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§ 53.1-68. Minimum standards for local correctional facilities and lock-ups; health inspections, behavioral health services inspections, and personnel - A. The Board shall establish minimum standards for the construction,...
§ 53.1-69. Board may prohibit confinement and require transfer of prisoners in substandard facilities - The Board is authorized to limit, by its order, the...
§ 53.1-69.1. Review of death of inmates in local correctional facilities - A. The Board shall have the power to review the...
§ 53.1-69.2. Administrative appeal of Board determinations - If the Board determines that a local correctional facility is...
§ 53.1-70. Jurisdiction of court to enforce orders of Board; proceedings - Any circuit court in any county or city which maintains...
§ 53.1-70.1. Transport of prisoners; authority - A. The sheriff or administrator in charge of a local...
§ 53.1-71. Courts to order jails erected and repaired - When it shall appear to the circuit court of any...
§ 53.1-71.1. Private construction, operation, etc., of regional jail facility - A. Any regional jail authority constituted pursuant to Article 3.1...
§ 53.1-71.2. Authority of security employees - Security employees of a regional jail facility contractor shall be...
§ 53.1-71.3. Application of certain criminal laws to contractor-operated facilities - All provisions of law establishing penalties for offenses committed against...
§ 53.1-71.4. Powers and duties not delegable to contractor - The regional jail authority issuing the contract shall retain the...
§ 53.1-71.5. Board to promulgate regulations - The Board shall make, adopt and promulgate regulations governing the...
§ 53.1-71.6. State reimbursement to localities - A. Reimbursement to participating localities for the cost of construction...
§ 53.1-72. Jails of counties and cities to be jails of courts therein - The jail of each county and city shall be the...
§ 53.1-73. When jail of county to be jail for town - Every town shall have the use of the jail of...
§ 53.1-74. When court may adopt jail of another county or city - When a county or city is without an adequate jail,...
§ 53.1-75. Procedure after adoption - The keeper of any jail so adopted for a county...
§ 53.1-76. Commitment to jail of another county or city; payment of costs, etc. - In any case should it become necessary or expedient for...
§ 53.1-77. Jurisdiction of judge or magistrate of adopting county or city authorized to issue temporary detention orders - When the jail of any other county or city has...
§ 53.1-78. Jail for Supreme Court - The jail of any county or city in which the...
§ 53.1-79. Jails for United States prisoners; payment by United States - The sheriff of any county or city or jail superintendent...
§ 53.1-79.1. Agreements to transfer, transport, and confine prisoners - The sheriff or superintendent of any jail may enter into...
§ 53.1-80. State reimbursement of localities for construction - A. On and after July 1, 1993, the Commonwealth shall...
§ 53.1-81. Construction and operation of regional jail facilities; state reimbursement; agreements with Department - A. Three or more cities or counties, or any combination...
§ 53.1-82. Regional contracts for cooperative jailing of offenders; state reimbursement - A. Three or more counties or cities, or any combination...
§ 53.1-82.1. Approval of jail projects by the Board; plan for community corrections - The Board shall promulgate regulations requiring localities seeking approval of...
§ 53.1-82.2. Method of reimbursement; involvement of the Treasury Board - A. Reimbursements by the Commonwealth to localities or regional jail...
§ 53.1-82.3. Budgeting schedule for jail projects - A. Any city or county or any combination of cities...
§ 53.1-83. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1993, cc. 387 and 787.
§ 53.1-83.1. How state appropriations for operating costs of local correctional facilities determined - The Governor's proposed biennial budget bill shall include, for each...
§ 53.1-84. State funds available to local correctional facilities for operating costs - The Compensation Board shall apportion among local correctional facilities moneys...
§ 53.1-85. Time and manner of payment - Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of this Code which provide for...
§ 53.1-86. Limitation on use of state funds; records of receipts and disbursements - No locality receiving state funds under § 53.1-85 shall use...
§ 53.1-87. Cost of maintenance of jails; payment by localities of respective shares of costs; judicial resolution of disagreements - A. In any instance in which a local correctional facility...
§ 53.1-88. Governing body to examine statements, accounts and invoices and issue warrants - The governing body of each city or county or its...
§ 53.1-89. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1983, c. 358.
