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2015 Code of Virginia
Title 53.1 - Prisons and Other Methods of Correction
§ 53.1-25.1. Rules of state correctional facilities
VA Code § 53.1-25.1 (2015) What's This?
The Director shall prescribe rules for state correctional facilities to ensure that, when physical contact is required between an officer and an inmate and when the inmate is required by circumstances to disrobe, the officer shall be the same gender as the inmate. However, such rules may allow for the suspension of the provisions of this section during the period of a declared emergency.
2000, c. 807.
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