State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““[I]n deeming an inmate’s failure to remain within the extended limits of his confinement under the community corrections program an escape from a state penal institution, [§ 15-18-175(d)(3)e, Ala.Code 1975,] defines the inmate’s status for purposes of invoking the escape offenses set forth in Alabama’s Criminal Code. In other words, if a person fails to remain within the extended limits of his confinement as those limits are defined by the community corrections program, then his status is that of an inmate who has escaped from a state penal institution or from the custody of the county sheriff, depending upon the underlying conviction. “Just as a ‘traditional’ inmate (that is, an inmate incarcerated within prison walls) who escapes from a penal institution can be charged with first-degree escape if he uses physical force, threat of physical force, or a deadly weapon or instrument in escaping, § 13A-10-31(a)(1), or if he escapes after having been convicted of a felony, § 13A-10-31(a)(2), an inmate in the community corrections program who fails to stay within the parameters of the dictates of the program can also be charged with first-degree escape if, in escaping, he uses physical force, the threat of physical force, or a deadly weapon or instrument, or if he was in custody because of a felony conviction. Accordingly, an inmate who escapes from a community corrections program can, under the appropriate circumstances, properly be charged with and convicted of first-degree esca”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 So. 3d 377 - State v. Bethel