Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 0420 - Correction
Subtitle 0420-02 - Division of County Programs
Chapter 0420-02-01 - County Corrections Incentive Program
Section 0420-02-01-.10 - GRANT APPLICATION PROCEDURES

(a) The amount of requested funding and the total cost of the proposed project.

(b) The certification status of existing county correctional facilities as established by the Tennessee Corrections Institute.

(c) The total rated inmate capacity of the county's present facilities and of the proposed new and/or expanded facility.

(d) The average daily inmate population of present facilities, by facility, over the last calendar year, broken out by number of pre-trial detainees, sentenced misdemeanants, sentenced felons.

(e) The total number of felons sentenced to the Department of Correction from that county over the last calendar year.

(f) The percentage of the proposed new bedspace which will be dedicated to the housing of convicted felons. (Such percentage must be at least equal to the percentage of the project proposed to be supported by State funding.)

(g) A detailed description of the project, including a copy of blueprints and the name and address of the architectural or engineering firm retained to design the project.

(h) Anticipated project beginning and completion dates.

(i) A description of programs which the county plans for state inmates and the percentage of that population anticipated to be involved in those programs.

(j) A description of programs the county presently has or intends to implement to provide alternatives to the incarceration of non-violent felons.

(k) A proposal regarding the types of state prisoners with regard to offense committed and sentences imposed that the county will commit to housing in the new facility.

(l) A certification that the planned project will meet Tennessee Corrections Institute and American Correctional Association standards applicable to jails.

(m) A management proposal for the facility, i.e., a statement regarding what entity will be responsible for daily operational management of the facility.

(n) If it is not the county's intention to commit in perpetuity the above proposed percentage of new bedspace to state inmates, a statement of its alternative proposal.

(o) If reimbursement for state inmates committed to the new facility is to be sought at a rate other than that established under Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 41-8-106, a statement of the per diem to be sought and documentation for the basis of that per diem. (Reimbursements may not be sought in excess of reasonable allowable cost, as determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury.)