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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63979</law_id><section_number>18.2-48.1</section_number><catch_line>Abduction by prisoners or committed persons; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-513</reference><reference>19.2-386.32</reference><reference>2.2-515.2</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="4">Crimes Against the Person</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Kidnapping and Related Offenses</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person confined in a state, local, or community correctional facility or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenile correctional center, or in the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of an employee thereof, or who has escaped from any such facility or from any person in charge of such prisoner or committed person, who abducts or takes any person hostage is guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>1985, c. 526; 1986, c. 414; 2013, cc. 707, 782.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
