Virginia Code — 53.1
Browse 403 sections in division 53.1 of the Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
Sections (showing up to 300)
- § 53.1-1. Definitions
- § 53.1-1.01. Certified mail; subsequent mail or notices may be sent by regular mail
- § 53.1-1.1. Telephone systems within correctional facilities
- § 53.1-1.2. Visitation policies
- § 53.1-2. Appointment of members; qualifications; terms and vacancies
- § 53.1-3. Persons ineligible for appointment
- § 53.1-4. Meetings; quorum; officers; main office
- § 53.1-5. Powers and duties of Board
- § 53.1-5.1. Repealed
- § 53.1-5.2. Compilation of certain data for redistricting purposes
- § 53.1-6. Board may administer oaths, conduct hearings, and issue subpoenas
- § 53.1-6.1. Executive director; staff; compensation
- § 53.1-7. Repealed
- § 53.1-8. Department of Corrections
- § 53.1-9. Appointment of Director; term
- § 53.1-10. Powers and duties of Director
- § 53.1-11. Bond of Director
- § 53.1-12. Divisions of Department; division heads
- § 53.1-13. Bonds of agents and employees
- § 53.1-14. Repealed
- § 53.1-15. Repealed
- § 53.1-16. Repealed
- § 53.1-17. Defense of Department of Corrections employees
- § 53.1-17.1. Continuous quality improvement committee; report
- § 53.1-17.2. Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; powers and duties
- § 53.1-17.3. Corrections Oversight Committee; membership; authority
- § 53.1-17.4. Access to facilities and records
- § 53.1-17.5. Communications; confidentiality
- § 53.1-17.6. Inspection authority; inspection and assessment; report; safety and compliance classification
- § 53.1-17.7. Authority to investigate complaints
- § 53.1-17.8. Annual report
- § 53.1-17.9. Inmate and family support services
- § 53.1-17.10. Exhaustion of remedies
- § 53.1-18. Department 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 Repealed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
- § 53.1-31.4. (Effective until July 1, 2026) Department of Corrections-issued identification
- § 53.1-31.4. (Effective July 1, 2026) Government-issued identification; Department of Corrections-issued identification
- § 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
- § 53.1-35.2. Visitation of certain prisoners by minor dependents
- § 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
- § 53.1-39.1. Restrictive housing; data collection and reporting; report
- § 53.1-39.2. Restorative housing; restrictions on use
- § 53.1-39.3. Use of canines in state correctional facilities; prohibited acts; policies and regulations made public; incidents of use of canines reported; exception
- § 53.1-40. Appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners
- § 53.1-40.01. Conditional release of geriatric prisoners
- § 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
- § 53.1-40.02. Conditional release of terminally ill prisoners
- § 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
- § 53.1-40.11. Definitions
- § 53.1-40.12. Treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant
- § 53.1-40.13. Treatment of prisoners during postpartum recovery
- § 53.1-40.14. Reporting requirement
- § 53.1-40.15. Training of correctional facility employees regarding pregnant inmates
- § 53.1-40.16. Education for pregnant 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
- § 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
- § 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
- § 53.1-67.1. Repealed
- § 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. Director to prescribe standards
- § 53.1-67.6. Minimum programs
- § 53.1-67.7. Repealed
- § 53.1-67.8. Repealed
- § 53.1-67.9. Establishment of community corrections alternative program; supervision upon completion
- § 53.1-68. Minimum standards for local correctional facilities and lock-ups; health inspections, behavioral health services inspections, and personnel
- § 53.1-69. Board may prohibit confinement and require transfer of prisoners in substandard facilities
- § 53.1-69.1. Review of death of inmates in local, regional, or community correctional facilities
- § 53.1-69.2. Administrative appeal of Board determinations
- § 53.1-70. Jurisdiction of court to enforce orders of Board; proceedings
- § 53.1-70.1. Transport of prisoners; authority
- § 53.1-71. Courts to order jails erected and repaired
- § 53.1-71.1. Private construction, maintenance, etc., of regional jail facility
- § 53.1-71.2. Authority of security employees
- § 53.1-71.3. Application of certain criminal laws to contractor-operated facilities
- § 53.1-71.4. Powers and duties not delegable to contractor
- § 53.1-71.5. Board to promulgate regulations
- § 53.1-71.6. State reimbursement to localities
- § 53.1-72. Jails of counties and cities to be jails of courts therein
- § 53.1-73. When jail of county to be jail for town
- § 53.1-74. When court may adopt jail of another county or city
- § 53.1-75. Procedure after adoption
- § 53.1-76. Commitment to jail of another county or city; payment of costs, etc
- § 53.1-77. Jurisdiction of judge or magistrate of adopting county or city authorized to issue temporary detention orders
