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2010 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions And Inmates
Chapter 3 - Municipal Correctional Houses
41-3-104 - Detention for failure to pay fines and costs.
41-3-104. Detention for failure to pay fines and costs.
If a prisoner is confined for failure to pay a fine and costs, the prisoner shall be detained until the fine and costs, except litigation tax, have been paid by the proceeds of the prisoner's labor.
[Code 1858, § 5415; Shan., § 7395; mod. Code 1932, § 12002; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1404.]
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