                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECEIVING AND MAINTAINING FEDERAL PRISONERS IN STATE FACILITIES (§ 37.2-828)

The Commissioner is authorized to enter into a contract with the United States,
through the Director of the United States Bureau of Prisons or other authorized
agent of the United States, for the reception, maintenance, care, and
observation in state facilities, or in those designated by the Commissioner for
the purpose, of any persons charged with a crime in the courts of the United
States sitting in Virginia and committed by the courts to the state facilities
for those purposes. All persons so admitted shall remain subject to the
jurisdiction of the court by whom they were committed, and they may be returned
to that court at any time for hearing or trial.
		Any such contract shall require that the United States remit to the State
Treasurer for each prisoner admitted specified per diem or other payments, or
both, with such payments fixed by the contract.
		The director of any state facility to which a prisoner of the United States is
admitted shall observe the person and, as soon as possible, report in writing to
the court by which he is certified or committed as to his mental condition or
other matters as the court may direct.
		No contract made pursuant to this section shall obligate the Commonwealth or
the Commissioner to receive a federal prisoner into any state facility in which
all available beds are needed for persons otherwise admitted, or in any other
case where, in the opinion of the director, the admission of the prisoner would
interfere with the care and treatment of other persons admitted or with the
proper administration of the state facility.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 37-98; 1950, p. 913; 1968, c. 477, § 37.1-95; 1972, c.
639; 1980, c. 582; 2005, c. 716.