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§ 53.1-18. Department to have custody of property; right to sue to protect property - The Department shall have custody of both the real and...
§ 53.1-19. Establishment of correctional institutions - The Director shall determine the necessity for and select the...
§ 53.1-20. Commitment of convicted persons to custody of Director - A. Every person convicted of a felony committed before January...
§ 53.1-20.1. Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration - If the Director is unable to accommodate in a state...
§ 53.1-21. Transfer of prisoners into and between state and local correctional facilities - A. Any person who (i) is accused or convicted of...
§ 53.1-22. Misdemeanant suspected of having contagious disease - Whenever any court shall have reason to believe that a...
§ 53.1-23. Fingerprints, photographs and description - A. Photographs, fingerprints, and a description of each person received...
§ 53.1-23.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 669.
§ 53.1-23.2. Department to give notice of the receipt of certain prisoners - A. At the time of receipt of any prisoner for...
§ 53.1-24. Record of convictions and register to be kept - The Director shall file and preserve a copy of the...
§ 53.1-25. Director to prescribe rules; rules to be available to prisoners - The Director may prescribe rules for the preservation of state...
§ 53.1-25.1. Rules of state correctional facilities - A. The Director shall prescribe rules for state correctional facilities...
§ 53.1-26. Confiscation of prohibited articles - Any item of personal property which a prisoner in any...
§ 53.1-27. Establishment of stores in state correctional facilities - The Director is hereby authorized to provide for the establishment...
§ 53.1-28. Authority to fix discharge date; improper release; warrant, arrest and hearing - For the purpose of scheduling and providing a uniform, effective...
§ 53.1-29. Authority for correctional officers and other employees to carry weapons - It shall be lawful for any correctional officer and any...
§ 53.1-30. Who may enter interior of state correctional facilities; searches of those entering - A. The Governor and members of the General Assembly may...
§ 53.1-31. Sale or lease of gas, oil, or minerals - The Director is empowered to make and execute contracts, easements...
§ 53.1-31.1. Transportation of prisoners - A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department shall...
§ 53.1-31.2. Notification of child support due by a prisoner - The Department of Corrections shall cooperate with the Division of...
§ 53.1-31.3. Notification of incarcerated individuals ineligible for public assistance - The Department shall, at regular intervals but at least monthly,...
§ 53.1-31.4. Department of Corrections-issued identification - Prior to the release or discharge of any prisoner who...
§ 53.1-32. Treatment and control of prisoners; recreation; religious services - A. It shall be the general purpose of the state...
§ 53.1-32.01. Payment for bodily injury - The Director is authorized to establish administrative procedures for recovering...
§ 53.1-32.1. Classification system; program assignments; mandatory participation - A. The Director shall maintain a system of classification which...
§ 53.1-32.2. Reentry planning - The Department shall develop and implement, in cooperation with and...
§ 53.1-33. Physical examination of prisoner; ability to work - Each person received by the Department shall be examined by...
§ 53.1-33.1. Mandatory testing for human immunodeficiency virus - The Department shall offer to test each inmate, who does...
§ 53.1-34. Treatment of prisoner with contagious disease - The Director may, upon the application of the person in...
§ 53.1-35. Correspondence privileges; receipt of publications - The Director is authorized to prescribe reasonable rules regarding correspondence...
§ 53.1-35.1. Electronic visitation and messaging with inmates; fees - The Director is authorized to prescribe reasonable rules regarding electronic...
§ 53.1-35.2. Visitation of certain prisoners by minor dependents - A. The Director is authorized to prescribe reasonable rules regarding...
§ 53.1-36. Prisoners may assist in medical research programs - Subject to the provisions of Chapter 5.1 (§ 32.1-162.16 et...
§ 53.1-37. Furloughs generally; travel expenses; penalties for violations - A. The Director may extend the limits of confinement of...
§ 53.1-38. When ineligible for furloughs - Any prisoner who is convicted of a felony included within...
§ 53.1-39. Certain punishment of prisoners prohibited - Notwithstanding any provision of this Code or of any other...
§ 53.1-39.1. Restrictive housing; data collection and reporting; report - A. As used in this section: "Offender" means an adult...
§ 53.1-40. Appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners - The judge of a circuit court in whose county or...
§ 53.1-40.01. Conditional release of geriatric prisoners - Any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for...
§ 53.1-40.02. Conditional release of terminally ill prisoners - A. As used in this section, "terminally ill" means having...
§ 53.1-40.1. Medical and mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent - A. The Director or his designee may petition the circuit...
§ 53.1-40.2. Involuntary admission of prisoners with mental illness - A. Upon the petition of the Director or his designee,...
§ 53.1-40.3. Place of hearing or proceeding - Any hearing held by a court pursuant to § 53.1-40.1...
§ 53.1-40.4. Appeal of order authorizing involuntary admission - A. Any prisoner involuntarily committed pursuant to § 53.1-40.2 shall...
§ 53.1-40.5. Transfer of prisoner involuntarily admitted - Whenever a prisoner is admitted to a hospital or facility...
§ 53.1-40.6. Periodic review of prisoner for purposes of retention - The director of a hospital or facility shall require a...
§ 53.1-40.7. Discharge of prisoner involuntarily admitted - A. The prisoner shall be discharged from a hospital or...
§ 53.1-40.8. Fees and expenses - A. Any special justice, as defined in § 37.2-100, and...
