CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESTABLISHMENT OF SYSTEM (§ 53.1-67.3)

The Director shall establish a statewide community-based system of programs,
services and residential and nonresidential facilities for (i) those
state-responsible offenders convicted of felonies and sentenced to alternative
forms of punishment and (ii) those state-responsible offenders who the Director
has determined, after a period of incarceration in a state or local correctional
facility, require less secure confinement or a lower level of supervision.
Facilities established pursuant to this article may be partially or completely
physically restrictive with varying levels and types of offender control.

HISTORY: 1994, 2nd Sp. Sess., cc. 1, 2.