coverage attributed to the housing of inmates pursuant to this section.

(4) The memorandum of agreement shall establish a process for the submittal of monthly payments to the participating counties upon receipt of required documentation.

(e) Procedures for the transfer or release of parolees and probationers at the end of confinement for violations and other procedures necessary to efficiently implement this section shall be established by the department, in consultation with the Alabama Sheriffs’ Association and the Association of County Commissions of Alabama.

(f) Any county that elects to provide for the housing and care of parole and probation violators pursuant to this section, and is participating in the liability self-insurance fund established pursuant to Chapter 30 of Title 11, shall be eligible for the liability self-insurance fund’s coverage for any claims arising out of the housing and care of parole and probation violators.
Ala. Code § 14-6-94 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-94
Section 14-6-94 Prisoners to Be Compelled to Bathe
Status: in_force

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 bathe their persons when entering jail and at least once each week while confined therein.
Ala. Code § 14-5-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 14-5-7
Section 14-5-7 Work on Drains or Drainage Districts by State Convicts
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-11-51 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Section 14-11-51
Section 14-11-51 Confiscation of Devices; Notice
Status: in_force

(a) If a person visiting an inmate in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections, upon being searched or subjected to a metal detector, is found to be in possession of a cellular telephone, wireless communication device, or a computer communication system that allows the input, output, examination, or transfer of computer programs from one computer to another person, that device or computer shall be subject to confiscation.

(b) Notice of this provision shall be posted in each area where visitors are searched prior to visitation with an inmate in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Ala. Code § 14-15-6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Section 14-15-6
Section 14-15-6 Service Requirements
Status: in_force

(a) In any pro se action in which any defendant is the State of Alabama or one of its officers, employees, or agents, upon the grant of in forma pauperis status or receipt of the filing fee and costs, the prisoner shall serve the office of the Attorney General with a copy of the motion for judgment and all necessary supporting papers. Additionally, if the pro se action named the department or any of its officials, employees, or agents as a respondent or defendant, the prisoner shall also serve the Legal Division of the department with a copy of the action. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to eliminate the prisoner’s duty under the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure to personally serve individual defendants or respondents named as parties.

(b) The office of the Attorney General or the department shall file responsive pleadings within 60 days of receipt of the notice.

(c) A pro se prisoner’s failure to state his or her claims in a written motion for judgment plainly stating facts sufficient to support his or her cause of action, accompanied by all necessary supporting documentation, may be grounds for dismissal of the action.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-33 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-33
Section 14-6A-33 Facility to Serve as Municipal Jail; Employees; Duty of Superintendent
Status: in_force

(a) After a regional jail facility is operational, the facility shall serve as the municipal jail for each municipality participating in the regional jail authority. Each municipality shall retain its authority regarding the custody and transportation of prisoners from the municipality and may cause the removal of any prisoner from the regional jail facility for any purpose authorized by law. The superintendent of the regional jail facility and all jail personnel shall be employees of the regional jail authority unless the facility is maintained and operated by a privately owned jail management firm. The superintendent shall be selected by the mayor members of the board of directors and shall serve at their pleasure. The superintendent, according to written policies and procedures adopted by the mayor members of the board of directors, shall have and exercise control and authority over prisoners committed or transferred to the regional jail facility while housed in the facility and shall supervise all jail officers and other employees assigned to the facility.

(b) Upon resolution of the municipality, any municipality participating in a regional jail authority may continue to keep operational the jail in its municipality for the limited purpose of temporarily housing prisoners as necessary while awaiting arraignment or other hearing or as otherwise deemed necessary by the mayor of the municipality.
Ala. Code § 14-6-6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-6
Section 14-6-6 Commitment to Nearest Sufficient Jail to Insure Safekeeping
Status: in_force

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 that the jail of the proper county is insecure or insufficient for the safekeeping of the prisoner or that there is no jail in the county, the commitment must be to the nearest sufficient jail and the reason of such change must be entered on the minutes of the court, or stated in the warrant or endorsed thereon and signed by the magistrate. The jailer of the county to which the commitment is made must receive and confine the prisoner on such commitment or a certified copy of such order.
Ala. Code § 14-1-4.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-4.1
Section 14-1-4.1 Perry County Facility Employment and Appointments
Status: in_force

Upon the acquisition of the Perry County Facility by the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority, as provided in Chapter 2, the Department of Corrections shall employ all otherwise eligible employees below the rank of captain, through provisional appointments, persons who were employees of the Perry County Facility at the time of acquisition as the department deems necessary and appropriate. All subsequent appointments and employment of persons shall be pursuant to the Merit System Act of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 14-1-9 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-9
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
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70, §1(22), effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-9-65 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-9-65
Section 14-9-65 Reporting of Education Incentive Time
Status: in_force

(a) Any education incentive time awarded by the department to a prisoner shall be reported by the department to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall apply education incentive time to advance the initial consideration date and any tentative parole review date already established for the prisoner. The board shall consider the education incentive time when making a final parole release decision of the prisoner.

