41-2-142 - Furlough program.
41-2-142. Furlough program.
(a) All counties in the state having duly adopted a consolidated or metropolitan form of government pursuant to title 7, chapter 1 shall institute a furlough program for workhouse prisoners.
(b) All counties having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, shall institute a furlough program for county jail or workhouse prisoners.
[Acts 1973, ch. 13, § 1; 1977, ch. 372, § 1; T.C.A., § 41-1253; Acts 1987, ch. 49, § 1.]