SB87 Alabama 2017 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Prisons and prisoners, Pardons and Paroles Bd., medical parole docket, eligibility for certain prisoners suffering from chronic life-threatening illnesses, Corrections Dept. to provide list for consideration

Description

<p class="bill_description"> The Alabama Medical Furlough Act establishes a procedure for the discretionary medical furlough of certain incapacitated inmates convicted of certain criminal offenses</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require the Department of Corrections to annually identify all prisoners who have spent 30 or more days in an infirmary or under a physician's care to determine if the prisoner is eligible for a medical furlough. Upon a determination that the prisoner is eligible for medical furlough, the bill would require the expedited furlough of the inmate, subject to any restrictions deemed appropriate by the department</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also provide that prisoners who have reached a certain age and who have served a certain percentage of their sentence are eligible for medical furloughs under certain conditions</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 14-14-2 and 14-14-4, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to medical furloughs, to require the Department of Corrections to annually identify all prisoners who have spent 30 or more days in an infirmary or under a physician's care; to require the department to evaluate the eligibility of identified prisoners for a medical furlough; to provide for an expedited furlough of eligible prisoners under certain conditions; to provide that prisoners who have reached a certain age and who have served a certain percentage of their sentence are eligible for medical furloughs under certain conditions; and to provide for the medical furlough of prisoners convicted of criminal offenses suffering from life-threatening illnesses when death is imminent and under certain restrictions. </p>

Subjects

Prisons and Prisoners