(b) The department shall report to the Board of Pardons and Paroles when a prisoner, who is capable of participating in a qualifying program, declines or refuses to participate in a qualifying program.
Ala. Code § 14-2-5 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-5
Section 14-2-5 Incorporation by State Officials - Certificate of Incorporation
Status: in_force

When the application has been made, filed and recorded as provided in Section 14-2-4, the Secretary of State shall make and issue to the applicants a certificate of incorporation pursuant to this chapter, under the great seal of the state, and shall record the certificate with the application, whereupon the applicants shall constitute a public corporation and agency of the state under the name proposed in the application.
Ala. Code § 14-15-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Section 14-15-7
Section 14-15-7 Oral Arguments; Subpoenas; Discovery
Status: in_force

(a) Oral argument on any motion in any prisoner pro se civil action shall be heard orally only at the request of the court. Whenever possible, the court shall rule upon the record before it.

(b) No pro se prisoner shall be permitted to request subpoenas for witnesses or documents, or file discovery requests, until the court has ruled upon any motion to dismiss or other dispositive motion.

(c) Where a pro se case proceeds past the initial dispositive motion phase, the court shall require the prisoner seeking discovery to demonstrate that his or her requests are relevant and material to the issues in the case.

(d)(1) No subpoena for witnesses or documents shall be issued unless a judge of the court has reviewed the subpoena request and specifically authorized a subpoena to be issued.

(2) The court shall exercise its discretion in determining the scope of the subpoena and may condition its issuance on such terms as the court finds appropriate.

(3) The court shall take into account the burden placed upon the object of the subpoena in relation to the needs of the case, the amount in controversy, and the importance of the issues at stake in the litigation.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-7
Section 14-6A-7 Tax Exemptions
Status: in_force

The property and income of the regional jail authority, all bonds issued by the authority, the income from the bonds, conveyances by or to the authority, and leases, mortgages, and deeds of trust by or to the authority shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama. The authority shall be exempt from all taxes levied by any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state, including, but not limited to, license and excise taxes imposed in respect of the privilege of engaging in any of the activities in which the authority may engage. The authority shall not be obligated to pay or allow any fees, taxes, or costs to the judge of probate of any county in respect of its incorporation, the amendment of its certificate of incorporation, or the recording of any document.
Ala. Code § 14-3-55 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-55
Section 14-3-55 Comments on Prison Management in Presence of Convicts
Status: in_force

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 the management of any prison in the presence of any convict except to direct him in his duty or to admonish him for delinquency.
Ala. Code § 14-15-5 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Section 14-15-5
Section 14-15-5 In Forma Pauperis Statuts
Status: in_force

(a)(1) A prisoner seeking in forma pauperis status shall provide the court with a certified copy of his or her prisoner money account for the preceding 12 months.

(2) Any prisoner granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis shall repay any filing fees and pay any taxed costs by making monthly installments, until fully paid, equal to 20 percent of the prisoner’s average monthly prisoner money balance for the prior 12 months, or a similarly determined amount if 12 months of account activity is not available.

(3) If the court determines the prisoner has had no deposits in his or her inmate trust account for the preceding 12 months, the court shall permit the prisoner to proceed without paying the filing fee and costs.

(4) In cases where in forma pauperis status is granted, the filing fee of a pro se civil action shall be taxed to the prisoner at the end of the case. The taxing of costs against a non-prevailing prisoner shall be at the court’s discretion.

(5) Any prisoner failing to make any payment when due shall have his or her case dismissed without prejudice.

(b) The court shall deny in forma pauperis status to any prisoner who has had three or more pro se civil actions or appeals dismissed by any federal or state court for being frivolous, malicious, or for failure to state a claim, unless the prisoner shows that he or she is in imminent danger of serious physical injury at the time of filing his or her motion for judgment, or the court determines that it would be manifest injustice to deny in forma pauperis.
Ala. Code § 14-8-38 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-38
Section 14-8-38 Eligibility of Inmates for Good Time Credit
Status: in_force

County inmates employed under this article shall be eligible for good time credit in the same manner as other inmates confined or detained in the county jail or other county correctional facility. State inmates so employed shall be eligible for good time credit in the same manner as other inmates confined or detained in state prisons or other state correctional facilities.
Ala. Code § 14-8-35 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 8 / Section 14-8-35
Section 14-8-35 Conditions as to Employment of Inmates
Status: in_force

