This chapter provides financial incentives to counties to house additional nondangerous felony offenders locally. The purpose of the chapter is to mutually benefit state and county governments by:(1) Helping alleviate overcrowding in state correctional facilities and reducing high operation costs; and(2) Assisting counties in upgrading local correctional facilities and programs.Acts 1981, ch. 491, § 2; T.C.A., § 41-10-102.
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