Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Confidential juvenile records; sharing with state and local correctional facilities, confidential. [SB-476]
Confidential juvenile records; sharing with state, local, and regional correctional facilities. Provides for the sharing of juvenile records with state and local correctional facilities when such facility has custody of or is providing supervision for a person convicted as an adult who is the subject of such records.
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Sexually violent predators; Director of DOC determines if prisoner meets definition. [SB-314]
Sexually violent predators; civil commitment. Provides for determination by the Director of the Department of Corrections for referral of certain prisoners for assessment as sexually violent predators if they appear to meet the definition of sexually violent predators and to exclude from referral those who are incapacitated by debilitating illness. The bill also provides that the Director of the Department of Corrections, in coordination with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, shall develop assessment protocols to determine
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
DCJS; provides minimum training standards for juvenile correctional officers. [SB-293]
Department of Criminal Justice Services; minimum training standards; juvenile correctional officers. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Criminal Justice Services Board to provide compulsory minimum entry-level training standards for juvenile correctional officers.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Geriatric prisoners; removes petition requirement for Parole Board to consider conditional release. [SB-290]
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Removes the petition requirement for the Parole Board to consider a geriatric release, and requires the Parole Board to report to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services not later than December 1, 2012, on the number of individuals considered for conditional release, the number of individuals actually released, and the number of individuals conditionally released who are subsequently arrested and recommitted to the Department of Corrections.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Child support; DCE to withhold payments from prisoners who maintain job within Department. [SB-247]
Opportunities for work and career and technical education; child support. Requires the Department to withhold child support payments out of moneys paid to prisoners who maintain a job within the Department. Child support payments owed will also be withheld from any inmate trust account established for the prisoner.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Postrelease supervision of felons; amends provisions. [SB-175]
Postrelease supervision of felons. Amends provisions regarding the imposition of an additional term of incarceration and postrelease supervision for certain felons who are sentenced to an active prison term. The bill clarifies that an additional term of incarceration is to be imposed and provides that if the court fails to impose the term, the length of the term is six months.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Solitary confinement; JLARC to study uses including segregation, isolation, etc., by DOC. [HJR-126]
Study; solitary confinement; JLARC; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the use of solitary confinement by the Department of Corrections.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Public Safety Memorial; requests Governor to include names of state and local parole officers, etc. [HJR-124]
Governor; Virginia's Public Safety Memorial. Requests the Governor to include in the Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial the names of state and local probation and parole officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Parole; joint subcommittee to study reinstituting in State. [HJR-122]
Study; parole; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study reinstituting parole in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Assault and battery; adds prison contractor to class of people victimized in prisons, penalty. [HB-953]
Assault and battery a felony when certain classes of people are victimized; penalty. Expands the class of people for whom, when they are victims of an assault or assault and battery, the offense is punished as a Class 6 felony. The expanded class would include a prison contractor as defined in §53.1-261, a person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of inmates in the custody of the Department of Corrections (without regard to whether he is an employee of the Department of Corrections), a contractor providing services in a juvenile
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Prisoners; harassment by use of computer, penalty. [HB-916]
Harassment by computer by prisoners; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for a prisoner or a person acting on behalf of a prisoner to use a computer, computer network, or social networking site to harass, intimidate, or threaten a crime victim.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Correctional enterprises; exemption from mandatory purchase provisions. [HB-90]
Correctional enterprises; exemption from mandatory purchase provisions. Provides that any department, institution, or agency of the Commonwealth may use competitive sealed bidding in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§2.2-4300 et seq.) for the procurement of furniture without first seeking an exemption from the provisions of §53.1-47 from the Director of the Division of Purchases and Supply.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Pregnant prisoners; prohibits use of restraints by any correctional facility. [HB-836]
Restraint of certain prisoners. Prohibits a state, regional, local, or juvenile correctional facility from using restraints on any prisoner who is pregnant during labor, transport to a medical facility, delivery, or postpartum recovery unless the warden, superintendent, or jailor finds there is a compelling reason to believe that the prisoner poses serious harm to herself or others, is a flight risk, or cannot be reasonably restrained by other means. Such facility shall use the least restrictive restraints necessary on any inmate in the second or
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Courthouses and courtrooms; assessment for security. [HB-683]
Assessment for courthouse and courtroom security. Increases from $10 to $15 the maximum sum that may be assessed as part of the costs in each criminal or traffic case in district or circuit court in which the defendant is convicted of a violation of any statute or ordinance, to be used to pay for courthouse and courtroom security.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Prisoners; allows localities to charge persons for costs of transporting them to jail. [HB-487]
Collection by locality of cost of transporting prisoners. Allows localities to charge persons convicted of violations of state law or ordinance for the costs of transporting them to jail or other holding facility.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Juveniles; certain persons imprisoned for life eligible for parole. [HB-436]
Certain juveniles imprisoned for life eligible for parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment upon conviction of a felony offense, other than an offense set forth in Article 1 (§ 18.2-30 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2 (homicide offenses), who was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offense is eligible for parole. This bill is in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 130 S. Ct. 2011, 2034 (2010), in which the Court held that, pursuant to the 8th Amendment prohibition
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Juveniles; certain persons imprisoned for felony offense eligible for parole. [HB-435]
Juveniles imprisoned for felony offense eligible for parole. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of imprisonment upon conviction of a felony offense who was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offense is eligible for parole.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Parole Board; exceptions to Freedom of Information Act. [HB-397]
Virginia Parole Board; exceptions to the Freedom of Information Act. Requires guidance documents of the Board to be available as public records under the Freedom of Information Act. The bill has a delayed effective date to give the Freedom of Information Advisory Council an opportunity to review the legislation and report on its implementation.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Parole; eligibilty for certain inmates otherwise ineligible. [HB-392]
Parole; eligibility for certain inmates otherwise ineligible. Provides that in the case of a person who is ineligible for parole for a combination of three or more offenses involving murder, rape, or robbery, the Parole Board shall consider a petition for reconsideration of ineligibility for parole if the person (i) was convicted only of robbery, (ii) did not injure or attempt to injure any person, (iii) did not have assistance of counsel in preparing a petition for review of ineligibility previously considered on the merits under this provision,
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Confidential juvenile records; sharing with state and local correctional facilities, confidential. [HB-391]
Confidential juvenile records; sharing with state, local, and regional correctional facilities. Provides for the sharing of juvenile records with state and local correctional facilities when such facility has custody of or is providing supervision for a person convicted as an adult who is the subject of such records.