Section 15-18-1 Legal punishments; sentencing; liability of Department of Corrections for costs. (a) The only legal punishments, besides removal from office and disqualification to hold office, are fines, hard labor for the county, imprisonment in the county jail, imprisonment in the penitentiary, which includes hard labor for the state, and death. (b) In all cases […]
Section 15-18-4 Service of state sentence concurrently with federal sentence in federal penal system. When an offender who is under sentence from a federal court is convicted in a state court, the state judge, in his discretion, may impose a sentence to be served concurrently with the federally imposed sentence, in the federal penal system. […]
Section 15-18-5 Credit towards sentence for time spent incarcerated – Pending trial. (a) Upon conviction and imprisonment for any felony or misdemeanor, the sentencing court shall order that the convicted person be credited with all of his or her actual time spent incarcerated pending trial for the offense. The actual time spent incarcerated pending trial […]
Section 15-18-6 Credit towards sentence for time spent incarcerated – Time between recapture and return to penal system for recaptured escapees. An escapee from a state penal institution who is recaptured and returned to custody shall be credited with all of his actual time spent incarcerated within the State of Alabama prior to his transfer […]
Section 15-18-7 Applicability of Sections 15-18-5 and 15-18-6 to prisoners presently incarcerated. Sections 15-18-5 and 15-18-6 shall be applicable to any prisoner presently incarcerated who comes within the purview of Sections 15-18-5 and 15-18-6. (Acts 1976, No. 677, p. 926.)
Section 15-18-8 Terms of confinement, etc.; probation. (a) When a defendant is convicted of an offense, other than a sex offense involving a child as defined in Section 15-20A-4, that constitutes a Class A or Class B felony offense, and receives a sentence of 20 years or less in any court having jurisdiction to try […]
Section 15-18-8.1 Rules and regulations. Any and all rules and regulations issued by the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections pursuant to the provisions of Section 15-18-8 shall be subject to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (Acts 1988, No. 88-163, p. 261, §2.)
Section 15-18-9 Penalties for persons previously convicted of felonies. In all cases when it is shown that a criminal defendant has been previously convicted of any felony and after such conviction has committed another felony, he must be punished as follows: (1) On conviction of a Class C felony, he must be punished for a […]
