2010 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions And Inmates
Chapter 2 - County Workhouses
41-2-139 - Liability of participating prisoners for program costs.

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, in addition to any fine imposed by the court. The amount to be paid shall be determined by the board of commissioners established by § 41-2-134 and in accordance with § 41-2-129(b)(1).

[Acts 1967, ch. 285, § 7; 1973, ch. 87, § 1; 1976, ch. 812, § 1; 1980, ch. 911, § 3; T.C.A., § 41-1250; Acts 1986, ch. 787, § 1.]  

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