                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHAT RECORDS AND POLICY JAILER SHALL KEEP; HOW TIME DEDUCTED OR ADDED FOR FELONS
AND MISDEMEANANTS; PAYMENT OF FINE AND COSTS BY PERSON COMMITTED TO JAIL UNTIL
HE PAYS (§ 53.1-116)

A. The jailer shall keep a (i) record describing each person committed to jail,
the terms of confinement, for what offense or cause he was committed, and when
received into jail; (ii) record of each prisoner; and (iii) written policy
stating the criteria for and conditions of earned credit in the facility and the
revocation of such credit.
			Unless he is serving a mandatory minimum sentence of confinement, each
prisoner sentenced to 12 months or less for a misdemeanor or any combination of
misdemeanors shall earn good conduct credit at the rate of one day for each one
day served, including all days served while confined in jail prior to conviction
and sentencing, in which the prisoner has not violated the written rules and
regulations of the jail.
			Prisoners eligible for parole under &#xA7; 53.1-151, 53.1-152 or 53.1-153
shall earn good conduct credit at a rate of 15 days for each 30 days served with
satisfactory conduct.
			The jailer may grant the prisoner additional credits for performance of
institutional work assignments, participation in classes, or participation in
local work force programs, if available at the facility, at the rate of five
days for every 30 days served. The time so deducted shall be allowed to each
prisoner for such time as he is confined in jail. It shall be the responsibility
of the jailer in each facility to determine the manner in which these additional
credits may be awarded and to include this information in the written policy
mandated by clause (iii) of this subsection.
			For each violation of the rules prescribed herein, the time so deducted shall
be added until it equals the full sentence imposed upon the prisoner by the
court.
			However, any prisoner committed to jail upon a felony offense committed on or
after January 1, 1995, shall not earn good conduct credit, sentence credit,
earned sentence credit, other credit, or a combination of any credits in excess
of that permissible under Article 4 (&#xA7; 53.1-202.2 et seq.) of Chapter 6 of
this title. So much of an order of any court contrary to the provisions of this
section shall be deemed null and void.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7; 19.2-350, in the event a person who
was committed to jail to be therein confined until he pays a fine imposed on him
by the court in which he was tried should desire to pay such fine and costs, he
may pay the same to the person in charge of the jail. The person receiving such
moneys shall execute and deliver an official receipt therefor and shall promptly
transmit the amount so paid to the clerk of the court which imposed the fine and
costs. Such clerk shall give him an official receipt therefor and shall properly
record the receipt of such moneys.

C. The administrator of a local or regional jail shall not assign a person to a
home/electronic incarceration program pursuant to subsection C of &#xA7;
53.1-131.2 in a locality which has a jail operated by a sheriff, without the
consent of the sheriff.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-151; 1952, c. 218; 1972, c. 293; 1981, c. 278; 1982,
c. 636; 1983, c. 561; 1984, c. 643; 1990, c. 934; 1994, 2nd Sp. Sess., cc. 1, 2;
1996, c. 556; 1998, c. 776; 1999, cc. 951, 1007; 2003, cc. 818, 820; 2004, cc.
400, 461; 2011, c. 491.