§ 41-2-138. Monthly Report to Sentencing Judge
The warden of the workhouse shall file a monthly report with respect to each prisoner placed under the work release program with the judge by whom the prisoner was sentenced advising the judge as to the conduct and financial achievement of the prisoner.
§ 41-2-139. Liability of Participating Prisoners for Program Costs
Any prisoner placed under the work release program who has been convicted of a misdemeanor shall pay to the workhouse, for housing, board and administration of the program, the sum of not less than six dollars ($6.00) nor more than twenty-eight dollars ($28.00) for each day the prisoner works at employment away from the workhouse, […]
§ 41-2-127. Release of Prisoners for Occupational, Scholastic or Medical Purposes
Counties having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, shall permit certain prisoners to leave the workhouse or jail during reasonable and necessary hours for occupational, scholastic or medical purposes as provided in §§ 41-2-127 — 41-2-132. All other counties of this […]
§ 41-2-128. Prisoners Who May Apply for Release — Procedure
Whenever any person has been sentenced to undergo imprisonment in a county workhouse, referred to as the “workhouse” in this chapter, for the commission of a crime defined as a misdemeanor by the laws of the state of Tennessee, the county board of commissioners, if there is one, or, otherwise, the judge of the circuit […]
§ 41-2-129. Wages or Salary of Employed Prisoners — Liability of Prisoner for Prisoner’s Board in the Workhouse — Work Release
When a prisoner is employed for wages or salary, the warden, superintendent or other person in charge of the workhouse shall collect the wages or salary or require the prisoner to turn over the prisoner’s wages or salary when received; and the warden, superintendent or other person in charge of the workhouse shall deposit the […]
§ 41-2-120. Refusal to Work or Disorderly Conduct
Any prisoner refusing to work or becoming disorderly may be confined in solitary confinement, or subjected to such other punishment, not inconsistent with humanity, as may be deemed necessary by the sheriff or superintendent for the control of the prisoners, including reducing sentence credits pursuant to the procedure established in § 41-2-111. Prisoners refusing to […]
§ 41-2-121. Transfer to Department of Correction
Whenever the sheriff or superintendent in charge of the county workhouse or penal farm determines that a prisoner who is convicted and sentenced to the workhouse or penal farm under § 40-23-104, § 40-35-314 or former § 40-35-311 proves to be a troublemaker or does not adjust to the proper type of operation of the […]
§ 41-2-122. Transfer to State Psychiatric Hospital
Whenever the sheriff or superintendent or other official in charge of the county workhouse or penal farm determines that a prisoner convicted and sentenced to the workhouse or penal farm requires hospitalization for treatment of a mental illness, that official may seek the admission of the prisoner to a state psychiatric hospital under § 33-6-201, […]
§ 41-2-123. Road Work by Prisoners — Credit for Time Worked — Grants for Litter Abatement — Governmental Immunity
All prisoners sentenced to the county workhouse under § 40-23-104 or former § 40-35-311 shall be worked on the county roads under the supervision of the chief administrative officer of the county highway department, when, in the opinion of the chief administrative officer, a sufficient number are available to pay the county for the necessary […]
§ 41-2-124. Work Contracts With Other Counties
Any county not desiring to work its workhouse prisoners may, through its county mayor, by direction of the county legislative body, contract with any other county for the custody and employment of such prisoners. The prisoners shall then be worked and guarded by the county contracting to take them and shall be subject to any […]