The records and other documents concerning any inmate who is sentenced to the custody of the department of correction and is being housed in a prison or facility operated by a private prison contractor shall be public records to the same extent such records are public if an inmate is being housed in a department of correction facility.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-24-117
Records relating to inmates in private facilities
Known as the Private Prison Contracting Act
The act spans §§ 41-24-101 to 41-24-119 (19 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Friedmann v. Corrections Corp. of America (2009)
Most recently applied in Friedmann v. Corrections Corp. of America (September 2009)
Acts 1998, ch. 942, § 1.
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.