Tennessee Code Title 41. Correctional Institutions and Inmates § 41-24-114

In a facility operated pursuant to a contract to provide correctional services, as defined in § 41-24-102(2)(F), or in a facility operated pursuant to a contract with a county to hold state inmates and that county has entered into a contract with a contractor to provide correctional services, as defined in § 41-24-102(2)(F), if the death rate of inmates at the facility, as reported in the department's annual statistical abstract, is twice the death rate of an equivalent state-operated facility, the department shall reduce the population at such facility by ten percent (10%) within ninety (90) days of issuing such report.  The reduction in population must continue until the department determines that the conditions leading to the reduction have been corrected.