Tennessee § 40-28-114 - Records of prisoners.

§ 40-28-114. Records of prisoners.

As each prisoner sentenced is received at a classification center within the department of correction, it will further be the duty of the probation and parole officer of the district from which the prisoner was sent to cause to be obtained and forwarded to the board a summary from the trial judge and the district attorney general containing: The facts as they developed at the trial; The nature of the prisoner's conviction; The court in which the prisoner was sentenced; The name of the trial judge; and Copies of other probation reports as may have been made in order for the board to have the benefit of the reports when the prisoner becomes eligible for parole consideration or applies for executive clemency. Acts 1937, ch. 276, § 7; mod. C. Supp. 1950, § 11818.7 (Williams, § 11843.7); Acts 1961, ch. 93, § 9; modified; 1979, ch. 359, § 16; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3611; Acts 1989, ch. 227, § 28; 1998, ch. 1049, §§ 24, 35; 2012, ch. 727, § 22. Compiler's Notes. For the preamble to the act concerning transfers of certain functions relating to probation and parole services and the community correction grant program from the board of probation and parole to the department of correction, please refer to Acts 2012, ch. 727. Acts 2012, ch. 727, § 63 provided that the implementation of the act, which amended the introductory paragraph, shall be fully accomplished on or before January 1, 2013.