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.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 14 - Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities.
Chapter 11 - Offenses Concerning Prisoners and Prisons.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 14-11-1 - Overworking, Maltreatment or Inflicting of Unauthorized Punishment on Convict.
Section 14-11-3 - Failure of Witness to Appear or Testify on Management and Treatment of Convicts.
Section 14-11-4 - Failure of Duty or Violation of Law by Guard, etc., of Convicts Generally.
Section 14-11-5 - Noncompliance by Officer, etc., With Sentence of Solitary Confinement.
Section 14-11-9 - Trespassing About Prisons.
Section 14-11-10 - Injury to or Destruction of State Property, etc., by Convict or Prisoner.