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 […]
The department of transportation is authorized to enter into and make such contracts as may be deemed advisable by the department, with county officials charged by law to work workhouse prisoners in the construction or reconstruction of roads and to compensate such counties by allowing credit to the county in cooperating in the construction or […]
Any person, after sentence of punishment by imprisonment of any prisoner has expired, may, by contract with the workhouse commissioners and with the consent of the prisoner, bail out any prisoner, under the following form and conditions: State of Tennessee, County of . I, , principal, and , sureties, do hereby agree to pay the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The county board of commissioners, or county legislative body if there is no county board of commissioners, may, by order, authorize the warden, superintendent or other person in charge of the workhouse to whom the prisoner is committed to arrange with another warden, superintendent or other person in charge of a workhouse for the employment […]
The warden, superintendent or other person in charge of a workhouse may refuse to permit the prisoner to exercise the privilege to leave the workhouse for any breach of discipline or other violation of workhouse regulations. Similarly, the sheriff may refuse to permit the prisoner to exercise the privilege to leave the jail for any […]
The warden, superintendent, prison keeper or other administrative head of a workhouse shall be authorized, with the approval of the local governing body of the county workhouse, to jointly contract with any other governmental agency, whether federal, state, county or municipal, with regard to accepting prisoners in custody of such other governmental agency or agencies […]
All counties in the state, except as provided in subsection (b), may institute a work release program in accordance with this chapter. This section shall not apply to any county having a population, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of: not less than nor more than 14,400 14,500 19,500 19,600 […]
There is created a commission to authorize prisoners to come under a work release program whenever any person has been committed to the workhouse or similar place of confinement and to approve educational programs established pursuant to § 41-2-145. The commission, as authorized in this section, is authorized and empowered to permit the defendant to […]
A prisoner desiring to come under the work release program shall file a petition with the work release coordinator of the correctional/rehabilitation division. The petition must be joined in by the sheriff and concurred in by the warden of the workhouse and approved by the commission.
Any prisoner placed under the work release program may be taken out of the program for just cause by the commission. In the event a prisoner is taken out of the work release program, the prisoner shall remain in the workhouse and complete the sentence.
In the event a prisoner placed under the work release program does not return to the workhouse at the time specified by the warden or the work release coordinator as a condition of being placed under the work release program, the failure to return shall constitute prima facie evidence of intent to escape and the […]
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.
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, […]
The warden of the workhouse shall be responsible for the receipt and disbursement of all wages earned by a participating prisoner, and the wages shall be received, disbursed and accounted for in the fashion directed by the finance director of a metropolitan government.
The sheriff, the correctional/rehabilitation work release coordinator and the warden of the workhouse shall establish rules and regulations for the orderly operation of the work release program. The rules and regulations must be approved by the commission. A violation of any rules and regulations so promulgated shall constitute cause for the removal of the prisoner […]
All counties in the state having duly adopted a consolidated or metropolitan form of government pursuant to title 7, chapter 1 shall institute a furlough program for workhouse prisoners. All counties having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, shall institute a […]
Whenever any person has been committed to the county jail or county workhouse, any sheriff or workhouse superintendent of a county with a population of seven hundred thousand (700,000) or more, according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, is authorized, in the official’s sole discretion, to permit an inmate to leave […]
