SB126 Alabama 2010 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Lowell BarronDemocrat - Session
- Regular Session 2010
- Title
- Corrections Department, contract with a county commission to establish regional detention facility to house state and county offenders, authorized, design, construction, maintenance, operation, contract period and fee, sheriff to manage and provide work for offenders
- Description
Existing law allows counties to contract with each other to establish a regional jail authority and to build a regional jail facility to house county offenders. Existing law also allows municipalities to participate in the regional jail authority to house municipal offenders.
This bill would allow the Department of Corrections to contract with a county to create a regional detention facility to house state and county offenders.
This bill would provide procedures for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the facility.
This bill would provide a contract period for the use of the facility by the Department of Corrections and a fee to be paid by the department for each state offender housed in the facility.
This bill would make the sheriff of the county where the facility is located responsible for the management of the facility and the care and control of the offenders housed therein, and further provide compensation for the sheriff.
This bill would allow the sheriff, under certain conditions, to provide work for offenders housed at the facility and would further provide for the disbursement of any compensation owed the offender and reimbursement of the facility for free labor used by a political subdivision of the state.
This bill would require the facility to meet the requirements of the American Correctional Association standards for the housing of offenders.
- Subjects
- Corrections Department
Bill Actions
Indefinitely Postponed
Barron motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair Granted
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 443
Barron second Substitute Offered
Barron tabled Barron substitute
French tabled French Amendment
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Barron motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
French Amendment Offered
Further Consideration
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Barron first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund
Bill Text
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Source: Alabama Legislature