                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ALLOWANCE FOR WORK AND DISPOSITION THEREOF (§ 53.1-42)

Every prisoner committed and transferred to the Department and thereafter
confined for the sentence for which he was committed in a state or local
correctional facility shall be allowed an amount to be established by the
Director for each day of labor satisfactory to the superintendent or sheriff in
whose charge he is. The allowance so made shall accumulate and be paid over to
the prisoner upon discharge, except that an amount thereof to be determined by
the Director may be drawn upon by the prisoner for such purposes as may be
authorized by the regulations of the Director.
		For the purposes of this section only, the phrase &#8220;transferred to the
Department&#8221; means (i) the actual physical receipt by the Department of a
prisoner in a state correctional facility or (ii) the complete processing by the
Department of a prisoner for the purposes of classifying the person as a state
prisoner whether or not the person is physically received into a state
correctional facility.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-220.1; 1970, c. 339; 1982, c. 636; 2020, c. 759.