                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRISONERS PERFORMING WORK FOR LOCALITIES, STATE AGENCIES OR NONPROFIT CIVIC
ORGANIZATIONS; PAYMENT OF COSTS; FOREMEN AS GUARDS (§ 53.1-59)

The Director is authorized to enter into agreements with the proper authorities
of any state agency, county, city, town, local commission or nonprofit civic
organization in the Commonwealth to build and maintain roads and streets and to
perform such other public works as he may approve. The state agency, county,
town, city, local commission or nonprofit civic organization for which such work
is performed may be required to pay to the Department in monthly installments
such sum as is necessary to cover the costs of work done by such prisoners at
the rate specified in the agreement authorized by § 53.1-57.
		The state agency, county, town, city, local commission or nonprofit civic
organization that has the use of prison labor authorized by this section shall
designate the projects to be worked. It may be required to furnish all
engineering service, tools, implements, machinery and equipment used in such
projects; shall secure rights-of-way; and shall furnish such foremen as the
Director deems necessary and acceptable to direct the work. The Director may
authorize such persons employed as foremen to carry firearms in accordance with
§ 53.1-29.
		Fifteen days prior to a prisoner&#8217;s participation in the program, the
Director shall give the chief of police, sheriff or local chief law-enforcement
official of the locality in which the prisoner will work, written notice of the
prisoner&#8217;s participation. Such notice shall include the name, address and
criminal history of the prisoner in addition to other information the chief of
police or such officer may request. A copy of such notice shall be provided to
the attorney for the Commonwealth and the governing body where the work is to be
performed. The transmission of information shall be confidential and not subject
to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700 et seq.). When notice
has been requested in accordance with § 53.1-133.02, the Director shall provide
notice to the victim that the prisoner has been assigned to a facility where the
prisoner may participate in supervised work programs established pursuant to
this section.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-122.1; 1962, c. 370; 1970, c. 648; 1982, c. 636; 1989,
c. 652; 1991, c. 412; 1996, cc. 703, 726.