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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86161</law_id><section_number>18.2-473</section_number><catch_line>Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-474</reference><reference>18.2-474.1</reference><reference>19.2-81.2</reference></referred_to_by><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>When a person is lawfully detained as a prisoner in any jail or prison or held in <span class="dictionary">custody</span>, or when a child is placed in a local juvenile detention home, or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenile correctional center, or Reception and Diagnostic Center for Children or held in <span class="dictionary">custody</span>, if any person: (1) conveys anything into the jail, prison, juvenile detention home, juvenile correctional center or Reception and Diagnostic Center for Children with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to facilitate a person&#x2019;s escape therefrom, (2) in any way aids such prisoner or child to escape, or in an attempt to escape, from such jail, prison, juvenile detention home, juvenile correctional center, Reception and Diagnostic Center for Children or <span class="dictionary">custody</span>, or (3) forcibly takes, or attempts to take him therefrom, such person, if the taking or escape is effected, shall, if the prisoner or child was detained on <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>, commitment or charge of <span class="dictionary">felony</span>, be confined in a state correctional facility not less than one year nor more than five years. If the same is not effected, or if the prisoner or child was not detained on such <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>, commitment or charge, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-284; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1984, c. 587; 1989, c. 733; 1996, cc. 755, 914.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
