Ala. Code § 15-22-43 (1975) Special Medical Parole Docket; Implementation; Factors Considered; Annual Report

• Library: Alabama Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Ala. Code § 15-22-43 (1975)

(a)

(1) The Board of Pardons and Paroles shall establish a special medical parole docket and adopt the rules for implementation pursuant to Section 15-22-24(e). For each person considered for medical parole, the board shall determine whether the person is a geriatric inmate, permanently incapacitated inmate, or terminally ill inmate for purposes of placing the person on a special medical parole docket to be considered for parole by the board. An open public hearing shall be held, pursuant to Section 15-22-23, to consider the medical parole of the inmate. Notices of the hearing shall be sent pursuant to Sections 15-22-23 and 15-22-36. The notice shall clearly state the inmate is being considered for a medical parole.

(2) The Department of Corrections shall immediately provide, upon request from the board, a list of geriatric, permanently incapacitated, and terminally ill inmates who are otherwise eligible for parole, subject to the limitations provided under Section 15-22-28(e). By January 1 of each calendar year, the Department of Corrections shall additionally identify all inmates who have spent more than 30 or more days in an infirmary in the prior calendar year or received costly and frequent medical treatment outside a Department of Corrections facility in the previous 12 months, as well as all inmates suffering from a life-threatening illness and whose death is imminent within 12 months, who are otherwise parole eligible, subject to the limitations provided under Section 15-22-28(e), and shall immediately provide this information to the board to determine if identified inmates may be considered for a medical parole.

(3) Upon a determination that the inmate is eligible for a medical parole, the board shall place the inmate on the next available special medical parole docket pursuant to rules adopted by the board for the board to consider the individual for medical parole.

(b) Medical parole consideration shall be in addition to any other release for which an inmate may be eligible.