The board and the county shall endeavor to secure employment for eligible inmates under this article, subject to the following conditions:

(1) Such employment must be at a wage at least as high as the prevailing wage for similar work in the area or community where the work is performed and in accordance with the prevailing working conditions in such an area;

(2) Such employment shall not result in the displacement of employed workers;

(3) Inmates eligible for work release shall not be employed as strikebreakers or in impairing any existing contracts;

(4) Exploitation of eligible prisoners in any form is prohibited, either as it might affect the community, the inmates, the board or the county.
Ala. Code § 14-1-14 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-14
Section 14-1-14 Corrections Revolving Fund
Status: in_force

There is hereby created from the board’s general operating funds, for the use and benefit of the board, a fund in the amount of $40,000.00 to be known as the Corrections Revolving Fund. The purpose of said fund shall be to pay certain expenses at the general office of the board and at the prisons and institutions under its supervision and control. The Commissioner of Corrections or the chief accountant of the board, upon authorization by the board, shall be the custodian of said fund and shall authorize, approve or certify all withdrawals and expenditures from said fund. Reimbursement to this fund shall be made by voucher by the commissioner or chief accountant, upon which the comptroller shall issue his warrant. The commissioner shall be authorized to make such expense advances from said fund to transfer agents and other employees as he deems proper. He shall be authorized to set aside such amounts as he deems necessary to the various prisons and institutions under his supervision for allowances to prisoners and for general administrative uses in such institutions. Expenditures from said fund shall be budgeted and allotted pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41. All refunds to the Corrections Revolving Fund, as established by this section, shall be made from the board’s general operating fund.
Ala. Code § 14-15-9 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 15 / Section 14-15-9
Section 14-15-9 Damages
Status: in_force

(a) Damages awarded to a prisoner in connection with a pro se civil action brought against any prison or against any official or agent of such prison shall be paid directly to satisfy any outstanding restitution orders pending against the prisoner. Any remaining amounts shall be forwarded to the prisoner.

(b) Prior to payment of any damages, reasonable efforts shall be made to notify the victims of the crime for which the prisoner was convicted and incarcerated concerning the pending payment of any damages.
Ala. Code § 14-1-18 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 14-1-18
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
Status: reserved

REPEALED IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2018-152 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.
Ala. Code § 14-4-6 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 4 / Section 14-4-6
Section 14-4-6 Work on Public Roads - Rules and Regulations
Status: in_force

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 working the public roads of the county, it may so work them under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Corrections, which shall be uniform throughout the state for working county convicts on the public roads.
Ala. Code § 14-11-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 11 / Section 14-11-3
Section 14-11-3 Failure of Witness to Appear or Testify on Management and Treatment of Convicts
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6A-3 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6A / Section 14-6A-3
Section 14-6A-3 Board of Directors
Status: in_force

(a) The regional jail authority shall be governed by a board of directors composed of the following:

(1) Two members appointed by the county commission of the most populous county, one of whom may be a member of the county commission.

(2) One member from each of the remaining counties appointed by the county commission of each respective county, which board member may be a member of the county commission.

(3) The sheriff of each county.

(b) Except with regard to the sheriffs, the members of the board of directors of the authority shall serve at the pleasure of the county commission appointing them.
Ala. Code § 14-6-100 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-100
Section 14-6-100 Probate Judge to Furnish Grand Jury Report to Board of Corrections
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-2-1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-1
Section 14-2-1 Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

(2) COMMISSION. The Building Commission created by Section 41-9-140 and its successors as the state agency for awarding construction contracts and supervising construction.

(3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Corrections created by Section 14-1-1.1 and its successors as the state agency responsible for supervising and controlling the operation of the correctional institutions of the state.

(4) ESCAMBIA MEN’S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility, including all real property, buildings, and improvements, designed to house at least 4,000 male inmates and with intake capability, to be located on land owned by the state or the authority as of December 1, 2020, in Escambia County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)a.

(5) STATE. The State of Alabama.

(6) BONDS. The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter.

(7) FACILITIES. Such term includes any one or more of the following:

a. Prisons;

b. Buildings and enclosures for housing, containing, or supervising prisoners; and

c. Any facilities necessary or useful in connection with prisons, buildings, or enclosures, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hospitals, offices, correctional officers’ quarters and residences, warehouses, garages, storage facilities, abattoirs, cold storage plants, canning plants, laundries, and manufacturing plants , educational and other programming facilities, medical, mental health, and other health care facilities, and substance abuse and addiction treatment facilities.