§ 53.1-90. Pay for United States prisoners - Each sheriff or jail superintendent shall collect from the United...
§ 53.1-91. Pay for prisoners from other counties, cities or towns - Each sheriff or jail superintendent shall collect from the counties,...
§ 53.1-92. Disposition of money collected from United States or other counties, cities or towns - All moneys so collected by such sheriff from the United...
§ 53.1-93. When sheriffs to summon or employ guards and other persons; allowances therefor; fees charged to prisoner - Whenever in the discretion of the court it is necessary...
§ 53.1-94. Same when paid by county or city; same when by Compensation Board - The circuit court, before certifying any allowance pursuant to §...
§ 53.1-95. Provisions applicable to jail farms of counties and cities - A. When the control, management and supervision of the jail...
§ 53.1-95.1. Limits on state expenditures - The Governor may withhold approval for state expenditures, by reimbursement...
§ 53.1-95.2. Jail authority - The governing bodies of two or more counties, cities, or...
§ 53.1-95.3. Definitions - As used in this article, the following words and terms...
§ 53.1-95.4. Ordinance, agreement or resolution creating authority - A. Each such ordinance, agreement or resolution shall include the...
§ 53.1-95.5. Joinder of new subdivision; withdrawal from authority - Any political subdivision may become a member of any existing...
§ 53.1-95.6. Governing body - The powers of the authority shall be exercised by a...
§ 53.1-95.7. Powers of authority - Each authority created hereunder shall be deemed to be an...
§ 53.1-95.8. Authority of superintendent and jail officers; oath and bond; fees charged to prisoner - The superintendent appointed by an authority created pursuant to this...
§ 53.1-95.8:1. Handling of funds for regional correctional facility; county or city treasurer or director of finance as fiscal agent - Any authority constituted pursuant to the provisions of this article...
§ 53.1-95.9. Acquisition of interests in land - An authority created pursuant to this article is hereby authorized...
§ 53.1-95.10. Issuance of revenue bonds - An authority created pursuant to this article is hereby authorized...
§ 53.1-95.11. Trust agreements - In the discretion of an authority created pursuant to this...
§ 53.1-95.12. Charge for use of services - An authority created pursuant to this article is hereby authorized...
§ 53.1-95.13. Revenues and proceeds from sale of bonds - All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this article,...
§ 53.1-95.14. Rights of bond holders and trustees - Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this...
§ 53.1-95.15. Exemption from taxes - The exercise of the powers granted by this article shall...
§ 53.1-95.16. Issuance of revenue refunding bonds - The authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for...
§ 53.1-95.17. General purpose of an authority - Without limiting the generality of any provisions of this article,...
§ 53.1-95.18. Design-build contracts - An authority created pursuant to this article may enter into...
§ 53.1-95.19. State reimbursement - An authority created pursuant to this article shall be eligible...
§ 53.1-95.20. Duty to prescribe rules and regulations - It shall be the duty of an authority created pursuant...
§ 53.1-95.21. Supplemental and additional powers - The foregoing sections of this article shall be deemed to...
§ 53.1-95.22. Liberal construction - This article, being necessary for the welfare of the Commonwealth...
§ 53.1-95.23. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 709, cl. 2.
§ 53.1-95.24. Inconsistent laws inapplicable - All other general or special laws inconsistent with any provision...
§ 53.1-96. County and city farms; persons who may be confined - The governing body of any county or city may, within...
§ 53.1-97. Appointment of superintendent and guards - The governing body of the county or city establishing and...
§ 53.1-98. Authority of superintendent and guards - The superintendent shall have and exercise the same control and...
§ 53.1-99. Jurisdiction of offenses committed by prisoners - Whenever any farm is situated beyond the limits of the...
§ 53.1-100. Oath and bond of superintendent and guards - Before entering upon the duties of their office, the superintendent...
§ 53.1-101. Work by prisoners - All prisoners convicted and sentenced or transferred to a farm...
§ 53.1-102. Sending prisoners to other farms - Any county or city that has no farm may enter...
§ 53.1-103. Farm expenses - All expenses of maintaining a farm and supporting the prisoners...
§ 53.1-104. Funds from which expenses of transportation of person committed shall be paid; limitation upon cost of maintenance - The expenses of transporting a person committed to a county...
