When personal violence is offered by a inmate to an officer, employee or to another inmate, or when an attempt is made to escape, or to do injury to the building, or any material, implements, etc., those officers and employees are authorized to use all necessary means of defense and to secure the person of the offender.
Code 1858, § 5523 (deriv. Acts 1829, ch. 38, § 25); Shan., § 7542; Code 1932, § 12140; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-706.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions and Inmates
Part 4 - Punishment of Inmates
§ 41-21-401. Defense Against Violence or Attempt to Escape
§ 41-21-402. Solitary Confinement
§ 41-21-403. Report of Inmates in Solitary
§ 41-21-404. Unauthorized Means of Punishment
§ 41-21-405. Self-Inflicted Wounds by Inmate to Escape Labor — Punishment