(8) KILBY PROPERTY. Such term includes all of the real property commonly referred to as Kilby prison property, embracing not only the real property owned by the state on which Kilby prison is located, but also all real property owned by the state used in connection with Kilby prison and adjacent thereto, all located in sections 2, 3, 10, 11, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, and 35 in township 17, range 18 in Montgomery County, Alabama, together with all personal property owned by the state and used in connection with Kilby prison and the real property adjacent thereto.

(9) PERRY COUNTY FACILITY. The Perry County Correctional Center, including all real property, buildings, and improvements located at the facility in Perry County.

(10) SPECIALIZED MEN’S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility, including all real property, buildings, and improvements, designed to house at least 4,000 male inmates, with intake capability, and with designated space for enhanced medical, mental health, and other health care, substance abuse and addiction treatment, and educational and other programming services to inmates, to be located on land owned by the state or the authority as of December 1, 2020, in Elmore County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)a.

(11) WOMEN’S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility designed to house at least 1,000 female inmates to be located on land owned by the state or the authority in Elmore County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)b.1.
Ala. Code § 14-6-98 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-98
Section 14-6-98 Monthly Report to Board of Corrections
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Ala. Code § 14-6-21 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 6 / Section 14-6-21
Section 14-6-21 Allowing Jail, Etc., to Become Foul or Unclean
Status: in_force

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 the same to become foul or unclean shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100.
Ala. Code § 14-7-16 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 7 / Section 14-7-16
Section 14-7-16 Reports as to Purchases by State Offices, Etc. - Priorities as to Purposes to Which Articles or Products to Be Devoted
Status: in_force

In keeping with the primary objective of vocational training and rehabilitation of prisoners, the articles or products manufactured or produced by prison labor in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall be devoted, first, to fulfilling the requirements of the offices, departments, institutions and agencies of this state which are supported in whole or in part by this state and, secondly, to supplying the political subdivisions of this state with such articles and products.
Ala. Code § 14-3-57 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 3 / Section 14-3-57
Section 14-3-57 Commission of Offense During Incarceration - Evidence of Conviction on Trial
Status: in_force

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 the penitentiary shall be presumptive evidence of a legal conviction and sentence of imprisonment, and a copy of the transcript of the conviction and sentence filed with the Board of Corrections and certified by it to be correct shall be received as evidence of such conviction.
Ala. Code § 14-2-8.1 — Alabama Code / Title 14 / Chapter 2 / Section 14-2-8.1
Section 14-2-8.1 Powers-Actions to Be Taken Upon Payment of All Bonds Issued by the Authority; Correctional Facilities Maintenance Fund
Status: in_force

(a) Separate and apart from the power granted to the authority in regard to the Kilby property in Sections 14-2-26 and 14-2-27, and in addition to those powers, the authority shall have the power to sell, convey, and lease all or any part of any real and personal property now or hereafter owned by it, together with the improvements thereon and ancillary thereto, that is not being used by the department as a facility, and the sale of which will not impair the outstanding obligations of the authority, and as an aid to the sale or lease, to cause to be prepared by competent real estate experts a land use map and plan. The authority may lease or sell lands and property owned by it without going through the Lands Division or in any other way complying with the provisions of Title 9, Chapter 15, Article 3. The authority must have duly adopted written policies and procedures governing the sale or lease of the property which invoke open competition and produce the best price, to include obtaining an appraisal, advertising the sale or lease, and conducting the sale by public auction or publicly sought sealed bid. The sale or lease shall be made at public sale or private sale as the authority shall determine to be necessary or desirable.

(b) The award of any property offered for public sale or lease shall be made to the highest responsible bidder unless all bids shall be rejected as inadequate and other public offering shall be made upon notice republished as prescribed above. Any sale shall be for all cash. Each deed or lease to effectuate any sale or lease shall be signed in the name of the authority by its president, to which the seal of the authority shall be affixed and attested by its secretary.

(c) The proceeds of each sale or lease of any such property shall be used first to pay the reasonable and necessary expenses of the sale or lease, and the balance remaining shall be deposited into the Correctional Facilities Maintenance Fund.

(d) The department shall maintain all facilities not being used for the purposes designated in Section 14-2-1(7), and designated for sale, lease, demolition, or other disposition, so long as title thereto is held by the authority, to enable the authority to achieve the best possible price or other result upon the sale, lease, or other disposition thereof.

(e) Upon request of the authority, the department shall convey to the authority any real and personal property to which the department holds title and acquired with proceeds of the authority’s bonds or income thereon.