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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63102</law_id><section_number>53.1-43.1</section_number><catch_line>Inmate trust accounts</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="2">State Correctional Facilities</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Employment and Training of Prisoners</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In addition to any other account established to hold funds for inmates, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall establish for each inmate a personal trust account. Unless an inmate has been sentenced to be executed, is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of <span class="dictionary">parole</span>, or is sentenced to a term that makes him ineligible for release, excluding the conditional release of geriatric prisoners pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Conditional release of geriatric prisoners" href="/53.1-40.01/">53.1-40.01</a>, prior to 75 years of age, 10 percent of any funds received by an inmate from any source shall be deposited by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> in the inmate&#x2019;s personal trust account until the account has a balance of $1,000. When the inmate&#x2019;s personal trust account reaches $1,000, any funds received by the inmate shall be deposited in the inmate&#x2019;s other account.
		An inmate may direct the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> at any time to deposit a portion or all of any funds received by him in the inmate&#x2019;s personal trust account. After the balance of a personal trust account has exceeded $1,000, an inmate may direct the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> to transfer funds from his personal trust account to any other account maintained for him; provided, however, that the balance of the personal trust account shall not fall below $1,000.
		Funds in an inmate&#x2019;s personal trust account shall be paid to the inmate upon <span class="dictionary">parole</span> or final discharge.</p></section></text><history>2011, cc. 260, 284; 2017, c. 205.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