§ 53.1-40.9. Civil admission proceeding prior to release - A prisoner whose release from the custody of the Department...
§ 53.1-40.10. Exchange of medical and mental health information and records - A. Whenever a person is committed to a state correctional...
§ 53.1-40.11. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 53.1-40.12. Treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant - A. The following restraints shall not be used on any...
§ 53.1-40.13. Treatment of prisoners during postpartum recovery - A. No restraints shall be used on any prisoner who...
§ 53.1-40.14. Reporting requirement - The warden or other official in charge of a state...
§ 53.1-40.15. Training of correctional facility employees regarding pregnant inmates - For correctional officers, and juvenile correctional officers who may have...
§ 53.1-40.16. Education for pregnant prisoners - The Department shall provide, to the extent practicable, educational programming...
§ 53.1-41. Opportunities for work and career and technical education - A. To the extent feasible, it shall be the duty...
§ 53.1-42. Allowance for work and disposition thereof - Every prisoner committed and transferred to the Department and thereafter...
§ 53.1-43. Pay incentives for prisoners - The Director may establish a system of pay incentives for...
§ 53.1-43.1. Inmate trust accounts - In addition to any other account established to hold funds...
§ 53.1-44. Investment of funds belonging to prisoners; use of income - Portions of the funds held by the Director or by...
§ 53.1-45. Sale of prison goods and services; print shop - A. Articles produced or manufactured and services provided by prisoners...
§ 53.1-45.1. Work programs; agreements with other entities - A. The Director, with the prior approval of the Governor,...
§ 53.1-45.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, cc. 94 and 854, cl. 2.
§ 53.1-46. Sale of artistic products - Subject to such rules as he may prescribe, the Director...
§ 53.1-47. Purchases by agencies, localities, and certain nonprofit organizations - Articles and services produced or manufactured by persons confined in...
§ 53.1-48. Exceptions as to purchases - A department, institution, or agency of the Commonwealth may be...
§ 53.1-49. Evasion by variance from specifications of Director - No department, institution or agency of the Commonwealth shall be...
§ 53.1-50. Vouchers, certificates and warrants not to be questioned - No voucher, certificate or warrant issued on the Comptroller by...
§ 53.1-51. Intentional violations constitute malfeasance - Intentional violations of §§ 53.1-47 through 53.1-49 and § 53.1-52...
§ 53.1-52. Procedure for purchases - All purchases, except for those of information technology and telecommunications...
§ 53.1-53. Transfer or sale of by-products of manufacturing processes - In those industries operated by the Department in which saleable...
§ 53.1-54. Charges and catalogue; annual estimates of requirements by departments, etc. - A. The Director shall establish charges for articles produced or...
§ 53.1-55. Sale or exchange of goods manufactured by prisoners of other states - It shall be unlawful for any person within this Commonwealth...
§ 53.1-56. Construction and maintenance of highways; grass cutting; acquisition of quarries, etc.; use of materials for county roads - Persons sentenced to the Department shall, so far as practicable,...
§ 53.1-57. Payments by Department of Transportation to Director for labor - The Department of Transportation shall pay to the Director monthly...
§ 53.1-58. Highway employees as guards - The Director, with the consent of the Commissioner of Highways,...
§ 53.1-59. Prisoners performing work for localities, state agencies or nonprofit civic organizations; payment of costs; foremen as guards - The Director is authorized to enter into agreements with the...
§ 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 - A. The Director is authorized to establish work release programs...
§ 53.1-60.1. Duties of Director in collecting court-imposed debt - Upon receipt of a valid court order or judgment against...
§ 53.1-61. Determination whether prisoner has dependents receiving public assistance; payment of portion of earnings; remedies for enforcement of support obligation - A. In order to determine whether a prisoner to be...
§ 53.1-62. When ineligible for work release - Any person who is released from confinement for work release...
§ 53.1-63. Department to establish facilities for persons committed under Article 2 (§ 19.2-311 et seq.) of Chapter 18 of Title 19.2 - A. The Department shall establish, staff and maintain, at any...
§ 53.1-63.1. Department to establish facilities for juveniles sentenced as adults - The Department shall establish, staff and maintain, at any state...
§ 53.1-64. Programs and facilities - The Department shall establish and maintain within each facility programs...
§ 53.1-65. Consideration of report developed at diagnostic facilities - The Department shall give careful consideration to the report developed...
§ 53.1-66. Transfer of prisoners to other facilities - Any person confined by the Department in a facility established...
§ 53.1-67. Admission to facility; good conduct allowance restricted - In no case shall a person previously confined in a...
§ 53.1-67.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2019, c. 618, cl. 2
§ 53.1-67.2. Purpose - The purposes of this article are to (i) provide effective...
§ 53.1-67.3. Establishment of system - The Director shall establish a statewide community-based system of programs,...
§ 53.1-67.4. Authority of Director; purchase of services authorized; location and notification - A. Facilities established under this article may, in the discretion...
§ 53.1-67.5. Director to prescribe standards - The Director shall prescribe standards for the development, implementation, operation,...
§ 53.1-67.6. Minimum programs - The Statewide Community-Based Corrections System shall include, but not be...
§ 53.1-67.7. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2019, c. 618, cl. 2
§ 53.1-67.8. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2019, c. 618, cl. 2
§ 53.1-67.9. Establishment of community corrections alternative program; supervision upon completion - The Department is authorized to establish and maintain a system...