14-14-4
Section 14-14-4 Establishment of furlough program. (a) The department shall establish a medical furlough program. The commissioner shall adopt the rules and regulations for implementation of the medical furlough program. For each person considered for medical furlough, the commissioner shall determine whether the person is a geriatric inmate, permanently incapacitated inmate, or terminally ill inmate. (b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, an inmate who has not served his or her minimum sentence shall be considered eligible for consideration for furlough under this chapter. (c) This chapter shall not apply to inmates convicted of capital murder or a sexual offense. (d) Medical furlough consideration shall be in addition to any other release for which an inmate may be eligible. (e) The commissioner shall determine the conditions of release of any inmate pursuant to this chapter, including the appropriate level of supervision of the inmate, and shall develop a discharge plan...
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14-14-5
Section 14-14-5 Medical release application; eligibility factors; revocation; notice. (a) An inmate, or any concerned person, including, but not limited to, the inmate's attorney, family, physician, or an employee or official of the department may initiate consideration for medical furlough by submitting to the department an initial medical release application form along with supporting documentation. (b)(1) The initial application form shall include the report of a physician or physicians employed by the department or its health care provider and a notarized report of at least one other duly licensed physician who is board certified in the field of medicine for which the inmate is seeking a medical furlough and who is not an employee of the department. These reports shall each be of the opinion that the inmate is either terminally ill, permanently incapacitated, or that the inmate suffers from a chronic infirmity, illness, or disease related to aging. (2) The commissioner shall...
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14-14-3
Section 14-14-3 Eligibility for furlough. (a) No physical or medical condition that existed at the time of sentencing shall provide the basis for medical furlough under this chapter, unless the inmate has become permanently incapacitated or terminally ill after the date of sentencing. In considering an inmate's eligibility for medical furlough, the department shall take into consideration the age of the inmate at the time the crime was committed. (b) No inmate shall be considered for medical furlough unless the inmate consents in writing to the release after a written explanation of the inmate's medical needs and the availability of medical services, unless the inmate is not capable of consent as determined by a medical professional. (c) No inmate shall be considered for medical furlough unless he or she would be Medicaid or Medicare eligible at the time of release or a member of the inmate's family agrees in writing to assume financial responsibility for the inmate, including, but not...
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15-22-43
Section 15-22-43 Special medical parole docket; implementation; factors considered; annual report. (a)(1) The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall establish a special medical parole docket and adopt the rules for implementation pursuant to Section 15-22-24(e). For each person considered for medical parole, the board shall determine whether the person is a geriatric inmate, permanently incapacitated inmate, or terminally ill inmate for purposes of placing the person on a special medical parole docket to be considered for parole by the board. An open public hearing shall be held, pursuant to Section 15-22-23, to consider the medical parole of the inmate. Notices of the hearing shall be sent pursuant to Sections 15-22-23 and 15-22-36. The notice shall clearly state the inmate is being considered for a medical parole. (2) The Department of Corrections shall immediately provide, upon request from the board, a list of geriatric, permanently incapacitated, and terminally ill inmates who are...
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45-4-233
Section 45-4-233 Work Release board; powers and duties; work release fund; escape of inmates from custody. In Bibb County, the sheriff shall execute every order from every court in Bibb County to subpoena witnesses as provided in Section 12-21-180, or the service may be made by first class mail as follows: It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county to enclose the subpoenas in an envelope addressed to the person to be served and place all necessary postage and a return address thereon. In the event the witness subpoena is returned to the sheriff by the post office department of the United States without delivery, the subpoena shall be by the sheriff returned NOT FOUND. All witness subpoenas not returned to the sheriff by the post office department shall be considered for all purposes as sufficient personal and legal service. It is specifically provided, however, that, if the party calling a witness expressly requests in writing that the subpoena be delivered to such witness...
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14-9-41
Section 14-9-41 Computation of incentive time deductions. (a) Each prisoner who shall hereafter be convicted of any offense against the laws of the State of Alabama and is confined, in execution of the judgment or sentence upon any conviction, in the penitentiary or at hard labor for the county or in any municipal jail for a definite or indeterminate term, other than for life, whose record of conduct shows that he or she has faithfully observed the rules for a period of time to be specified by this article may be entitled to earn a deduction from the term of his or her sentence as follows: (1) Seventy-five days for each 30 days actually served while the prisoner is classified as a Class I prisoner. (2) Forty days for each 30 days actually served while the prisoner is a Class II prisoner. (3) Twenty days for each 30 days actually served while the prisoner is a Class III prisoner. (4) No good time shall accrue during the period the prisoner is classified as a Class IV prisoner. (b)...
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12-23A-5
Section 12-23A-5 Drug tests; screening; confidentiality of information; criteria for participation. (a) Any drug offender subject to this chapter who posts bail shall submit to random observed drug tests as a condition of pretrial release. (b) A drug offender shall be required to undergo a screening under any of the following conditions: (1) The results of a drug test are positive. (2) The drug offender requests a screening. (3) The drug offender admits to substance use or abuse within the year preceding the arrest for the present charge. (4) The present charge involves a violation of the controlled substances or impaired driving statutes. (5) The drug offender, within the previous five years, has been convicted in any state or federal court involving a violation described in subsection (b)(1), (b)(3), or (b)(4). (6) The drug offender refuses to undergo a drug test as required by this chapter. (c) Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (a), the court shall order a drug offender...
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15-22-36
Section 15-22-36 Authority to grant pardons and paroles, remit fines and forfeitures, etc.; notice of board action. (a) In all cases, except treason and impeachment and cases in which sentence of death is imposed and not commuted, as is provided by law, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, after conviction and not otherwise, may grant pardons and paroles and remit fines and forfeitures. (b) Each member of the Board of Pardons and Paroles favoring a pardon, parole, remission of a fine or forfeiture, or restoration of civil and political rights shall enter in the file his or her reasons in detail, which entry and the order shall be public records, but all other portions of the file shall be privileged. (c) No pardon shall relieve one from civil and political disabilities unless specifically expressed in the pardon. No pardon shall be granted unless the prisoner has successfully completed at least three years of permanent parole or until the expiration of his or her sentence if his or her...
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14-14-6
Section 14-14-6 Review. This chapter shall not be deemed to grant any entitlement or right to release. Upon denial of release by the commissioner, the commissioner may schedule further review of consideration of medical furlough. No inmate or anyone acting on the inmate's behalf shall have the right to seek judicial review. (Act 2008-550, p. 1193, ยง6.)...
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14-7-22.1
Section 14-7-22.1 Prison industry programs. (a) In order to implement work-oriented rehabilitation programs in an actual private enterprise work environment, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections may contract or enter into agreements with private individuals, enterprises, partnerships, or corporations to develop joint plants, businesses, factories, or commercial enterprises. The contracts or agreements shall be limited to those in which the department contracts or agrees to furnish inmate labor for the manufacture of articles or products or to furnish inmate labor for the provision of service in facilities furnished by the department or the party or parties and enter into contracts or agreements with the department. The facilities shall be on property owned or operated by the department or at any prison facility housing inmates sentenced to the department. (b) An inmate may participate in the program established pursuant to this section only on a voluntary basis and only...
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