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Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-2-102 (2026)

Jail as workhouse

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Any county not having provided a separate workhouse may, through its county legislative body, declare its jail to be a workhouse, if the jail is, in the opinion of the members of the county legislative body, of sufficient capacity and suitable for the purpose. From and after the declaration the jail shall be known as, and shall be, the county workhouse, and the county shall have thereafter the benefit of all laws in the state applying to workhouses.

Acts 1891, ch. 123, § 2; Shan., § 7399; Code 1932, §12005; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 36, 37; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 69, §1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1202.

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Cited in 1 case, 2000–2000 · leading case: State v. David Mitchell (Tenn. Crim. App. 2000).
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State v. David Mitchell (Tenn. Crim. App. 2000). · cites it 4× “Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-2-102 (1997). Thereafter, the provisions of Title 41, Chapter 2 establish a board of workhouse commissioners, prescribe the type of labor to which workhouse prisoners may be put, mandate the workhouse superintendent’s duty of care to prisoners, establish…”
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