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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56500</law_id><section_number>53.1-43</section_number><catch_line>Pay incentives for prisoners</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>53.1-190</reference><reference>53.1-32.1</reference></referred_to_by><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>The <span class="dictionary">Director</span> may establish a system of pay incentives for prisoners confined in any <span class="dictionary">state correctional facility</span>. Such system may provide for the payment of a bonus to any prisoner who is assigned to employment in any position of responsibility or who performs his job in an exemplary manner.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 53-222; 1968, c. 590; 1982, c. 636; 2020, c. 759.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
