Solitary Confinement

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  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Correctional Institutions and Inmates
  4. Inmates
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  6. Solitary Confinement

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  1. Any inmate who neglects or refuses to perform the labor assigned, willfully injures any of the materials, implements or tools, engages in conversation with any other inmate or in any other manner violates any of the regulations of the penitentiary, may be punished by solitary confinement for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days for each offense, at the discretion of the warden or the person acting in the warden's place.
  2. Every inmate punished by solitary confinement shall be shut up in a cell and fed with bread and water only during solitary confinement, unless the physician certifies to the warden that the health of the inmate requires other diet.

Code 1858, §§ 5518, 5519 (deriv. Acts 1829, ch. 38, § 25); Shan., §§ 7537, 7538; Code 1932, §§ 12136, 12137; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 41-707, 41-719.

Law Reviews.

Administrative Decisions in Prisons: Are Prisoners Entitled to Procedural Due Process? (Lee Freudberg), 2 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 85 (1972).


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