                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK AND CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION (§ 53.1-41)

A. To the extent feasible, it shall be the duty of the Director to provide
persons sentenced to the Department with opportunities to work and to
participate in career and technical education programs. Such work opportunities
may include business, industrial, agricultural, highway maintenance and
construction, and work release programs as hereafter specified in this article.
In addition, prisoners may be employed to improve, repair, work on or cultivate
public property or buildings.
			In addition to meeting the qualifications for work performance and security
compatibility, preference for placement in work programs shall be given to any
prisoner who requests a work assignment and assigns a minimum of 50 percent of
his earnings to his child support obligation.

B. When a person committed to the Department owes any court imposed fines,
costs, forfeitures, restitution or penalties, he shall be required as a
condition of participating in any work program to either make full payment or
make payments in accordance with an agreed upon installment or deferred payment
plan while participating in such work program. If, after the person enters into
an installment or deferred payment agreement, the person fails to pay as agreed,
his participation in the work program may be terminated until all fines, costs,
forfeitures, restitution and penalties are satisfied. The Director shall
withhold such payments from any amounts due to such person.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 53-33, 53-57, 53-224; 1970, c. 648; 1982, c. 636; 2001,
c. 483; 2006, c. 98; 2010, c. 616; 2012, cc. 803, 835.