Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 40 > Chapter 28 > Part 3 - Community Supervision

• Board: means the board of parole. See Tennessee Code 40-28-102
• Chief supervision officer: means the correctional administrator for each region of the state or any other person designated by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 40-28-301
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of correction. See Tennessee Code 40-28-102
• Community supervision: means :
  (i) The placement of a defendant on probation by a court for a specified period during which the sentence is suspended in whole or in part. See Tennessee Code 40-28-301
• Court: means a court of record having original criminal jurisdiction. See Tennessee Code 40-28-301
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of correction. See Tennessee Code 40-28-102
• Graduated sanction: means any of a wide range of non-prison offender accountability measures and programs, including, but not limited to, electronic supervision tools. See Tennessee Code 40-28-301
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Parole: means the release of a prisoner to the community by the board prior to the expiration of the prisoner's term subject to conditions imposed by the board and to supervision by the department, or when a court or other authority has issued a warrant against the prisoner and the board, in its discretion, has released the prisoner to answer the warrant of the court or authority. See Tennessee Code 40-28-102
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation and parole officer: means a person appointed or employed by the department to supervise individuals placed on community supervision. See Tennessee Code 40-28-301
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Supervised individual: means an individual placed on probation by a court or serving a period of parole or post-release supervision from prison or jail for a felony offense. See Tennessee Code 40-28-301