2010 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions And Inmates
Chapter 2 - County Workhouses
41-2-127 - Release of prisoners for occupational, scholastic or medical purposes.

41-2-127. Release of prisoners for occupational, scholastic or medical purposes.

(a)  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.

(b)  All other counties of this state are authorized to 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.

[Acts 1967, ch. 259, § 1; 1972, ch. 626, § 1; T.C.A., § 41-1237.]  

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