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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-081 Order Primary source read

ADOC Public Announcement, 'COVID-19 -- ADOC Suspends All Visitation and Inmate Passes for 30 Days' (Mar. 16, 2020, with updates of Mar. 19-20, 2020)

All visitation, inmate passes, tours and volunteer entry suspended statewide 30 days; all non-emergent inmate community physician appointments suspended 30 days; inter-facility transfers suspended; J.F. Ingram State Technical College vocational classes closed Mar. 17-Apr. 3, 2020; in-person legal visits suspended 30 days; all Work-Release and Work-Center Programs suspended 30 days (no offsite assignments); correctional officer testing event postponed; 30-day moratorium on new intakes from county jails

Alabama Department of Corrections (Commissioner Jefferson S. Dunn) · Alabama Department of Corrections; State level (State)

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Jurisdiction
Alabama Department of Corrections; State level · Alabama
Level
State
Authority
Ala. Code § 14-1-8
Issued
2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
Effective
2020-03-16; intake moratorium effective Mar. 20, 2020 (read as 2020-03-16)
End
Thirty-day periods extended; work release resumed in stages later in 2020; visitation remained suspended through 2020 (read as 2020-12-31)
In force
Mar. 16, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Gathering capHealth care ordersCourts and public officesOther
Addressees
  • visitors, tour groups and volunteers
  • community physicians and hospitals
  • J.F. Ingram State Technical College
  • attorneys
  • private employers of work-release inmates
  • county jails (intake moratorium)
Functions reached
  • PL private employers of about 3,000 work-release inmates (labor withdrawn)
  • OC community physicians (non-emergent appointments suspended)
  • IN Ingram State Technical College (classes closed)
  • VS visitors
  • VL volunteers
  • CB county jails (intake moratorium)
  • HR officer testing postponed
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

All visitation, inmate passes, tours, and volunteer entry into our facilities are suspended statewide for 30 days.... All non-emergent inmate community physician appointments and procedures are suspended for 30 days.... Inmate transfers between facilities are suspended... Vocational classes offered to inmates through J.F. Ingram State Technical College will be closed from March 17 - April 3, 2020. General legal visits conducted in-person by attorneys with inmates will be suspended for 30 days.... All Work-Release and Work-Center Programs are suspended for 30 days - no offsite assignments will be permitted.... Effective today, the Department is placing a 30-day moratorium on new intakes from county jails based on Governor Ivey's declared State of Emergency related to COVID-19.

Enforcement

Commissioner's authority (Ala. Code § 14-1-8); Administrative Regulation 303

Notes

Alabama's work-release program supplies labor to private employers statewide; the 30-day suspension of offsite assignments reached every one of them. The intake moratorium is expressly 'based on Governor Ivey's declared State of Emergency.'

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