                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INMATE TRUST ACCOUNTS (§ 53.1-43.1)

In addition to any other account established to hold funds for inmates, the
Department shall establish for each inmate a personal trust account. Unless an
inmate has been sentenced to be executed, is serving a sentence of life without
the possibility of parole, or is sentenced to a term that makes him ineligible
for release, excluding the conditional release of geriatric prisoners pursuant
to § 53.1-40.01, prior to 75 years of age, 10 percent of any funds received by
an inmate from any source shall be deposited by the Department in the
inmate&#8217;s personal trust account until the account has a balance of $1,000.
When the inmate&#8217;s personal trust account reaches $1,000, any funds
received by the inmate shall be deposited in the inmate&#8217;s other account.
		An inmate may direct the Department at any time to deposit a portion or all of
any funds received by him in the inmate&#8217;s personal trust account. After
the balance of a personal trust account has exceeded $1,000, an inmate may
direct the Department to transfer funds from his personal trust account to any
other account maintained for him; provided, however, that the balance of the
personal trust account shall not fall below $1,000.
		Funds in an inmate&#8217;s personal trust account shall be paid to the inmate
upon parole or final discharge.

HISTORY: 2011, cc. 260, 284; 2017, c. 205.