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 Board
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
Board may be drawn upon by the prisoner for such purposes as may be authorized
by the regulations of the Board.For the purposes of this section only, the
phrase “transferred to the Department” 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.