2006 Code of Virginia § 53.1-41 - Opportunities for work and career and technical education

53.1-41. Opportunities for work and career and technical education.

To the extent feasible, it shall be the duty of the Director to providepersons sentenced to the Department with opportunities to work and toparticipate in career and technical education programs as operated by theDepartment of Correctional Education in accordance with 22.1-339 et seq.Such work opportunities may include business, industrial, agricultural,highway maintenance and construction, and work release programs as hereafterspecified in this article. In addition, prisoners may be employed to improve,repair, work on or cultivate public property or buildings.

In addition to meeting the qualifications for work performance and securitycompatibility, preference for placement in work programs shall be given toany prisoner who requests a work assignment and assigns a minimum of 50% ofhis earnings to his child support obligation.

(Code 1950, 53-33, 53-57, 53-224; 1970, c. 648; 1982, c. 636; 2001, c.483; 2006, c. 98.)