Virginia § 53.1-42 - Allowance for work and disposition thereof
Full text of Virginia Code of Virginia § 53.1-42 — Allowance for work and disposition thereof, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 53.1-42. Allowance for work and disposition thereof
Every prisoner committed and transferred to the Department and thereafter confined for the sentence for which he was committed in a state or local correctional facility shall be allowed an amount to be established by the Director for each day of labor satisfactory to the superintendent or sheriff in whose charge he is. The allowance so made shall accumulate and be paid over to the prisoner upon discharge, except that an amount thereof to be determined by the Director may be drawn upon by the prisoner for such purposes as may be authorized by the regulations of the Director.
For the purposes of this section only, the phrase "transferred to the Department" means (i) the actual physical receipt by the Department of a prisoner in a state correctional facility or (ii) the complete processing by the Department of a prisoner for the purposes of classifying the person as a state prisoner whether or not the person is physically received into a state correctional facility.
Code 1950, § 53-220.1; 1970, c. 339; 1982, c. 636; 2020, c. 759.
Source: official Virginia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 53.1-42 ("Allowance for work and disposition thereof") is part of the Code of Virginia, the codified statutory law of Virginia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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