2010 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions And Inmates
Chapter 2 - County Workhouses
41-2-108 - Sheriff as superintendent.
41-2-108. Sheriff as superintendent.
Whenever the jail in any county has been declared a workhouse, as provided in § 41-2-102, the sheriff shall be ex officio the superintendent of the workhouse. All persons liable to imprisonment for safekeeping, whether charged with felonies or misdemeanors, shall be confined therein, securely kept and properly cared for.
[Acts 1891, ch. 123, §§ 10, 11; Shan., § 7415; mod. Code 1932, § 12024; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1215.]
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