Code of Virginia - Title 53.1 Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction - Chapter 6 Commencement Of Terms; Credits And Allowances

• 53.1-186 Term commences from date of final judgment; exceptions
  The term of confinement in a local or state correctional facility for the commission of a crime shall commence and be computed from the date ...
• 53.1-187 Credit for time spent in confinement while awaiting trial
  Any person who is sentenced to a term of confinement in a correctional facility shall have deducted from any such term all time actually spent ...
• 53.1-188 Conduct records to be kept
  The Director shall keep a record of the conduct of each person confined in a state correctional facility. Each time any prisoner in a state ...
• 53.1-189 Forfeiture and restoration of good conduct allowance and earned sentence credits
  A. Except for credits allowed under § 53.1-191, all or any part of a person's accrued good conduct allowance and earned sentence credits earned after ...
• 53.1-190 Allowance on discharge; transportation; clothing
  The Director, upon the release of a prisoner who has served at least eight months, shall give the prisoner all funds accumulated to his credit ...
• 53.1-191 Credits allowed in cases of injuries to or extraordinary services performed by prisoners; nonforfei...
  The Board, with the consent of the Governor, may allow to any prisoner confined in a state correctional facility a credit toward his term of ...
• 53.1-192 Applicability of article
  The provisions of this article shall be applicable only to those persons who were convicted, sentenced and committed to the Department prior to July 1, ...
• 53.1-193 Good conduct credits for persons convicted prior to October 1, 1942; effect of credit upon eligibil...
  Every person convicted of a felony before October 1, 1942, except those referenced in § 53.1-194, shall, for every month that he is held in ...
• 53.1-194 Good conduct credits for prisoners committing crimes, pardon violators and escapees convicted prio...
  Every person convicted of a felony before October 1, 1942, who had once before been convicted of a felony and regularly discharged from the state ...
• 53.1-195 Credits earned prior to 1944
  Such credit as any person may have earned pursuant to § 53.1-193 or § 53.1-194 and not forfeited prior to June 24, 1944, shall remain ...
• 53.1-196 Good conduct credits of persons convicted after October 1, 1942; effect of credit upon eligibility ...
  Every person convicted of a felony on or after October 1, 1942 and every person convicted of a misdemeanor and confined in any state correctional ...
• 53.1-197 Credit allowed for career and technical educational or other educational training
  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 ...
• 53.1-197.1 Limitation upon applicability of this article
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to any sentence imposed upon a conviction of a felony offense committed on or after January 1, ...
• 53.1-198 Certain persons to choose good conduct system
  Every person who, on or before June 30, 1981, was convicted of a felony and every person convicted of a misdemeanor, and to whom the ...
• 53.1-199 Eligibility for good conduct allowance; application
  Every person who, on or after July 1, 1981, has been convicted of a felony and every person convicted of a misdemeanor and to whom ...
• 53.1-200 Conditions for good conduct allowance
  Regulations approved by the Board shall govern the earning of good conduct allowance. The regulations shall require, as a condition for earning the allowance, that ...
• 53.1-201 Classification system for good conduct allowance
  Good conduct allowances shall be based upon a four-level classification system. Such system shall be established as follows: 1. Class I at a rate of ...
• 53.1-202 Good conduct allowance for previous confinement; entry level
  Upon receipt by the Department, persons who have been confined while awaiting transfer to a state correctional facility shall be credited with such time as ...
• 53.1-202.1 Limitation upon applicability of this article
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to any sentence imposed upon a conviction of a felony offense committed on or after January 1, ...
• 53.1-202.2 Eligibility for earned sentence credits
  A. Every person who is convicted of a felony offense committed on or after January 1, 1995, and who is sentenced to serve a term ...
• 53.1-202.3 Rate at which sentence credits may be earned; prerequisites
  A maximum of four and one-half sentence credits may be earned for each 30 days served. The earning of sentence credits shall be conditioned, in ...
• 53.1-202.4 Board of Corrections to establish certain rules, criteria, etc
  The Board shall: 1. Establish the criteria upon which a person shall be deemed to have earned sentence credits; 2. Establish the bases upon which ...

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