Except as otherwise provided by law, an action that accrued while the plaintiff inmate was housed in a facility operated by the department or in a facility operated by a private corporation pursuant to a contract with the state or local government shall be brought in the county in which the facility is located.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-21-803
Venue
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Hawkins v. Tennessee Department of Correction (2002)
Most recently applied in Sandy Eugene Womack v. Correction Corporation Of America D/B/A Whiteville Correctional Facility (September 2014)
Acts 1996, ch. 913, § 1; 2015, ch. 143, § 1.
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Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.