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§ 40-36-103 — Purposes of chapter

Tennessee § 40-36-103

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Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-36-103 (2026).

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The purposes of this chapter are to:

(1)Establish a mechanism for using state funds to contract with local governments and qualified private entities to develop community-based alternatives to incarceration that provide a treatment-centered pathway and community-based supervision for offenders, thereby reserving state penal institution, local jail, or workhouse bed space for other offenders;
(2)Facilitate the growth of treatment-centered pathways to alleviate geographical disparities in Tennessee with respect to the availability of such pathways available to judges at sentencing; and (3) Reduce the number of felony offenders committed to state penal institutions, local jails, and workhouses for whom a treatment-centered pathway and appropriate evidence-based community supervision will re

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Legislative History

Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 483, s 1, eff. 6/30/2023. Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 409, s 12, eff. 7/1/2021. Acts 1985 (1st Ex. Sess.), ch. 3, § 3.

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