2010 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions And Inmates
Chapter 1 - Penitentiary
Part 4 - Legislative Guidelines for Correctional Policy
41-1-404 - Sentencing.
41-1-404. Sentencing.
The general assembly finds that the following policy statements regarding the criminal justice system are of importance to the state correction system:
(1) Trial judges are encouraged to use alternatives to incarceration as long as the alternatives include requirements of reparation or victim compensation; and
(2) Trial judges shall be provided a presentence report with sufficient information to make a proper evaluation and disposition of a defendant.
[Acts 1983, ch. 467, § 4.]
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