                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CREDIT ALLOWED FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATIONAL OR OTHER EDUCATIONAL
TRAINING (§ 53.1-197)

Every person sentenced to the Department, while in a local or state correctional
facility, who participates in career and technical education or other training
while confined, or who shows such interest and application in his work
assignment as to exhibit unusual progress toward rehabilitation, may, in the
discretion of the Director be allowed a credit toward his parole eligibility
date and upon the total term of confinement to which he has been sentenced. Such
credit may be from one day to five days for each month he has been engaged in
such career and technical education or other training or has applied himself in
excess of minimal work assignment requirements. Any credit accumulated prior to
June 1, 1975, toward the term of confinement may, in the discretion of the
Director, be credited toward such prisoner&#8217;s parole eligibility date.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-213.1; 1968, c. 302; 1973, c. 204; 1975, c. 244; 1976,
c. 180; 1982, c. 636; 2001, c. 483.