45-35-232.60
Section 45-35-232.60 Community corrections officers. Upon successfully completing the minimum standards of training and other requirements for law enforcement officers of the Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission, a person employed by the Houston County Work Release Commission as a community corrections officer shall have the same law enforcement powers, including powers of arrest, as granted to law enforcement officers of this state. The commission may expend funds for persons employed as community corrections officers to meet the minimum standards as law enforcement officers and may by rule and regulation provide for the reimbursement of amounts spent based on the employee's continuing service with the commission for a reasonable length of time after receiving the training. (Act 97-675, p. 1300, §1.)...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/45-35-232.60.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
15-18-175
Section 15-18-175 Eligibility; exclusion; sentencing. (a) An offender who meets one of the following minimum criteria shall be considered eligible for punishment in the community under this article: (1) Persons who, without this option, would be incarcerated in a correctional institution or who are currently incarcerated in a correctional institution. (2) Persons who are convicted of misdemeanors. (b) The following offenders are excluded from consideration for punishment in the community: (1) Persons who are convicted of offenses as listed in subdivision (14) of Section 15-18-171. (2) Persons who demonstrate a pattern of violent behavior. In reaching this determination, the court may consider prior convictions and other acts not resulting in conviction or criminal charges, and the offender's behavior while in state or county confinement. (c) The eligibility criteria established in this section shall be interpreted as guidelines for the benefit of the court in making a determination of...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/15-18-175.htm - 7K - Match Info - Similar pages
15-18-178
Section 15-18-178 Eligibility for contracts or grants; common facilities and cost sharing. (a) Any county program or authority formed by one or more counties under this article shall be eligible to apply for direct and continuing financial contracts and grants under the article. (b) A nonprofit entity other than a community punishment and corrections authority may be eligible under the provisions of this article to receive grants or contracts to carry out the provisions and purposes of this article only in a county that has not established a local community punishment and corrections authority or which does not intend to apply for funding directly. The county commission may elect to endorse the community punishment and corrections plan submitted by the nonprofit entity after the commission has received notice that the nonprofit entity desires to seek a grant to carry out this article and the county does not establish a community punishment and corrections authority or pass a resolution...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/15-18-178.htm - 2K - Match Info - Similar pages
45-2-84.03
Section 45-2-84.03 Release of eligible persons; participation in programs. (a) Any eligible person, who is within the jurisdiction of the Circuit or District Courts of the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit, may be released at the discretion of a judicial officer from the Baldwin County Jail pursuant to the terms of the pretrial release program developed pursuant to this part or upon conviction sentenced to the custody of the Baldwin County Community Corrections Center or placed in programs developed pursuant to this part. (b) An eligible person may be considered for participation in the programs developed pursuant to the provisions of this part upon an order of the court having jurisdiction of the eligible person, upon the motion of the eligible person, and upon motion of the district attorney. An eligible person may not be ordered by a judicial officer to be placed in the programs developed pursuant to this part unless the eligible person meets the criteria promulgated by the Baldwin...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/45-2-84.03.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
45-2-84.08
Section 45-2-84.08 Rules and regulations; revocation hearings. (a) The Baldwin County Pretrial Release and Community Corrections Board may promulgate rules and regulations for establishing pretrial release programs, alternative sentencing programs, educational programs, intervention programs, treatment programs, supervision programs, and other programs to serve the courts of the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit. (b) A person who has been released or sentenced pursuant to this part and who has violated a condition of release or sentencing shall be subject to revocation of release or subject to revocation of any other sentence imposed upon motion of the court, the district attorney, or the supervising officer of the defendant in the program in which he or she has been placed. A revocation hearing shall be conducted by the court as provided by the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure for bond revocation in cases of violation of terms of pretrial release and probation revocation in cases...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/45-2-84.08.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
15-18-180
Section 15-18-180 Funding for community-based programs, facilities, services; user fees; inmate wages. (a) Community punishment and corrections funds may be used to develop or expand the range of community punishments and services at the local level. Community-based programs should utilize evidence-based practices, as defined in Section 12-25-32, in the treatment and supervision of program participants. The supervision and treatment of each program participant is expected to be based on the participant's anticipated risk of reoffending, as determined through a validated risk and needs assessment as defined in Section 12-25-32, administered by the program. Supervision and treatment of program participants should include the following: (1) Use of a validated risk and needs assessment; (2) Use of assessment results to provide guidance for determining the appropriate level of supervision responses consistent with the levels of supervision and evidence-based practices reasonably anticipated...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/15-18-180.htm - 5K - Match Info - Similar pages
45-2-84.05
Section 45-2-84.05 Credit for jail time; community service; violations of terms and conditions. (a) Any person who has been released from custody or sentenced under this part may be required by the court to report to the Baldwin County Jail during weekends or at the times or intervals of time as the court may direct. Jail time credit may be given for the time served and calculated in the customary manner. In no event shall the number of days in confinement exceed the number of days in the original sentence. Any person who has been ordered released or sentenced pursuant to this part may be required by the judicial officer as a condition of release or sentencing to perform community service hours for nonprofit entities, civil organizations, or government agencies as directed and supervised by the Baldwin County Community Corrections Center. (b) Any part of a day spent outside of jail or the custody of the Department of Corrections, but in the actual physical custody of the Baldwin County...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/45-2-84.05.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
45-23-140
Section 45-23-140 Fire protection program. (a) The County Commission of Dale County is authorized, when the need exists, to provide protection against forest fires in Dale County by participating in the Alabama Forestry Commission's fire protection program in the manner hereinafter specified. (b)(l) After the Dale County Commission has determined that such a need does exist in Dale County, the county commission may, in the manner hereinafter specified, provide for a financial charge or tax to be paid by the owners of forest lands located in Dale County for use of the land for timber growing purposes amounting to the whole or any part of the cost of such fire protection program, but not in excess of ten cents ($0.10) per acre, provided such financial charge or tax is not greater than the benefit accruing to such forest lands due to availability of such fire protection. (2) "Forest lands" as used in this section, shall mean any land which supports a forest growth, or which under...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/45-23-140.htm - 4K - Match Info - Similar pages
12-25-4
Section 12-25-4 Advisory council. (a) An advisory council to the commission shall be established to advise and consult the commission on sentencing matters. The advisory council shall be composed of representatives from the various state and non-state agencies and organizations having an interest in or whose operations directly or indirectly impact upon the criminal justice system. Membership of the advisory council shall include: (1) The Director of Public Safety, or his or her designee. (2) The Director of the Department of Youth Services, or his or her designee. (3) A sheriff appointed by the Alabama Sheriff's Association. (4) A police chief appointed by the Alabama Association of Chiefs of Police. (5) A director of a community corrections program appointed by the Chief Justice. (6) A representative of a prison ministry organization, who is not employed by the state, appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections. (7) A rehabilitated former prison inmate appointed by...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/12-25-4.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
14-8-40
Section 14-8-40 Inmates not deemed state agents, etc.; cause of action against county, etc. No inmate granted privileges under the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be an agent, employee, or involuntary servant of the department, state, or county while involved in the free community, while under the direction, control, and supervision of the inmate's employer, or while going to and from employment or other specified areas. Any inmate participating in a work release program authorized by this chapter or otherwise working outside the jail or a correctional facility shall have no cause of action against the county or a community correction agency, or an employee thereof, related to such activities, unless the county or community corrections agency, or employee thereof, is willfully negligent in carrying out their responsibilities. (Acts 1976, No. 637, p. 883, §11; Act 2002-497, p. 1287, §1.)...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/14-8-40.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
|