                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ABDUCTION BY PRISONERS OR COMMITTED PERSONS; PENALTY (§ 18.2-48.1)

Any person confined in a state, local, or community correctional facility or
committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenile correctional
center, or in the custody of an employee thereof, or who has escaped from any
such facility or from any person in charge of such prisoner or committed person,
who abducts or takes any person hostage is guilty of a Class 3 felony.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 526; 1986, c. 414; 2013, cc. 707, 782.