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In the event such instructions prescribed in Section 14-6-87 are not carried out, and in the event the unsanitary or insecure conditions or overcrowding of prisoners, in the opinion of the Board of Corrections, warrant it and in the event the sheriff or other keeper of any jail or prison fails to or cannot comply with the law regulating the separation of male and female prisoners, the board may order any or all persons confined in such jail, prison or almshouse immediately transferred to the jail, prison or almshouse of some other county, to be designated. In the event of the condemnation of any jail under this section in which are confined more than 100 prisoners, the board may designate the Alabama State Penitentiary as the most suitable place for removal of said prisoners and such removal shall be made by the sheriff of the county from which they are ordered to be removed, and the expense of the removal of the prisoners and the poor and the maintenance of the removed prisoners and paupers is to be borne by the county, town or city from which said prisoners or paupers are removed, except the feeding of state and county prisoners.

(Code 1907, §7219; Acts 1911, No. 303, p. 356; Code 1923, §4861; Code 1940, T. 45, §167.)