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1989 Tennessee Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1989)

handle is hein.sag/sagtn0092 and id is 1 raw text is: OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TENNESSEE Published by Authority of Chapter 276 Public Acts of 1971 October 1989 89-133 CIVIL RIGHTS-PRISONERS: A county government is responsible for providing prisoners sentenced to the county workhouse with medical care when needed; however, if the prisoner is indigent, the responsibility for payment of those medical expenses should be decided between the county and the medical provider; the state is liable for expenses incurred from emergency hospitalization and medical treatment rendered to any state prisoner incarcerated in the county workhouse; however, with respect to non-emergency medical expenses, the payment of those expenses for indigent state prisoners is a matter to be resolved between the county and the medical care provider; regardless of who pays, a prisoner is entitled to medical care, and the government agency, in whose custody the prisoner is placed, is responsible for insuring that the prisoner obtains any such needed medical care. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV; T.C.A. §41-4-115. 89-133 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, TENNESSEE: Prisons and Prisoners: A county government is responsible for providing prisoners sentenced to the county workhouse with medical care when needed; however, if the prisoner is indigent, the responsibility for payment of those medical vexpenses should be decided between the county and the medical provider; the state is liable for expenses incurred from emergency hospitalizatiorA and medical treatment rendered to any state prisone. incarcerated in the county workhouse; however, with respect to non-emergency medical expenses, the payment of those expenses for indigent state prisoners is a matter to be resolved between the county and the medical care provider; regardless of who pays, a prisoner is entitled to medical care, and the government agency, in whose custody the prisoner is placed, is responsible for insuring that the prisoner obtains any such needed medical care. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV; T.C.A. §41-4-115.

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