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Statutes > Tennessee > Title-41 > Chapter-24 > 41-24-10641-24-106. Standards of security Resumption of state control on termination of contract.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, prior to entering a contract for providing the security function for any prison, such as providing correctional officers or other persons providing security and control over inmates, the following requirements shall be met:
(1) A plan shall be developed and certified by the governor which demonstrates the method by which the state would resume control of the prison upon contract termination. This plan shall be submitted for review and comment to the select oversight committee on corrections and the oversight committee shall solicit comments from law enforcement agencies, district attorneys general, criminal judges in the county in which the prison is located and the surrounding counties. State officials responsible for approving any contract for the security function or any contract which includes provision of security are encouraged to await the comments of the select oversight committee on corrections prior to executing any such contract; and
(2) The commissioner shall certify to the select oversight committee on corrections that the security procedures proposed by the contractor are equal or superior to the security procedures in effect at existing state-operated prisons and the commissioner shall comment on the relationship of the procedures proposed by the contractor to each standard of security and control specified in the standards for adult correctional institutions by the American Correctional Association.
[Acts 1986, ch. 932, § 6.]
