Jails, Local Lock-ups

Plain English Breakdown

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Monthly Reports for Work Release Prisoners

This bill requires wardens of county workhouses to send monthly reports about prisoners in work release programs to the judge who sentenced them.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the warden of a county workhouse to file a report each month.
• The report must be sent by the fifteenth day of the following month.
• Reports should include information on prisoner conduct and financial achievements.
• This applies to prisoners in work release programs.
• The judge who sentenced the prisoner receives these reports.

Who It Names or Affects

• Wardens of county workhouses
• Judges who sentence prisoners
• Prisoners in work release programs

Terms To Know

Work Release Program

A program that allows certain prisoners to leave jail during the day for work or other activities, as long as they return at night.

Warden

The person in charge of a prison or workhouse.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens if a report is late.
• Does not explain how the information will be used by judges.
• Does not include details on consequences for non-compliance with reporting requirements.

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

HOUSE BILL 2203
By Keisling

SENATE BILL 2170
By Yager
SB2170
011658
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5;
Title 40 and Title 41, relative to persons serving
criminal sentences.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 41-2-138, is amended by deleting the
section and substituting instead:
The warden of the workhouse shall file a monthly report, on or before the
fifteenth day of the month immediately following the reporting period, with respect to
each prisoner placed under the work release program with the judge by whom the
prisoner was sentenced advising the judge as to the conduct and financial achievement
of the prisoner.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.