2015 Code of Virginia
Title 53.1 - Prisons and Other Methods of Correction
§ 53.1-39. Certain punishment of prisoners prohibited
Notwithstanding any provision of this Code or of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for the Board or any other correctional authority having the care, custody or control of any prisoner in this Commonwealth to make or enforce any rule or regulation providing for the whipping, flogging or administration of any similar corporal punishment of any prisoner, or to give any specific order for or to cause to be administered or personally to administer or inflict any such corporal punishment.
Code 1950, ยง 53-55; 1982, c. 636.
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