§ 53.1-104.1. Superintendents of jail farms to make monthly reports to Director - The superintendent of every jail farm shall report on the...
§ 53.1-105. County and city regional jail or jail farm; persons who may be confined; release and transfer of prisoners - Any combination of two or more counties or cities may...
§ 53.1-106. Members of jail or jail farm board or regional jail authority; powers; payment of pro rata costs - A. Each regional jail or jail farm shall be supervised...
§ 53.1-106.1. Location of jail facilities - No regional jail or jail farm board or authority created...
§ 53.1-107. Organization of board; annual report - The regional jail or jail farm board shall elect a...
§ 53.1-108. Expenses and allowance - Members of the regional jail or jail farm board shall...
§ 53.1-109. Authority of jail superintendent and jail officers; fees charged to prisoner - The jail superintendent shall have and exercise the same control...
§ 53.1-109.01. Authority for regional jail officers to carry weapons - It shall be lawful for any regional jail officer who...
§ 53.1-109.1. Handling of funds for regional jail or jail farm; county or city treasurer or director of finance as fiscal agent - Any regional jail or jail farm constituted pursuant to the...
§ 53.1-109.2. Regional jail superintendents not to be interested in private corrections enterprises - No regional jail superintendent shall also serve as an officer...
§ 53.1-110. Oath and bond of superintendent and jail officers - Before entering upon the duties of their office the superintendent...
§ 53.1-111. Work of prisoners - All prisoners convicted and sentenced or transferred to a jail...
§ 53.1-112. Jail or jail farm expenses - Except as provided in § 53.1-114, the expenses of operating...
§ 53.1-113. Transportation of prisoners to jail or jail farm - Except as provided in § 53.1-114, each political subdivision participating...
§ 53.1-114. Reimbursement of costs - Counties and cities or any combination thereof operating a regional...
§ 53.1-115. Payment of salaries of superintendents and medical and treatment personnel - The Commonwealth shall pay two-thirds of the salaries of the...
§ 53.1-115.1. Superintendents of regional jails and regional jail-farms to make daily reports to Compensation Board - The superintendent of every regional jail and every regional jail-farm...
§ 53.1-115.2. Establishment of stores in regional jails and regional jail farms - The superintendent of a regional jail or regional jail farm...
§ 53.1-116. What records and policy jailer shall keep; how time deducted or added for felons and misdemeanants; payment of fine and costs by person committed to jail until he pays - A. The jailer shall keep a (i) record describing each...
§ 53.1-116.1. Jailer to give notice of release of certain prisoners - A. Prior to the release or discharge of any prisoner...
§ 53.1-116.1:01. Jailer to give notice of intake of certain prisoners - A. At the time of intake of any prisoner, for...
§ 53.1-116.1:02. Jailer-issued identification - Prior to the release or discharge of any prisoner who...
§ 53.1-116.2. Sheriffs to be keepers of jails - The sheriff of each county or city shall be the...
§ 53.1-116.3. Improper release; capias, arrest and hearing - The sheriff or jail superintendent or his designee, upon the...
§ 53.1-117. Violations of rules to be recorded in register - Every time any prisoner in jail is guilty of a...
§ 53.1-118. Courts to fine sheriffs for failure to perform duties - If it appears to the circuit court having jurisdiction that...
§ 53.1-119. Court duties of sheriff - The sheriff shall provide officers to attend the courts within...
§ 53.1-120. Sheriff to provide for courthouse and courtroom security; designation of deputies for such purpose; assessment - A. Each sheriff shall ensure that the courthouses and courtrooms...
§ 53.1-121. Sheriffs to make daily reports to Compensation Board; failure to send report - The sheriff shall report each day to the Compensation Board,...
§ 53.1-122. Daily records of sheriffs and jail superintendents - Each sheriff and jail superintendent shall keep a daily record...
§ 53.1-123. Other accounts, information and records as required by Department - Sheriffs and jail superintendents shall keep such other accounts and...
§ 53.1-124. Sheriffs and jail superintendents to report to the courts - A. If requested by the judge, the sheriffs of all...
