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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80656</law_id><section_number>18.2-473.1</section_number><catch_line>Communication with prisoners or committed person; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="10">Crimes Against the Administration of Justice</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Escape of, Communications with and Deliveries to Prisoners</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>It shall be unlawful for any person outside of any state or local correctional facility or any juvenile correctional center, other than the jailers or custodial officers in charge of the prisoners or in charge of the persons committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice, to communicate without authority by word or sign with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to disrupt institutional operations with any prisoner confined within a state or local correctional facility or with any person committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenile correctional center. Any person violating this section is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>1982, c. 636; 2000, c. 286; 2013, cc. 707, 782.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
