                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY OF DIRECTOR TO RECOMMEND PAROLE REVIEW; RELEASE UPON REVIEW (§
53.1-154.1)

The Director is authorized to determine those prisoners who may be suitable
parole risks and whose interests and those of society will be served by their
early parole release and to recommend such prisoners to the Parole Board for
early parole consideration. In making such recommendation, the Director shall
take into account the prisoner&#8217;s criminal history record, mental and
physical condition, employability, institutional adjustment and such other
factors as may be appropriate, including the risk of violence to others. The
case of any such prisoner so recommended may be reviewed by the Parole Board
prior to such prisoner&#8217;s date of eligibility for parole. Upon appropriate
review the Parole Board may release on parole prior to the date of eligibility
for parole any prisoner so recommended by the Director. However, no prisoner
shall be released until he has served at least one-fourth of the term of
imprisonment imposed, or until he has served twelve years of the term of
imprisonment imposed if one-fourth of the term of imprisonment imposed is more
than twelve years, except as such time is reduced by any other provision of law.
		This section shall have no application to persons not eligible for parole
pursuant to subsections B, B1 and E of § 53.1-151.

HISTORY: 1983, c. 378; 2020, c. 759.