Prohibition Against Trusty Status for Sexual Offenders

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Correctional Institutions and Inmates
4. Correctional Institutions and Inmates — General Provisions
5. Prohibition Against Trusty Status for Sexual Offenders

1. No person who has been convicted of an offense that will require the person to register as a sexual offender pursuant to title 40, chapter 39, part 2, and who is being housed in a county or municipal jail or workhouse, shall be eligible for, nor shall such person be placed on, trusty status.
2. Subsection (a) is applicable regardless of whether the person is:
   1. Sentenced to the department of correction but is serving the sentence in a county or municipal jail or workhouse pursuant to contract or is sentenced to confinement in a county or municipal jail or workhouse; or
   2. Sentenced to the department of correction but is being housed in a county or municipal jail or workhouse while awaiting transfer to the department.

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