County Jails/Corrections
Opinion
# 99-160
Discussion of municipality's responsibility for the expenses
of indigent municipal inmates housed in the county jail.
Opinion
# 99-210
Discussion regarding housing of municipal prisoners in
county jail.
Opinion
# 2001-030
Discussion of the applicability of the Alabama Community
Punishment and Corrections Act of 1991, which authorizes
counties to establish and/or participate in community
corrections programs.
Opinion
# 2001-036
Discussion of permissible uses of work release funds by
counties.
Opinion
# 2001-149
Discussion explaining that a person arrested by a municipal
police officer for a felony is a municipal prisoner until
placed in the custody of the county, but may be taken
directly to the county jail for detention.
Opinion
# 2001-227
Discussion of utilizing county inmates for work in county
buildings.
Opinion
#2002-114
Discussion of several issues related to the potential
liability of officials and employees connected in some
regard to a community corrections program.
Opinion
#2002-138
Discussion of who is authorized under Alabama law to dispense
medications to inmates in the county jail.
Opinion
# 2002-348
Discussion providing that a municipality may be contractually
bound to pay for the medical treatment of its prisoners
who are housed at the county jail.
Opinion
# 2002-235
Discussion providing that an inmate in the county jail
can be required by administrative disciplinary procedures
to pay for county property deliberately destroyed by inmate
when due process requirements are met.
Opinion
# 2002-248
Discussion addressing several issues related to agreements
between a county and municipality for the housing of municipal
prisoners in the county jail and providing that there
is no state law that prohibits a city or a county from
locating prisoners outside the city's or the county's
borders.
Opinion
# 2003-025
Discussion providing that municipalities are responsible
for the food and housing expenses of municipal prisoners
in the county jails, unless there is a contract specifying
otherwise, and that a municipal prisoner may only be placed
on municipal work release and only by a municipal court
or municipal parole board; therefore, a sheriff cannot
place a municipal prisoner on a county work release program.
Opinion
# 2003-032
Discussion regarding the roles of the sheriff and county
commission in housing municipal prisoners in the county
jail.
Opinion
# 2003-044
Discussion regarding the proper disposal of personal property
abandoned or unclaimed by transferred inmates.
Opinion
# 2003-079
Discussion regarding several aspects of the responsibilities
of counties and/or sheriffs for feeding and providing
for county prisoners.
Opinion
# 2003-084
Discussion providing that the county commission may use
the proceeds from a jail tax levied under section 11-14-10
to enlarge and improve the existing jail or erect a new
jail facility in addition to the existing jail.
Opinion
# 2003-096
Discussion providing that a sheriff or jailer, acting
as an agent for an inmate, may deliver prescription drugs
prepackaged by dosage to an inmate when a licensed pharmacist
has dispensed the drugs.
Opinion
# 2004-017
Discussion of responsibility for expenses of a municipal
inmate housed in the county jail.
Opinion
# 2004-023
Discussion providing that county inmate work details may
be assigned to remove trees and shrubs donated from private
property for use on public lands if the county commission
so directs.
Opinion
# 2004-045
Discussion providing that funds generated from a telephone
installed in the county jail are to be placed in the county
treasury.
Opinion # 2004-196
Discussion providing that a municipality is not responsible for the medical expenses of indigent municipal prisoners housed in the county jail unless it has contracted to provide such costs, and that a county is not responsible for the medical costs of an indigent municipal prisoner housed in the county jail.
Opinion # 2005-153
Discussion providing that the county commission cannot levy a fee to the sheriff to be paid from the Sheriff’s Jail Fund for the use of county facilities for the jail store, the telephone system, and housing of federal inmates.
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