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 jail in his or her county and all prisoners committed thereto, except in cases otherwise provided by law. The sheriff may employ persons to carry out his or her duty to operate […]
Section 14-6-10 Removal of prisoners – Use of guards. (a) When it becomes necessary to remove any prisoner from the jail of one county to another, in any case by law provided, the sheriff, or other officer having charge of such prisoner, has authority, and it is his duty, to summon such guards as may […]
Section 14-6-11 Summoning of guards to prevent escape. When the county jail is insecure or insufficient and there is reason to apprehend an escape, the sheriff has authority, and it is his duty, to summon as many guards as may be necessary to prevent an escape. (Code 1852, §251; Code 1867, §3799; Code 1876, §4499; […]
Section 14-6-12 Commencement of imprisonment on second or subsequent conviction. When a convict is sentenced to confinement in the county jail on two or more convictions, the imprisonment on the second, and on each subsequent conviction, must commence at the termination of the imprisonment on the preceding sentence. (Code 1852, §247; Code 1867, §3795; Code […]
Section 14-6-13 Separation of men and women. Men and women prisoners, except husband and wife, must not be kept in the same room or apartment. (Acts 1911, No. 303, p. 356; Code 1923, §4856; Code 1940, T. 45, §122.)
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 day of each session of the circuit court of his county, to make out and deliver to the presiding judge a certified list of the names of all the prisoners confined […]
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 is the duty of the sheriff of such county, in person or by deputy, to report in writing to the clerk of the circuit court of such […]
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 jailer under his direction to file in regular order and safely preserve the process or order by which any prisoner is committed to jail or discharged therefrom or an attested copy […]
Section 14-6-17 Furnishing of support to prisoners. Any person committed to jail may furnish his own support, under such precautions as may be adopted by the jailer to prevent escapes. The sheriff must furnish support to those prisoners who do not provide it for themselves. (Code 1852, §242; Code 1867, §3790; Code 1876, §4492; Code […]
Section 14-6-18 Furnishing of spirituous, etc., liquors. No person confined in jail must, on any pretext whatever, be furnished with or allowed to receive any spirituous, malt or vinous liquors except on the written order of a physician, stating that such liquor is necessary for his health. Any jailer, sheriff, deputy or other person who […]
Section 14-6-19 Clothing, bedding, medical attention, and feminine hygiene products. The sheriff of a county shall provide to prisoners at the expense of the county, all of the following: (1) Necessary clothing and bedding. (2) Necessary medicine and medical attention to those prisoners who are sick or injured, when they are unable to provide them […]
Section 14-6-2 Delivery of jail, etc., upon death, etc., of sheriff. On the death, resignation, removal from office or expiration of term of office of any sheriff, or of any coroner acting as sheriff, the jail must be delivered over to his successor or to the person authorized by law to take charge of it, […]
Section 14-6-20 Appointment of physicians; terms, compensation and duties thereof. (a) The county commission in each county in this state may elect a physician, or as many physicians as in its discretion may be necessary, to attend the inmates of the jails in such counties and county convict camps. (b) The county commission shall fix […]
Section 14-6-21 Allowing jail, etc., to become foul or unclean. Whoever, being a sheriff, jailer or other person having the care and custody of any jail, workhouse, prison or other lawful place of confinement, suffers the same to become foul or unclean shall, on conviction, be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100. […]
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 misdemeanor case to pay housing, maintenance and medical costs associated with the defendant’s […]
Section 14-6-3 Who may be confined in county jail. In addition to convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, the jail is used as a prison for the safekeeping or confinement of the following persons: (1) Persons committed for trial for public offenses; (2) Convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, until their removal […]
Section 14-6-4 Duty to receive and keep federal prisoners. The sheriff or jailer must, if the jail of the county is sufficient, receive into his custody any person committed under any criminal charge or offense against the United States and safely keep such prisoner, according to the order or process of commitment, until duly discharged […]
Section 14-6-5 Refusal to receive prisoner into custody. Any jailer or other officer who willfully refuses to receive into his custody any person lawfully committed thereto on any criminal charge or conviction must, on conviction, be fined not more than $500. (Code 1852, §31; Code 1867, §3572; Code 1876, §4129; Code 1886, §3973; Code 1896, […]
Section 14-6-6 Commitment to nearest sufficient jail to insure safekeeping. In all criminal cases, either before or after conviction, and in cases of contempt, if it is shown to the court, judge or committing magistrate that the jail of the proper county is insecure or insufficient for the safekeeping of the prisoner or that there […]
Section 14-6-7 Removal of prisoners – When made to nearest sufficient jail. If the jail of any county is destroyed, or becomes insufficient or unsafe, or any epidemic dangerous to life is prevalent in the vicinity or there be danger of rescue or lawless violence to any prisoner, any circuit court judge may, on the […]
