This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986.”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-24-101
Short title
Known as the Private Prison Contracting Act
The act spans §§ 41-24-101 to 41-24-119 (19 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Richardson v. McKnight (1997)
Most recently applied in Sandy Eugene Womack v. Correction Corporation Of America D/B/A Whiteville Correctional Facility (September 2014)
Acts 1986, ch. 932, § 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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