Travel Restrictions-Workhouse

No sheriff, jailer or other person responsible for the care and custody of inmates housed in a county workhouse may permit any inmate housed therein to leave this state unless such travel is approved by the sentencing court, the inmate is in need of emergency medical treatment available only in another state, or there is a death or medical emergency in the inmate's immediate family.T.C.A. § 41-2-148(c).