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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64292</law_id><section_number>53.1-101</section_number><catch_line>Work by prisoners</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="53.1">Prisons and Other Methods of Correction</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Local Correctional Facilities</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">County and City Farms</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All prisoners convicted and sentenced or transferred to a farm shall be required to work on the farm, unless for good cause shown, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> sentencing and committing such prisoners shall <span class="dictionary">order</span> otherwise.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-201; 1970, c. 648; 1079, c. 700; 1982, c. 636.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
