The county commission shall erect courthouses, jails, and hospitals and other necessary county buildings, and such county commission shall have authority to levy a special tax for that purpose. Each county within the state shall be required to maintain a jail within their county.
In counties in which a circuit court has been or is hereafter authorized to be held in more than one place, the county commission may build courthouses in each place of holding court, and, in all counties wherein a circuit court is authorized to be held or may hereafter be authorized to be held in more than one place for six months or more during any year, the county commission shall erect a courthouse at each of such places where such court is held, such courthouses to be adequate and commodious for the business of such court and county at such place. In said counties wherein a circuit court is authorized to be held or may hereafter be authorized to be held in more than one place for six months or more during any year, the county commission may erect and/or maintain a jail upon any property owned by the county located within the county. The Legislature, by local act passed subsequent to February 9, 1982, may provide for the location of such jail. This section shall not affect in anywise any local law heretofore enacted that is not in conflict herewith.
(Code 1852, §768; Code 1867, §902; Code 1876, §820; Code 1886, §891; Code 1896, §1405; Code 1907, §133; Acts 1915, No. 484, p. 544; Code 1923, §212; Code 1940, T. 12, §185; Acts 1982, No. 82-33, p. 49.)
Notes of Decisions
Gaines v. Choctaw Cnty. Comm'n, 242 F. Supp. 2d 1153 (S.D. Ala. 2003).
· cites it 6× “First, plaintiffs argue that the County breached the duty to “maintain a jail” prescribed in Ala.Code § 11-14-10 (1975) because it failed to provide audiovisual equipment to monitor inmates and because it failed to provide adequate medical care to its inmates.”
Joe Marsh v. Butler Cnty., 268 F.3d 1014 (11th Cir. 2001).
“See Ala.Code §§ 11-14-10, 11-14-13 (1989). Looking to Alabama case law to define the County's responsibilities under the statute, we see that "the [Alabama] legislature intended to require the county commission to keep a jail and all equipment therein in a state of repair to…”
Vinson v. Clarke Cnty., Ala., 10 F. Supp. 2d 1282 (S.D. Ala. 1998).
· cites it 5× “According to Alabama Code § 11-14-10 (1975), each county has a duty to “erect courthouses, jails and hospitals”; and, “[e]ach county within the state shall be required to maintain a jail within their county.”
Turquitt v. Jefferson Cnty., Ala., 929 F. Supp. 1451 (N.D. Ala. 1996).
· cites it 4× “Ala.Code § 11-14-10. More precisely, every county must obtain a site and erect a “suitable” jail.”
Parker v. Williams, 862 F.2d 1471 (11th Cir. 1989).
“Ala.Code § 11-14-10. More precisely, every county must obtain a site and erect a “suitable” jail.”
Parker v. Williams, 855 F.2d 763 (11th Cir. 1988).
· cites it 2× “The county’s financial support of the jail encompasses compensation for the sheriff, id.”
Turquitt v. Jefferson Cnty., 137 F.3d 1285 (11th Cir. 1998).
“Ala.Code §§ 11-14-10,11-14-13 (1989). In construing these provisions, the Alabama courts have made it clear that the duty of the county to erect and maintain a county jail pertains exclusively to the physical plant of the jail.”
Joe Marsh v. Butler Cnty., 212 F.3d 1318 (11th Cir. 2000).
“In their complaint, Marsh and Owens claim that the County’s “deliberate indifference to the substantial risk of serious harm to- inmates at Butler County Jail” resulted in substantial injury to them, in violation of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. In order to state…”
Joe Marsh v. Butler Cnty., 225 F.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2000).
“In their complaint, Marsh and Owens claim that the County’s “deliberate indifference to the substantial risk of serious harm to inmates at Butler County Jail” resulted in substantial injury to them, in violation of their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. In order to state…”
Brown v. Smith, No. 6:24-cv-01001 (N.D. Ala. Feb. 7, 2025).
· cites it 4× “” Ala. Code § 11-14-10 ; Sumter County, 953 So.”
Coffee Cnty. Comm'n v. Townsend, 583 So. 2d 983 (Ala. Civ. App. 1990).
· cites it 2× “In § 11-14-10, Code 1975, the Commission is specifically directed to erect jails and, further, is given the authority to levy a “special tax” for that purpose.”
Smothers v. Childers, No. 6:21-cv-01057 (N.D. Ala. Sept. 17, 2024).
· cites it 3× “Plaintiff counters that Sheriff Smith put Walker County on notice that PFHS was not complying with the terms of the 2019 CFS and that “[d]espite the non-compliant condition, the County looked the other way and, in an effort to mitigate cost, renewed the contract with PFHS.”
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