- § 53.1-78. Jail for Supreme Court
- § 53.1-79. Jails for United States prisoners; payment by United States
- § 53.1-79.1. Agreements to transfer, transport, and confine prisoners
- § 53.1-80. State reimbursement of localities for construction
- § 53.1-81. Construction and operation of regional jail facilities; state reimbursement; agreements with Department
- § 53.1-82. Regional contracts for cooperative jailing of offenders; state reimbursement
- § 53.1-82.1. Approval of jail projects by the Board; plan for community corrections
- § 53.1-82.2. Method of reimbursement; involvement of the Treasury Board
- § 53.1-82.3. Budgeting schedule for jail projects
- § 53.1-83. Repealed
- § 53.1-83.1. How state appropriations for operating costs of local correctional facilities determined
- § 53.1-84. State funds available to local correctional facilities for operating costs
- § 53.1-85. Time and manner of payment
- § 53.1-86. Limitation on use of state funds; records of receipts and disbursements
- § 53.1-87. Cost of maintenance of jails; payment by localities of respective shares of costs; judicial resolution of disagreements
- § 53.1-88. Governing body to examine statements, accounts and invoices and issue warrants
- § 53.1-89. Repealed
- § 53.1-90. Pay for United States prisoners
- § 53.1-91. Pay for prisoners from other counties, cities or towns
- § 53.1-92. Disposition of money collected from United States or other counties, cities or towns
- § 53.1-93. When sheriffs to summon or employ guards and other persons; allowances therefor; fees charged to prisoner
- § 53.1-94. Same when paid by county or city; same when by Compensation Board
- § 53.1-95. Provisions applicable to jail farms of counties and cities
- § 53.1-95.1. Limits on state expenditures
- § 53.1-95.2. Jail authority
- § 53.1-95.3. Definitions
- § 53.1-95.4. Ordinance, agreement or resolution creating authority
- § 53.1-95.5. Joinder of new subdivision; withdrawal from authority
- § 53.1-95.6. Governing body
- § 53.1-95.7. Powers of authority
- § 53.1-95.8. Authority of superintendent and jail officers; oath and bond; fees charged to prisoner
- § 53.1-95.8:1. Handling of funds for regional correctional facility; county or city treasurer or director of finance as fiscal agent
- § 53.1-95.9. Acquisition of interests in land
- § 53.1-95.10. Issuance of revenue bonds
- § 53.1-95.11. Trust agreements
- § 53.1-95.12. Charge for use of services
- § 53.1-95.13. Revenues and proceeds from sale of bonds
- § 53.1-95.14. Rights of bond holders and trustees
- § 53.1-95.15. Exemption from taxes
- § 53.1-95.16. Issuance of revenue refunding bonds
- § 53.1-95.17. General purpose of an authority
- § 53.1-95.18. Design-build contracts
- § 53.1-95.19. State reimbursement
- § 53.1-95.20. Duty to prescribe rules and regulations
- § 53.1-95.21. Supplemental and additional powers
- § 53.1-95.22. Liberal construction
- § 53.1-95.23. Repealed
- § 53.1-95.24. Inconsistent laws inapplicable
- § 53.1-96. County and city farms; persons who may be confined
- § 53.1-97. Appointment of superintendent and guards
- § 53.1-98. Authority of superintendent and guards
- § 53.1-99. Jurisdiction of offenses committed by prisoners
- § 53.1-100. Oath and bond of superintendent and guards
- § 53.1-101. Work by prisoners
- § 53.1-102. Sending prisoners to other farms
- § 53.1-103. Farm expenses
- § 53.1-104. Funds from which expenses of transportation of person committed shall be paid; limitation upon cost of maintenance
- § 53.1-104.1. Superintendents of jail farms to make monthly reports to Director
- § 53.1-105. County and city regional jail or jail farm; persons who may be confined; release and transfer of prisoners
- § 53.1-106. Members of jail or jail farm board or regional jail authority; powers; payment of pro rata costs
- § 53.1-106.1. Location of jail facilities
- § 53.1-107. Organization of board; annual report
- § 53.1-108. Expenses and allowance
- § 53.1-109. Authority of jail superintendent and jail officers; fees charged to prisoner
- § 53.1-109.01. Authority for regional jail officers to carry weapons
- § 53.1-109.1. Handling of funds for regional jail or jail farm; county or city treasurer or director of finance as fiscal agent
- § 53.1-109.2. Regional jail superintendents not to be interested in private corrections enterprises
- § 53.1-110. Oath and bond of superintendent and jail officers
- § 53.1-111. Work of prisoners
- § 53.1-112. Jail or jail farm expenses
- § 53.1-113. Transportation of prisoners to jail or jail farm
- § 53.1-114. Reimbursement of costs
- § 53.1-115. Payment of salaries of superintendents and medical and treatment personnel
- § 53.1-115.1. Superintendents of regional jails and regional jail-farms to make daily reports to Compensation Board
- § 53.1-115.2. Establishment of stores in regional jails and regional jail farms
- § 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
- § 53.1-116.1. Jailer to give notice of release of certain prisoners
- § 53.1-116.1:01. Jailer to give notice of intake of certain prisoners
- § 53.1-116.1:02. Jailer-issued identification
