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§ 53.1-32. Treatment and control of prisoners; recreation; religious services

A. It shall be the general purpose of the state correctional facilities to provide proper employment, training and education in accordance with this title, medical and mental health care and treatment, discipline and control of prisoners committed or transferred thereto. The health service program established to provide medical services to prisoners shall provide for appropriate […]

§ 53.1-32.01. Payment for bodily injury

The Director is authorized to establish administrative procedures for recovering from an inmate the cost for medical treatment of a bodily injury that is inflicted intentionally on any person by the inmate. Such administrative procedures shall ensure that the inmate is afforded due process. 1997, c. 125; 2020, c. 759.

§ 53.1-32.1. Classification system; program assignments; mandatory participation

A. The Director shall maintain a system of classification which (i) evaluates all prisoners according to background, aptitude, education, and risk and (ii) based on an assessment of needs, determines appropriate program assignments including career and technical education, work activities and employment, academic activities which at a minimum meet the requirements of § 66-13.1, counseling, […]

§ 53.1-32.2. Reentry planning

The Department shall develop and implement, in cooperation with and taking into account the individual needs and willingness to participate of the inmate, a comprehensive reentry plan for each person committed to the supervision of the Department, as soon as practicable, considering the prisoner’s anticipated release date. Such plan shall identify educational, vocational, therapeutic, and […]

§ 53.1-33. Physical examination of prisoner; ability to work

Each person received by the Department shall be examined by a licensed physician upon his arrival, within 30 days prior to any work assignment in food services, medical services, or cosmetological services or a change in work assignment, and at such other times thereafter as may be deemed necessary. The work that a prisoner is […]

§ 53.1-33.1. Mandatory testing for human immunodeficiency virus

The Department shall offer to test each inmate, who does not have a record of a positive test result, for infection with human immunodeficiency virus within 60 days of the scheduled discharge of the inmate from a state correctional facility. Prior to administering a test for human immunodeficiency virus, the Department shall inform, or cause […]

§ 53.1-34. Treatment of prisoner with contagious disease

The Director may, upon the application of the person in charge of any state correctional facility who has been requested in writing so to do by the physician at such facility, have removed from such facility any prisoner therein who has contracted any contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the public health to some place […]

§ 53.1-35.1. Electronic visitation and messaging with inmates; fees

The Director is authorized to prescribe reasonable rules regarding electronic visitation systems or electronic messaging systems, including Voice-over-Internet Protocol technology and web-based communication systems, for communication between prisoners and third parties and collection of a fee for the system utilized. Any state correctional facility that utilizes such systems shall establish such system allowing for the […]

§ 53.1-35.2. Visitation of certain prisoners by minor dependents

A. The Director is authorized to prescribe reasonable rules regarding visitation that shall include authorization of visitation by minor dependents of prisoners who are primary caretakers of minor children with Level 1 or Level 2 security classifications that include (i) opportunities for dependent children under the age of 18 to visit their incarcerated primary caretakers […]

§ 53.1-36. Prisoners may assist in medical research programs

Subject to the provisions of Chapter 5.1 (§ 32.1-162.16 et seq.) of Title 32.1, the Director may permit such prisoners as may volunteer to undergo experimental treatment or tests in state or federal medical research programs. Code 1950, § 53-57.1; 1962, c. 48; 1982, c. 636; 1992, c. 603.

§ 53.1-37. Furloughs generally; travel expenses; penalties for violations

A. The Director may extend the limits of confinement of any prisoner in any state correctional facility to permit him a furlough under the provisions of this section for the purpose of visiting his home or family. Such furlough shall be for a period to be prescribed by the Director or his designee, in his […]

§ 53.1-38. When ineligible for furloughs

Any prisoner who is convicted of a felony included within the provisions of Chapter 4 (§ 18.2-30 et seq.) of Title 18.2 or arson, burglary or robbery committed while on administrative furlough, shall, after conviction therefor, be ineligible for further furlough during the remainder of the sentence or sentences imposed upon him prior to furlough. […]

§ 53.1-39. Certain punishment of prisoners prohibited

Notwithstanding any provision of this Code or of any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for the Director, the Board, or any other correctional authority having the care, custody, or control of any prisoner in this Commonwealth to make or enforce any rule or regulation providing for the whipping, […]

§ 53.1-39.1. Restrictive housing; data collection and reporting; report

A. As used in this section: “Offender” means an adult or juvenile who is confined in a state correctional facility. “Restrictive housing” means special-purpose bed assignments operated under maximum security regulations and procedures, and utilized under proper administrative process, for the personal protection or custodial management of offenders. The Department of Corrections’ restrictive housing shall, […]

§ 53.1-40. Appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners

The judge of a circuit court in whose county or city a state correctional facility is located shall, on motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth for such county or city, when he is requested so to do by the superintendent or warden of a state correctional facility, appoint, for a period of no less […]

§ 53.1-40.01. Conditional release of geriatric prisoners

Any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, (i) who has reached the age of sixty-five or older and who has served at least five years of the sentence imposed or (ii) who has reached the age of sixty or older and who has […]

§ 53.1-40.02. Conditional release of terminally ill prisoners

A. As used in this section, “terminally ill” means having a chronic or progressive medical condition caused by injury, disease, or illness where the medical prognosis is the person’s death within 12 months. B. Any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense, except as provided in subsection C, who is […]