§ 18.2-476. Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting person convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of a nonfelonious offense to escape or willfully refusing to receive person; penalty
If any sheriff, jailer, or other officer, or any guard or other person summoned or employed by such sheriff, jailer, or other officer, willfully and deliberately permits a prisoner or person committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of an offense not a felony, to escape from his […]
§ 18.2-477. Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
If any person confined in jail or in custody after conviction of a criminal offense shall escape by force or violence, other than by setting fire thereto, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. The term of confinement under this section shall commence from the expiration of the former sentence. Code 1950, § […]
§ 18.2-477.1. Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to escape or remain away without proper authority from a group home or other residential care facility for children in need of services, delinquent or alleged delinquent youths in which he had been placed by the juvenile and domestic relations court or as a result of his […]
§ 18.2-477.2. Punishment for certain offenses committed within a secure juvenile facility or detention home
It shall be unlawful for a person committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenile correctional center or detained in a secure juvenile facility or detention home to commit any of the offenses enumerated in § 53.1-203. A violation of this section shall be punishable as a Class 6 felony, except that a […]
§ 18.2-478. Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail
If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail and not tried or sentenced on a criminal offense escapes from jail by force or violence, other than by setting fire thereto or if any person lawfully in the custody of any police officer on a charge of criminal offense escapes from such custody by force or violence, […]
§ 18.2-479. Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail
A. Except as provided in subsection B, any person lawfully confined in jail or lawfully in the custody of any court, officer of the court, or of any law-enforcement officer for violation of his probation or parole or on a charge or conviction of a misdemeanor, who escapes, other than by force or violence or […]
§ 18.2-479.1. Repealed
Repealed by Acts 2018, c. 417, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-480. Escape, etc., by setting fire to jail
If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail escape, or attempt to escape therefrom, by setting fire thereto, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony. Code 1950, § 18.1-291; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
§ 18.2-480.1. Admissibility of records of Department of Corrections in escape cases
In any prosecution for, or preliminary hearing for, the offense of escape under this article or Title 53.1, the records maintained by the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, when such records are duly attested by the custodian of such records, shall be admissible in evidence as evidence of the fact, location […]
§ 18.2-473.2. Covering a security camera in a correctional facility; penalty
A. As used in this section, “security camera” means an analog or digital photographic or video camera or other device capable of recording or transmitting a photograph, motion picture, or other digital image that has been installed in a state or local correctional facility or any juvenile correctional center. B. Any person who intentionally covers, […]