- § 53.1-116.2. Sheriffs to be keepers of jails
- § 53.1-116.2:1. Jail superintendents to report certain acts of violence occurring within regional correctional facilities to law-enforcement agency; policies
- § 53.1-116.3. Improper release; capias, arrest and hearing
- § 53.1-117. Violations of rules to be recorded in register
- § 53.1-118. Courts to fine sheriffs for failure to perform duties
- § 53.1-119. Court duties of sheriff
- § 53.1-120. Sheriff to provide for courthouse and courtroom security; designation of deputies for such purpose; assessment
- § 53.1-121. Sheriffs to make daily reports to Compensation Board; failure to send report
- § 53.1-122. Daily records of sheriffs and jail superintendents
- § 53.1-123. Other accounts, information and records as required by Department
- § 53.1-124. Sheriffs and jail superintendents to report to the courts
- § 53.1-125. Failure of sheriffs or jail superintendents to comply with requirements of board; filing of complaint; withholding salary
- § 53.1-126. Responsibility of sheriffs and jail superintendents for food, clothing and medicine
- § 53.1-127. Who may enter interior of local correctional facilities; searches of those entering
- § 53.1-127.1. Establishment of stores in local correctional facilities
- § 53.1-127.2. Fees for telephonic communication systems and electronic visitation and messaging systems for prisoners in local correctional facilities
- § 53.1-127.3. Deferred or installment payment agreement for unpaid fees
- § 53.1-127.4. Repealed
- § 53.1-127.5. Collection of fees owed; contract for collection; duties of Department of Taxation
- § 53.1-128. Workforces and authorized work places
- § 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
- § 53.1-130. Sheriffs, jail superintendents, etc., not to be interested in property where work performed; penalty
- § 53.1-131. Provision for release of prisoner from confinement for employment, educational or other rehabilitative programs; escape; penalty; disposition of earnings
- § 53.1-131.1. Provision for sentencing of person to nonconsecutive days in jail; payment to defray costs; penalty
- § 53.1-131.2. Assignment to a home/electronic incarceration program; payment to defray costs; escape; penalty
- § 53.1-131.3. Payment of costs associated with prisoners' keep
- § 53.1-132. Furloughs from local work release programs; penalty for violations
- § 53.1-133. Treatment of prisoner with contagious disease
- § 53.1-133.01. Medical treatment for prisoners
- § 53.1-133.01:1. Payment for bodily injury
- § 53.1-133.02. Notice to be given upon prisoner release, escape, etc
- § 53.1-133.03. Exchange of medical and mental health information and records
- § 53.1-133.04. Medical and mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent
- § 53.1-133.05. Place of hearing on medical or mental health treatment of prisoners incapable of giving consent; fees and expenses
- § 53.1-133.06. Definitions
- § 53.1-133.07. Treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant
- § 53.1-133.08. Treatment of prisoners during postpartum recovery
- § 53.1-133.09. Training of deputy sheriffs and jail officers regarding pregnant prisoners
- § 53.1-133.1. Definition
- § 53.1-133.2. Establishment of jail industry programs
- § 53.1-133.3. Eligibility to participate
- § 53.1-133.4. Participant compensation
- § 53.1-133.5. Disposition of money collected and payment of expenses for jail industry program
- § 53.1-133.6. Restriction on sale of jail industry program goods and services; print shop
- § 53.1-133.7. Sale of artistic products
- § 53.1-133.8. Purchases by agencies, localities, and certain nonprofit organizations
- § 53.1-133.9. Charges; advertisement and marketing
- § 53.1-133.10. (See Editor's note) Compact; transport of prisoners to and from medical facilities across state boundaries; Governor to execute
- § 53.1-134. Virginia Parole Board; appointment of members
- § 53.1-134.1. Board decisions; voting requirements
- § 53.1-135. Chairman; Vice-Chairman of Board
- § 53.1-136. Powers and duties of Board; notice of release of certain inmates; report
- § 53.1-137. Revocation hearings and subpoenas; penalty for disobeying subpoena or hindering hearing
- § 53.1-138. Access to prisoners; reports of prison officials
- § 53.1-139. Powers and duties of Chairman
- § 53.1-139.1. Repealed
- § 53.1-140. Powers and duties of Director of Department
- § 53.1-140.1. Department to provide services
- § 53.1-141. Division into probation and parole districts
- § 53.1-142. Assignments of officers to districts
- § 53.1-143. How officers authorized
- § 53.1-144. Term of officers
- § 53.1-145. Powers and duties of probation and parole officers
- § 53.1-146. Use of officers as to persons convicted of local violations; payment of expenses
- § 53.1-147. Compensation; expenses
- § 53.1-148. Transfer of supervision from one probation officer to another
- § 53.1-149. Arrest of probationer without warrant; written statement; timeframe for service of process
- § 53.1-150. Contributions by persons on parole, probation, and work release
- § 53.1-150.1. Contribution by persons on parole