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2019 Code of Alabama
Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.
Chapter 10 - Miscellaneous Offenses Concerning Public Officers, etc., Generally.
Section 36-10-16 - Threatening, etc., of prisoners for purposes of extorting confessions, etc., or keeping prisoners incommunicado.
Universal Citation: AL Code § 36-10-16 (2019)
Section 36-10-16Threatening, etc., of prisoners for purposes of extorting confessions, etc., or keeping prisoners incommunicado.
No officer or person having the custody and control of the body or liberty of any person under arrest shall refuse permission to such arrested person to communicate with his friends or with an attorney nor subject any person under arrest to any form of personal violence, intimidation, indignity or threats for the purpose of extorting from such person incriminating statements or a confession. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Code 1923, §5099; Code 1940, T. 41, §223.)
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