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2006 Alabama Code - Chapter 6 — JAILS.
Article 1 General Provisions.
- Section 14-6-1 — Legal custody and charge of jails and prisoners; appointment of jailer.
- Section 14-6-2 — Delivery of jail, etc., upon death, etc., of sheriff.
- Section 14-6-3 — Who may be confined in county jail.
- Section 14-6-4 — Duty to receive and keep federal prisoners.
- Section 14-6-5 — Refusal to receive prisoner into custody.
- Section 14-6-6 — Commitment to nearest sufficient jail to insure safekeeping.
- Section 14-6-7 — Removal of prisoners - When made to nearest sufficient jail.
- Section 14-6-8 — Removal of prisoners - Fire.
- Section 14-6-9 — Removal of prisoners - Ill health.
- Section 14-6-10 — Removal of prisoners - Use of guards.
- Section 14-6-11 — Summoning of guards to prevent escape.
- Section 14-6-12 — Commencement of imprisonment on second or subsequent conviction.
- Section 14-6-13 — Separation of men and women.
- Section 14-6-14 — Duty of sheriff to furnish list of confined prisoners to circuit court.
- Section 14-6-15 — Commitment or discharge of prisoners - Duty of sheriff to report to clerk of circuit court.
- Section 14-6-16 — Commitment or discharge of prisoners - Duty to file process or order.
- Section 14-6-17 — Furnishing of support to prisoners.
- Section 14-6-18 — Furnishing of spirituous, etc., liquors.
- Section 14-6-19 — Clothing, bedding and medical attention.
- Section 14-6-20 — Appointment of physicians; terms, compensation and duties thereof.
- Section 14-6-21 — Allowing jail, etc., to become foul or unclean.
- Section 14-6-22 — Misdemeanant required to pay costs of incarceration; remission of costs; amount and method of payment; payment of costs as condition of probation, etc., authorized; procedure upon default; disposition of costs.
Article 2 Feeding of Prisoners.
- Section 14-6-40 — Duty to feed prisoners.
- Section 14-6-41 — Supervision.
- Section 14-6-42 — Allowance - Amount per capita.
- Section 14-6-43 — Allowance - Preparation and service, etc.
- Section 14-6-47 — Forms for records and statements.
- Section 14-6-48 — Failure of sheriff to maintain account book, etc.
- Section 14-6-50 — Penalty for violation of article.
Article 3 Tubercular Prisoners.
- Section 14-6-60 — Removal of tubercular prisoners to state hospital.
- Section 14-6-61 — Applicability of article to persons confined pending appeal.
- Section 14-6-62 — Payment of expenses of removal.
Article 4 Inspection of Jails and Sanitation Requirements Generally.
- Section 14-6-80 — Cities of 10,000 or over embraced in article.
- Section 14-6-81 — Duties of state agency.
- Section 14-6-82 — Authority to order jail, etc., put in proper condition.
- Section 14-6-83 — Power to condemn jails.
- Section 14-6-84 — Sheriffs, etc., to furnish information on request.
- Section 14-6-85 — Penalty for failure to provide information, etc.
- Section 14-6-86 — Formulation of rules and regulations.
- Section 14-6-87 — Ordering, etc., of alterations, etc.
- Section 14-6-88 — Ordering, etc., of removal of prisoners, etc.
- Section 14-6-89 — Ordering, etc., of return of prisoners, etc.
- Section 14-6-90 — Penalty for refusal to obey orders of board of corrections.
- Section 14-6-91 — Publication of reports, etc.
- Section 14-6-92 — Fumigating, cleansing and painting jails generally.
- Section 14-6-93 — Janitor service, bathing facilities, etc.
- Section 14-6-94 — Prisoners to be compelled to bathe.
- Section 14-6-95 — Jails, etc., to be kept clean, etc.
- Section 14-6-96 — Fumigation of jails, etc., where persons with infectious, etc., diseases confined.
- Section 14-6-97 — Duty of sheriff, etc., as to food.
- Section 14-6-98 — Monthly report to Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-99 — Appointment of special coroner.
- Section 14-6-100 — Probate judge to furnish grand jury report to Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-101 — Notification of Board of Corrections as to alterations, etc.
- Section 14-6-102 — Special session of county commission.
- Section 14-6-103 — Size, etc., of jails, etc.
- Section 14-6-104 — Payment of expenses of maintenance, etc., of jails, etc.
- Section 14-6-105 — Deputies, watchmen, etc., for jails, etc.
- Section 14-6-106 — Inspection of prisons, convict camps, jails, etc. - Authorization.
- Section 14-6-107 — Inspection of prisons, convict camps, jails, etc. - Powers and effect of orders of Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-108 — Visiting of places outside the state by Board of Corrections.
- Section 14-6-109 — Penalty for violations of provisions of article for which no other penalty provided.
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