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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 53.1 - Prisons and Other Methods of Correction
Chapter 2 - State Correctional Facilities
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 53.1-18. Board to have custody of property; right to sue to protect property
- § 53.1-19. Establishment of correctional institutions
- § 53.1-20. Commitment of convicted persons to custody of Director
- § 53.1-20.1. Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration
- § 53.1-21. Transfer of prisoners into and between state and local correctional facilities
- § 53.1-22. Misdemeanant suspected of having contagious disease
- § 53.1-23. Fingerprints, photographs and description
- § 53.1-23.1. Repealed
- § 53.1-23.2. Department to give notice of the receipt of certain prisoners
- § 53.1-24. Record of convictions and register to be kept
- § 53.1-25. Director to prescribe rules; rules to be available to prisoners
- § 53.1-25.1. Rules of state correctional facilities
- § 53.1-26. Confiscation of prohibited articles
- § 53.1-27. Establishment of stores in state correctional facilities
- § 53.1-28. Authority to fix discharge date; improper release; warrant, arrest and hearing
- § 53.1-29. Authority for correctional officers and other employees to carry weapons
- § 53.1-30. Who may enter interior of state correctional facilities; searches of those entering
- § 53.1-31. Sale or lease of gas, oil or minerals
- § 53.1-31.1. Transportation of prisoners
- § 53.1-31.2. Notification of child support due by a prisoner
- § 53.1-31.3. Notification of incarcerated individuals ineligible for public assistance
Article 2. Treatment and Privileges of Prisoners
- § 53.1-32. Treatment and control of prisoners; recreation; religious services
- § 53.1-32.01. Payment for bodily injury
- § 53.1-32.1. Classification system; program assignments; mandatory participation
- § 53.1-32.2. Reentry planning
- § 53.1-33. Physical examination of prisoner; ability to work
- § 53.1-33.1. Mandatory testing for human immunodeficiency virus
- § 53.1-34. Treatment of prisoner with contagious disease
- § 53.1-35. Correspondence privileges; receipt of publications
- § 53.1-35.1. Electronic visitation and messaging with inmates; fees
- § 53.1-36. Prisoners may assist in medical research programs
- § 53.1-37. Furloughs generally; travel expenses; penalties for violations
- § 53.1-38. When ineligible for furloughs
- § 53.1-39. Certain punishment of prisoners prohibited
- § 53.1-40. Appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners
- § 53.1-40.01. Conditional release of geriatric prisoners
Article 2.1. Medical and Mental Health Care; Involuntary Admission and Treatment
- § 53.1-40.1. Medical and mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent
- § 53.1-40.2. Involuntary admission of prisoners with mental illness
- § 53.1-40.3. Place of hearing or proceeding
- § 53.1-40.4. Appeal of order authorizing involuntary admission
- § 53.1-40.5. Transfer of prisoner involuntarily admitted
- § 53.1-40.6. Periodic review of prisoner for purposes of retention
- § 53.1-40.7. Discharge of prisoner involuntarily admitted
- § 53.1-40.8. Fees and expenses
- § 53.1-40.9. Civil admission proceeding prior to release
- § 53.1-40.10. Exchange of medical and mental health information and records
Article 3. Employment and Training of Prisoners
- § 53.1-41. Opportunities for work and career and technical education
- § 53.1-42. Allowance for work and disposition thereof
- § 53.1-43. Pay incentives for prisoners
- § 53.1-43.1. Inmate trust accounts
- § 53.1-44. Investment of funds belonging to prisoners; use of income
- § 53.1-45. Sale of prison goods and services; print shop
- § 53.1-45.1. Work programs; agreements with other entities
- § 53.1-45.2. Repealed
- § 53.1-46. Sale of artistic products
- § 53.1-47. Purchases by agencies, localities, and certain nonprofit organizations
- § 53.1-48. Exceptions as to purchases
- § 53.1-49. Evasion by variance from specifications of Director
- § 53.1-50. Vouchers, certificates and warrants not to be questioned
- § 53.1-51. Intentional violations constitute malfeasance
- § 53.1-52. Procedure for purchases
- § 53.1-53. Transfer or sale of by-products of manufacturing processes
- § 53.1-54. Charges and catalogue; annual estimates of requirements by departments, etc.
- § 53.1-55. Sale or exchange of goods manufactured by prisoners of other states
- § 53.1-56. Construction and maintenance of highways; grass cutting; acquisition of quarries, etc.; use of materials for county roads
- § 53.1-57. Payments by Department of Transportation to Director for labor
- § 53.1-58. Highway employees as guards
- § 53.1-59. Prisoners performing work for localities, state agencies or nonprofit civic organizations; payment of costs; foremen as guards
- § 53.1-60. Extending limits of confinement of state prisoners for work and educational programs; disposition of wages; support of certain dependents; penalties for violations
- § 53.1-60.1. Duties of Director in collecting court-imposed debt
- § 53.1-61. Determination whether prisoner has dependents receiving public assistance; payment of portion of earnings; remedies for enforcement of support obligation
- § 53.1-62. When ineligible for work release
Article 4. State Facilities for Youthful Offenders
- § 53.1-63. Department to establish facilities for persons committed under Article 2 (ยง 19.2-311 et seq.) of Chapter 18 of Title 19.2
- § 53.1-63.1. Department to establish facilities for juveniles sentenced as adults
- § 53.1-64. Programs and facilities
- § 53.1-65. Consideration of report developed at diagnostic facilities
- § 53.1-66. Transfer of prisoners to other facilities
- § 53.1-67. Admission to facility; good conduct allowance restricted
Article 5. Boot Camp Incarceration Program
Article 6. Statewide Community-Based Corrections System for State-Responsible Offenders
- § 53.1-67.2. Purpose
- § 53.1-67.3. Establishment of system
- § 53.1-67.4. Authority of Director; purchase of services authorized; location and notification
- § 53.1-67.5. Board to prescribe standards
- § 53.1-67.6. Minimum programs
Article 7. Diversion Center Incarceration Program
Article 8. Detention Center Incarceration Program
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