Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 14-6-97 (2026)
Duty of Sheriff, Etc., as to Food.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The sheriff, the chief of police or town marshal or the keeper or manager of the almshouse shall see that the food for the inmates of the jail, prison and almshouse, respectively, is nutritious, clean, wholesome and of sufficient quantity and variety and shall have all kitchens where food is prepared for the inmates adequately screened against flies.
(Acts 1911, No. 303, p. 356; Code 1923, §4870; Code 1940, T. 45, §176.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1980–1980 · leading case: Nicholson v. Choctaw Cnty., Ala., 498 F. Supp. 295 (S.D. Ala. 1980).
Nicholson v. Choctaw Cnty., Ala., 498 F. Supp. 295 (S.D. Ala. 1980). “The plaintiffs’ seventh cause of action against Sheriff Donald Lolley arises under Alabama Code § 14-6-40 and § 14-6-97, and the Commissioner of the Department of *298 Corrections under § 14-6-41, which require the provision of nutritionally adequate food to prisoners.”
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