2010 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions And Inmates
Chapter 2 - County Workhouses
41-2-145 - Program and rating system Reduction of time to serve.

41-2-145. Program and rating system Reduction of time to serve.

(a)  (1)  The sheriff of any county having a consolidated or metropolitan form of government and all counties of the state having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, shall develop an inmate incentive program for workhouse prisoners, whereby credit may be given toward the reduction of time that an inmate is required to serve for the inmate's participation in academic or vocational education classes sponsored by the consolidated or metropolitan government and all counties of the state having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, and for above average performance in the inmate's job placement, on the basis of a rating system devised by the sheriff.

     (2)  In all other counties, the sheriff or superintendent may develop an inmate incentive program for workhouse prisoners whereby credit may be given toward the reduction of time that an inmate is required to serve for the inmate's participation in academic or vocational education classes on the basis of a rating system.

(b)  The program and rating system shall be approved by a three-member commission established pursuant to § 41-2-134. The commission shall be the same commission as set up to oversee the work release program.

(c)  All reductions in time to be served by the prisoners shall be approved by the commission. Those credits of time shall be in addition to any other credits toward sentence reduction to which workhouse inmates shall be entitled by provisions of any other law.

(d)  The sheriff is authorized to develop a schedule whereby an inmate shall be credited with a certain amount of time for active participation in an academic or vocational training program for a certain number of days and with a certain amount of time for maintaining a rating of above average job performance for a certain number of days.

(e)  Those credits on time shall be in addition to any other credits toward sentence reduction to which workhouse inmates shall be entitled by provisions of any other law.

[Acts 1973, ch. 100, § 2; 1977, ch. 395, § 3; T.C.A., § 41-1256; Acts 1986, ch. 744, §§ 22, 23.]