§ 53.1-125. Failure of sheriffs or jail superintendents to comply with requirements of board; filing of complaint; withholding salary - If any sheriff or jail superintendent through his default or...
§ 53.1-126. Responsibility of sheriffs and jail superintendents for food, clothing and medicine - The sheriff or jail superintendent shall purchase at prices as...
§ 53.1-127. Who may enter interior of local correctional facilities; searches of those entering - A. Members of the local governing bodies that participate in...
§ 53.1-127.1. Establishment of stores in local correctional facilities - Each sheriff who operates a correctional facility is authorized to...
§ 53.1-127.2. Fees for electronic visitation and messaging with prisoners in local correctional facilities - Each sheriff or jail superintendent who operates a correctional facility...
§ 53.1-127.3. Deferred or installment payment agreement for unpaid fees - If a person is unable to pay in full the...
§ 53.1-127.4. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2020, cc. 740 and 741, cl. 2.
§ 53.1-127.5. Collection of fees owed; contract for collection; duties of Department of Taxation - The sheriff or jail superintendent may (i) contract with private...
§ 53.1-128. Workforces and authorized work places - The local governing body of any county, city or town...
§ 53.1-129. Order permitting prisoners to work on state, county, city, town, certain private property or nonprofit organization property; bond of person in charge of prisoners - The circuit court of any county or city may, by...
§ 53.1-130. Sheriffs, jail superintendents, etc., not to be interested in property where work performed; penalty - No sheriff, jail superintendent, deputy or other jail officer shall...
§ 53.1-131. Provision for release of prisoner from confinement for employment, educational or other rehabilitative programs; escape; penalty; disposition of earnings - A. Any court having jurisdiction for the trial of a...
§ 53.1-131.1. Provision for sentencing of person to nonconsecutive days in jail; payment to defray costs; penalty - Any court having jurisdiction for the trial of a person...
§ 53.1-131.2. Assignment to a home/electronic incarceration program; payment to defray costs; escape; penalty - A. Any court having jurisdiction for the trial of a...
§ 53.1-131.3. Payment of costs associated with prisoners' keep - Any sheriff or jail superintendent may establish a program to...
§ 53.1-132. Furloughs from local work release programs; penalty for violations - The director of any work release program authorized by §...
§ 53.1-133. Treatment of prisoner with contagious disease - Upon application of the person in charge of a local...
§ 53.1-133.01. Medical treatment for prisoners - Any sheriff or superintendent may establish a medical treatment program...
§ 53.1-133.01:1. Payment for bodily injury - Each jail superintendent or sheriff who operates a correctional facility...
§ 53.1-133.02. Notice to be given upon prisoner release, escape, etc. - Prior to the release, including work release, or discharge of...
§ 53.1-133.03. Exchange of medical and mental health information and records - A. Whenever a person is committed to a local or...
§ 53.1-133.04. Medical and mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent - A. The sheriff or administrator in charge of a local...
§ 53.1-133.05. Place of hearing on medical or mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent; fees and expenses - A. Any hearing held by a court pursuant to §...
§ 53.1-133.1. Definition - As used in this article unless the context requires otherwise...
§ 53.1-133.2. Establishment of jail industry programs - The sheriff or jail superintendent operating a local correctional facility,...
§ 53.1-133.3. Eligibility to participate - Any person under the custody of a sheriff or jail...
§ 53.1-133.4. Participant compensation - A. The sheriff or jail superintendent shall establish an amount...
§ 53.1-133.5. Disposition of money collected and payment of expenses for jail industry program - A. Any county, city or town that implements a jail...
§ 53.1-133.6. Restriction on sale of jail industry program goods and services; print shop - A. Articles produced or manufactured and services provided by participants...
§ 53.1-133.7. Sale of artistic products - Subject to such rules as he may prescribe, the sheriff...
§ 53.1-133.8. Purchases by agencies, localities, and certain nonprofit organizations - Articles and services produced or manufactured by participants in jail...
§ 53.1-133.9. Charges; advertisement and marketing - A. The sheriff or jail superintendent, or his designee, shall...
§ 53.1-133.10. (See Editor's note) Compact; transport of prisoners to and from medical facilities across state boundaries; Governor to execute - The Governor is authorized and requested to execute, on behalf...