                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GOOD CONDUCT CREDITS FOR PRISONERS COMMITTING CRIMES, PARDON VIOLATORS AND
ESCAPEES CONVICTED PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1, 1942; EFFECT OF CREDIT UPON ELIGIBILITY
FOR PAROLE (§ 53.1-194)

Every person convicted of a felony before October 1, 1942, who had once before
been convicted of a felony and regularly discharged from the state corrections
system, or who, prior to June 24, 1944, had been returned to a state
correctional facility for violating the terms of a conditional pardon, or who
had been convicted of a crime while serving his sentence in a state correctional
facility, or who had escaped or attempted to escape from a state correctional
facility or from a local correctional facility while awaiting trial or transfer
to a state correctional facility, shall, for every month he is confined in any
state correctional facility after such date, without violating any prison rule
or regulation, be allowed a credit of fifteen days upon the total term of
confinement to which he has been sentenced, in addition to the time he actually
serves. Every person convicted of a felony before October 1, 1942, who is
returned thereafter to a state correctional facility for violating the terms of
a conditional pardon, or who commits a crime while serving his sentence in a
state correctional facility, or who escapes or attempts to escape from a state
correctional facility, shall, for every twenty days he is held in confinement
after his return to a state correctional facility or after the commission of
such crime, or after such escape or attempted escape, without violating any
prison rule or regulation, be allowed a credit of only ten days upon the total
term of confinement to which he has been sentenced, in addition to the time he
actually serves.
		Any credit allowed under the provisions of this section shall also be
considered as reducing the term of imprisonment to which the prisoner was or is
sentenced for the purpose of determining his eligibility for parole.
		So much of an order of any court contrary to the provisions of this section
shall be deemed null and void.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-211; 1952, c. 142; 1979, c. 415; 1982, c. 636.