Title 14

Any person who violates any provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $500 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for a term not exceeding six months, i…

(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 m…

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. (Code 1896, §4514; Code 1907, §6566; Co…

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. (Code 1896, §4515; Code 1907, §6567; Code 1923, §3663; Code 1940, T. 45, §65.)

Any part of the net income from the labor of state convicts may, with the approval of the Board of Corrections, be applied to permanent improvements or manufacturing at the prisons, looking to the more permanent employment of the convicts of different classes. (Code 1896, §4516; …

(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. Correction…

(a)(1) When any defendant is sentenced to the custody of the Department of Corrections, the judge of the court in which the sentence is rendered shall order the inmate to be confined in the nearest secure jail. Within five days of the court sentencing a defendant, the court or th…

The Board of Corrections must receive into the penitentiary, on the written order of the Governor, any convict whose sentence has been commuted, according to law, to imprisonment in the penitentiary, and must confine such person according to the terms of the commutation and the r…

The Board of Corrections must receive into the penitentiary all convicts sentenced to imprisonment therein by any court of the United States held in this state, and must safely keep and employ them according to the rules and regulations of the institution until the expiration of …

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 …

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 cr…

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, t…

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 penite…

(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…

It shall be unlawful to chain together or to confine together in the same room or compartment male and female convicts. (Code 1886, §4658; Code 1896, §4493; Code 1907, §6547; Code 1923, §3643; Acts 1931, No. 89, p. 166; Code 1940, T. 45, §52.)

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 n…

(a) All prisoners must be clothed during the term of their imprisonment in a comfortable manner in coarse and cheap clothing made in a uniform and peculiar style so as to distinguish them from other persons. (b) The Department of Corrections shall provide feminine hygiene product…

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. (Code 1852, §335; Code 1867, §3883; Code 1876, §4581; Code 1886, §4617; Code 1896, §4484; Code 1907, §6538; Code 1923, §3634; Code 1940, T. …

(a) State inmates shall be employed at such labor, in such places and under such regulations within the state as may be determined by the Department of Corrections. The Department of Corrections is expressly authorized to establish posts, camps or stations in conjunction with lab…

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…

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.…

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…

(a) This section shall be known as the “Joel Willmore Act.” (b) Whenever an inmate escapes from a penal facility, as defined in subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of Section 13A-10-30, or when a probationer or parolee who has a prior conviction for a Class A felony or a crime in w…

It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the Department of Corrections to install high voltage electrified security fence systems at any medium or maximum security prison facility. (Acts 1995, No. 95-520, p. 1055, §1.)

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 …

The installation of an electrified security fence shall be between double security fences, with the exception of those locations where a building or wall constitutes a part of the security perimeter. (Acts 1995, No. 95-520, p. 1055, §3.)

A provider of electricity for the electric fence system authorized by this article or the providers of parts for construction of the system shall not be liable for any accident, injury, or death which may occur as a result of the construction or operation of the system. (Acts 199…