41-4-103 - Persons confined Evaluation authorized.

41-4-103. Persons confined Evaluation authorized.

(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 thereto 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.]