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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76202</law_id><section_number>53.1-67.3</section_number><catch_line>Establishment of system</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="6">Statewide Community-Based Corrections System for State-Responsible Offenders</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Director</span> shall establish a statewide community-based system of programs, services and residential and nonresidential facilities for (i) those state-responsible offenders convicted of felonies and sentenced to alternative forms of punishment and (ii) those state-responsible offenders who the <span class="dictionary">Director</span> has determined, after a period of incarceration in a state or <span class="dictionary">local correctional facility</span>, require less secure confinement or a lower level of supervision. Facilities established pursuant to this article may be partially or completely physically restrictive with varying levels and types of offender control.</p></section></text><history>1994, 2nd Sp. Sess., cc. 1, 2.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
