Ala. Code § 14-14-2 (1975) Definitions

• Library: Alabama Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions.

For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections.

(2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Corrections.

(3) GERIATRIC INMATE. A person 55 years of age or older convicted in this state of a non-capital felony offense and sentenced to the penitentiary, who suffers from a chronic life-threatening infirmity, life-threatening illness, or chronic debilitating disease related to aging, who poses a low risk to the community, and who does not constitute a danger to himself or herself or society.

(4) PERMANENTLY INCAPACITATED INMATE. A state inmate who possesses a permanent, irreversible physical or mental health condition that prevents him or her from being able to perpetrate a violent physical action upon another person or self or initiate or participate in a criminal act. The medical or mental health treatment or need for assistance of such individual must require daily assistance from a caretaker or a long-term skilled medical or rehabilitation center to perform or assist with activities of daily living, such as ambulation, dressing, and bathing and/or must require medications or treatments, such as hemodialysis, to sustain life which require regular diagnostic tests to monitor therapeutic effectiveness. Long-term care and housing needs of such individual with a physical or mental health condition described abo...