West Virginia Code
Chapter 28. State Correctional and Penal Institutions

Article 1. Commitment of Youthful Male Offenders

§28-1-1. Care of Youthful Male Offenders - The State Commissioner of Corrections shall be charged with the...

§28-1-2. Commitment; Age Limits; Physical, Educational and Psychological Examinations; Admission; Transfer and Placement - (a) Any male youth between the ages of 10 and...

§28-1-4. Conveyance of Boys; Expenses - As soon as practicable after a youth, on any account,...

§28-1-5. Rules and Regulations - The State Commissioner of Corrections shall have authority to make...

§28-1-6. Discharge or Parole; Arrest and Return of Paroled Boys - The state commissioner of public institutions shall have authority, under...

§28-1-7. Transfer of Boys to and From Penitentiary - In any case where a youth is committed to any...

§28-1-8. Offenses Relating to Youth Facilities; Penalties; Escape; Arrest and Return - If any person shall entice or attempt to entice away...

Article 2. Industrial School for Colored Boys

§28-2-1,. 28-2-2 - Repealed. Acts, 1969 Reg. Sess., Ch. 21.

Article 3. Industrial Home for Youth

§28-3-1. Renaming West Virginia Industrial Home for Youth as Salem Correctional Center; Transferring Control to Division of Corrections - (a) Effective July 1, 2013, the West Virginia Industrial Home...

Article 4. Industrial Home for Colored Girls

§28-4-1,. 28-4-2 - Repealed. Acts, 1969 Reg. Sess., Ch. 21.

Article 5. The Penitentiary

§28-5-31. Mentally Diseased Convicts; Treatment; Transfer Between Penal and Mental Health Facilities; Penal Facility Procedures - (a) No person who is, or was considered to be,...

§28-5-33. Appointment of Committee of Convict; Bond - When a person is confined in the penitentiary of this...

§28-5-34. When Estate Committed to Sheriff as Committee - If the person so appointed refuse the trust, or fail...

§28-5-35. Appraisement, Inventories and Accounts by and Compensation of Committee - The committee shall have the estate appraised, return inventories, render...

§28-5-36. Suits by or Against Convict or Committee - Such committee may sue and be sued in respect to...

§28-5-37. Maintenance of Convict's Wife and Family - The committee of any convict who was, at the time...

§28-5-38. Mortgage, Lease or Sale of Real Estate of Convicts - If the personal estate of such convict be insufficient for...

§28-5-39. Disposition of Estate on Discharge or Death of Convict - Every committee of a convict shall deliver such estate as...

§28-5-40. How Estate of Nonresident Convict Paid Over to Foreign Committee - The committee or other similar fiduciary appointed in any other...

Article 5C. Imprisonment of Female Felons

§28-5C-1. Closure of West Virginia Prison for Women - The West Virginia prison for women, a penal institution exclusively...

§28-5C-2. Commitment of Female Felons - Any adult female found guilty of committing a felony as...

Article 7. Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Adult Offenders

§28-7-1. Execution of Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Adult Offenders - The Governor of this state is authorized and directed to...

§28-7-2. State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision - (a) Within thirty days of the effective date of this...

§28-7-3. Appointment of Compact Administrator - (a) Upon and after the effective date of the interstate...

§28-7-4. Transfer Application Fee - On and after July 1, 2004, the Division of Corrections...