The management and government of the state penitentiaries for adults are vested in the department of correction. It has all the power necessary for the full and efficient exercise of the executive, administrative, and fiscal supervision over all such institutions, except as otherwise expressly provided.Acts 1919, ch. 39, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1921, ch. 4, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 42; Shan. Supp., § 312b; 2; mod. Code 1932, § 371; impl. am. Acts 1935, ch. 186, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 371; impl. am. Acts 1953, ch. 27, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1955, ch. 102, § 1; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 4-602; Acts 1989, ch. 278, § 22.
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