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Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 14-6-1 - Legal Custody and Charge of Jails and Prisoners; Appointment of Jailer. - The sheriff has the legal custody and charge of the...
Section 14-6-2 - Delivery of Jail, etc., Upon Death, etc., of Sheriff. - On the death, resignation, removal from office or expiration of...
Section 14-6-3 - Who May Be Confined in County Jail. - In addition to convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the county...
Section 14-6-4 - Duty to Receive and Keep Federal Prisoners. - The sheriff or jailer must, if the jail of the...
Section 14-6-5 - Refusal to Receive Prisoner Into Custody. - Any jailer or other officer who willfully refuses to receive...
Section 14-6-6 - Commitment to Nearest Sufficient Jail to Insure Safekeeping. - In all criminal cases, either before or after conviction, and...
Section 14-6-7 - Removal of Prisoners - When Made to Nearest Sufficient Jail. - If the jail of any county is destroyed, or becomes...
Section 14-6-8 - Removal of Prisoners - Fire. - When the county jail or any building contiguous thereto is...
Section 14-6-9 - Removal of Prisoners - Ill Health. - When the life or health of any prisoner, who is...
Section 14-6-10 - Removal of Prisoners - Use of Guards. - (a) When it becomes necessary to remove any prisoner from...
Section 14-6-11 - Summoning of Guards to Prevent Escape. - When the county jail is insecure or insufficient and there...
Section 14-6-12 - Commencement of Imprisonment on Second or Subsequent Conviction. - When a convict is sentenced to confinement in the county...
Section 14-6-13 - Separation of Men and Women. - Men and women prisoners, except husband and wife, must not...
Section 14-6-14 - Duty of Sheriff to Furnish List of Confined Prisoners to Circuit Court. - It is the duty of the sheriff, on the first...
Section 14-6-15 - Commitment or Discharge of Prisoners - Duty of Sheriff to Report to Clerk of Circuit Court. - When a prisoner is committed to the county jail, it...
Section 14-6-16 - Commitment or Discharge of Prisoners - Duty to File Process or Order. - It is the duty of the sheriff or of the...
Section 14-6-17 - Furnishing of Support to Prisoners. - Any person committed to jail may furnish his own support,...
Section 14-6-18 - Furnishing of Spirituous, etc., Liquors. - No person confined in jail must, on any pretext whatever,...
Section 14-6-19 - Clothing, Bedding, Medical Attention, and Feminine Hygiene Products. - The sheriff of a county shall provide to prisoners at...
Section 14-6-20 - Appointment of Physicians; Terms, Compensation, and Duties Thereof. - (a) The county commission in each county in this state...
Section 14-6-21 - Allowing Jail, etc., to Become Foul or Unclean. - Whoever, being a sheriff, jailer or other person having the...
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. - (a)(1) A court shall require a convicted defendant in a...
Article 2 - Feeding of Prisoners.
Section 14-6-40 - Duty to Feed Prisoners. - The sheriff of the county, except as otherwise provided by...
Section 14-6-41 - Supervision. - (a) It shall be the duty of the Board of...
Section 14-6-42 - Payments for Services; Recordkeeping. - (a) Food and the services for preparing food, serving food,...
Section 14-6-43 - Allowance - Preparation and Service, Etc. - REPEALED BY ACT 2019-133, ยง 2, EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2019.
Section 14-6-47 - Prisoner Feeding Fund; Forms for Records; Disposition of Funds. - (a) The Prisoner Feeding Fund is established in the office...
Section 14-6-48 - Custodian of Funds; Violations. - The sheriff shall be the custodian of all funds paid...
Section 14-6-50 - Penalty for Violation of Article. - Any member of a county commission, sheriff or deputy who...
Section 14-6-51 - Emergency Prisoner Feeding Fund. - There is hereby established the Emergency Prisoner Feeding Fund into...
Article 3 - Tubercular Prisoners.
Section 14-6-60 - Removal of Tubercular Prisoners to State Hospital. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-61 - Applicability of Article to Persons Confined Pending Appeal. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-62 - Payment of Expenses of Removal. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Article 4 - Inspection of Jails and Sanitation Requirements Generally.
Section 14-6-80 - Cities of 10,000 or Over Embraced in Article. - The only town or city prisons embraced within the provisions...
Section 14-6-81 - Duties of State Agency. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-82 - Authority to Order Jail, etc., Put in Proper Condition. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-83 - Power to Condemn Jails. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-84 - Sheriffs, etc., to Furnish Information on Request. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-85 - Penalty for Failure to Provide Information, Etc. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-86 - Formulation of Rules and Regulations. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-87 - Ordering, etc., of Alterations, Etc. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-88 - Ordering, etc., of Removal of Prisoners, Etc. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-89 - Ordering, etc., of Return of Prisoners, Etc. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-90 - Penalty for Refusal to Obey Orders of Board of Corrections. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-91 - Publication of Reports, Etc. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-92 - Fumigating, Cleansing and Painting Jails Generally. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-93 - Janitor Service, Bathing Facilities, Etc. - The county commission or city council shall provide adequate janitor...
Section 14-6-94 - Prisoners to Be Compelled to Bathe. - The sheriff, chief of police, town marshal or other keepers...
Section 14-6-95 - Jails, etc., to Be Kept Clean, Etc. - The sheriff, chief of police, town marshal or other keepers...
Section 14-6-96 - Fumigation of Jails, etc., Where Persons With Infectious, etc., Diseases Confined. - Any apartment of any jail, prison or almshouse in which...
Section 14-6-97 - Duty of Sheriff, etc., as to Food. - The sheriff, the chief of police or town marshal or...
Section 14-6-98 - Monthly Report to Board of Corrections. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-99 - Appointment of Special Coroner. - In the event the Board of Corrections needs the service...
Section 14-6-100 - Probate Judge to Furnish Grand Jury Report to Board of Corrections. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-101 - Notification of Board of Corrections as to Alterations, Etc. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-102 - Special Session of County Commission. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-103 - Size, etc., of Jails, Etc. - Each county jail or town or city prison must be...
Section 14-6-104 - Payment of Expenses of Maintenance, etc., of Jails, Etc. - The expense incident to the construction, maintenance, sanitation, healthfulness and...
Section 14-6-105 - Deputies, Watchmen, etc., for Jails, Etc. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-106 - Inspection of Prisons, Convict Camps, Jails, Etc. - Authorization. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-107 - Inspection of Prisons, Convict Camps, Jails, Etc. - Powers and Effect of Orders of Board of Corrections. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-108 - Visiting of Places Outside the State by Board of Corrections. - Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
Section 14-6-109 - Penalty for Violations of Provisions of Article for Which No Other Penalty Provided. - Any member of the county commission, sheriff or other keeper...