Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-4-103 (2026)
Persons confined - Evaluation authorized
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) In addition to convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, the jail is used as a prison for the safekeeping or confinement of the following persons:
- (1) Persons committed for trial for public offenses;
- (2) Inmates sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, until their removal to the penitentiary;
- (3) Persons committed for contempt or on civil process;
- (4) Persons committed on failure to give security for their appearance as witnesses in any criminal cases;
- (5) Persons charged with or convicted of a criminal offense against the United States;
- (6) Insane persons, pending transfer to a hospital for the insane or other disposition; and
- (7) All other persons committed to the jail by authority of law.
- (b) The jailer may perform evaluations of the persons listed in subdivisions (a)(1)-(7) for purposes of classification, management, care, control and cell assignment.
Code 1932, § 11980; Acts 1978, ch. 602, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1103.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1995–1995 · leading case: State v. Walker, 905 S.W.2d 554 (Tenn. 1995).
State v. Walker, 905 S.W.2d 554 (Tenn. 1995). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-4-103 . We are also convinced that an "insufficient" jail includes one that is so overcrowded that it violates the prisoner's rights under the Eighth amendment to the United States Constitution.”
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