2010 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions And Inmates
Chapter 21 - Inmates
Part 2 - Regulation and Care of Inmates
41-21-207 - Work or education of inmates.
41-21-207. Work or education of inmates.
(a) All persons sentenced to the penitentiary shall be kept at labor or at school when in sufficient health.
(b) The work of inmates shall be generally from six (6) to eight (8) hours per day during regular work days throughout the year, and the number of hours to be worked in the different seasons of the year shall be regulated by the commissioner of correction. For purposes of this section, any hour an inmate attends school each day shall be credited to the hours the inmate must work each day.
[Code 1858, § 5502; Acts 1883, ch. 171, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1895 (E.S.), ch. 7, § 21; impl. am. Acts 1897, ch. 125, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1915, ch. 20, § 9; Shan., §§ 7512, 7521; impl. am. Acts 1919, ch. 39, §§ 1, 2; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 42; Code 1932, §§ 12108, 12118; impl. am. Acts 1955, ch. 102, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-325; Acts 1992, ch. 1022, §§ 1-3; 2005, ch. 271, § 1.]
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