The board of workhouse commissioners shall prescribe the kind of labor at which the prisoners shall be put; provided, that when practicable, they shall be worked on the county roads in preference to all other kinds of labor.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-2-105
Labor prescribed for prisoners
Acts 1891, ch. 123, § 5; Shan., § 7405; Code 1932, § 12016; T.C.A
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