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.
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 14-6-6 – Commitment to Nearest Sufficient Jail to Insure Safekeeping.
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.
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 […]
Section 14-6-8 – Removal of Prisoners – Fire.
Section 14-6-8 Removal of prisoners – Fire. When the county jail or any building contiguous thereto is on fire and there is reason to apprehend that the prisoners may be thereby injured or endangered, the sheriff or jailer may remove them to a safe and convenient place and confine them there so long as may […]
Section 14-6-9 – Removal of Prisoners – Ill Health.
Section 14-6-9 Removal of prisoners – Ill health. When the life or health of any prisoner, who is not confined under process from any court of the United States, may be seriously endangered by longer confinement in jail and that fact is made to appear clearly to any circuit court judge, such judge must, by […]
Section 14-6-10 – Removal of Prisoners – Use of Guards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]