41-21-515 - Application of part. - Tennessee Statutes

41-21-515. Application of part.

(a)  (1)  The provisions of this part apply to first term inmates and second term inmates hereafter sentenced to prisons or other correctional institutions in Tennessee and those first term inmates and second term inmates currently serving sentences in the state; provided, that subject inmates have been approved for participation in the program by the division of rehabilitative services.

     (2)  Notwithstanding anything in this part to the contrary, the rehabilitative programs made available in this part to first term inmates and second term inmates shall also be available to any other inmates deemed suitable for the programs by the department of correction. References in this part to “first term inmates and second term inmates” and “inmates” are deemed to include those other inmates.

(b)  Participants shall be carefully selected and sentencing courts shall be consulted before particular inmates are placed in outside scholastic or work programs.

(c)  Persons convicted of capital offenses shall only be eligible to take part in the outside programs twelve (12) months prior to their eligible parole date.

[Acts 1970, ch. 471, § 15; 1972, ch. 538, § 8; 1974, ch. 511, § 1; T.C.A., § 41-1815; Acts 1985 (1st E.S.), ch. 5, § 5.]