The management and government of the state penitentiaries for adults are vested in the department of correction. It has all the power necessary for the full and efficient exercise of the executive, administrative, and fiscal supervision over all such institutions, except as otherwise expressly provided.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-6-102
Penitentiaries for adults — Management by department of correction
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Mandela v. Campbell (1998)
Most recently applied in Mandela v. Campbell (October 1998)
Acts 1919, ch. 39, § 2; impl. am
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