The jailers shall enforce cleanliness in their respective jails. They shall furnish the necessary apparatus for shaving once a week, shall provide bathing facilities separate for males and females, shall furnish hot and cold water, clean and sufficient bedding, and laundering once a week to those prisoners who are not able to provide such for themselves. The jailers shall keep the jails clean and shall remove all filth from each cell once every twenty-four (24) hours.
Code 1932, § 12040; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1111.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions and Inmates
§ 41-4-101. Duty of Sheriff — Appointment of Jailer
§ 41-4-102. Delivery of Jail and Prisoners to Successor in Office
§ 41-4-103. Persons Confined — Evaluation Authorized
§ 41-4-104. Inmates en Route to Penitentiary
§ 41-4-108. Support of Prisoners
§ 41-4-110. Segregation of Sexes
§ 41-4-114. Correspondence and Visitors
§ 41-4-117. Violation as Misdemeanor
§ 41-4-118. Employment of Guard
§ 41-4-120. Board in Guarding Prisoner
§ 41-4-121. Safekeeping of Prisoners — Sufficient Jails
§ 41-4-122. Guard for Removal of Prisoner
§ 41-4-123. Redelivery to Place of Trial
§ 41-4-124. Allowance of Expenses
§ 41-4-126. Allowance for Additional Guards
§ 41-4-127. Transportation Appropriations by Counties Having No Jail
§ 41-4-128. Accounts of Appropriated Funds
§ 41-4-129. Accounts of Sheriffs and Jailers
§ 41-4-133. Filing of Sheriff's Bills
§ 41-4-134. Compliance as Prerequisite to Payment
§ 41-4-135. Refund to State of Costs Collected From Defendant
§ 41-4-136. Monthly Audit of Jailer's Fees
§ 41-4-137. Refund to County of Fees Collected From Defendant