Prisons And Other Methods Of Correction
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Correctional enterprises; Director of Purchases & Supply et al., to grant certain exemption, report. [HB-263]
Correctional enterprises; exemption from mandatory purchase provisions. Provides that state departments, institutions, and agencies may be granted an exemption from mandatory procurement of articles produced or manufactured by persons confined in state correctional facilities with the consent of both the Director of the Division of Purchases and Supply and the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Correctional Enterprises Program. The bill adds that an exemption may be granted if an identical article can be obtained at a verified lesser cost from
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Geriatric prisoners; those at 60 may petition Parole Board for conditional release. [HB-165]
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Allows any prisoner serving a sentence imposed for a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, who has reached the age of 60 or older to petition the Parole Board for conditional release without regard to the number of years of his sentence he has served. Current law allows a 60-year-old prisoner to petition the Board after serving at least 10 years and a 65-year-old prisoner to petition the Board after serving at least five years of his sentence.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Telecommunications services; SCC to excercise jurisdiction over rates and charges for prisoners. [HB-162]
Telephone services for incarcerated persons. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to exercise jurisdiction over rates and charges of telecommunication services that enable correctional inmates to originate calls at pay telephones or other telephones that are designated for prisoners' personal use.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Civil rights; automatically restored to certain persons for eligibilty to register to vote. [HB-16]
Restoration of civil rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of civil rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of sentence, including any term of probation or parole, and the payment of all restitution, fines, costs, and fees assessed as a result of the felony conviction.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Redistricting local districts; local government may exclude prison populations from its calculation. [HB-13]
Elections; redistricting local districts; prison populations. Provides that the local governing body may exclude from its calculations in drawing local districts for decennial redistricting the population of certain adult correctional facilities. The bill includes federal and regional, as well as state, adult correctional facilities and allows the exclusion of the facility population if it exceeds 12 percent of the ideal population of an election district for the locality.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Immediate sanction probation program; created. [HB-1299]
Immediate sanction program created. Creates a specialized probation program available to offenders who are on probation pursuant to a suspended sentence and have not been convicted of a violent felony. The program provides for immediate arrest of a probation violator whose violation is not another crime for which confinement can be imposed or absconding for more than seven days. He would then be subject to a minimum of three to 10 days in jail, with the terms of confinement escalating for each subsequent offense. After serving his sentence for the
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Psychiatric hospital admissions; local inmates. [HB-1280]
Psychiatric hospital admissions; local inmates. Amends the criteria for psychiatric inpatient admission for inmates at local correctional facilities to add mentally ill inmates for whom there exists a substantial likelihood that they will suffer serious harm due to their lack of capacity to protect themselves from harm. Under current law the standard is that the mentally ill inmate will cause serious physical harm to himself or others as evidenced by recent behavior causing, attempting, or threatening harm.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Felonies by prisoners; penalties. [HB-1279]
Crimes by prisoners; penalties. Provides that a prisoner may be charged under the Code sections that apply to crimes by prisoners, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Sexually violent predators; Director of DOC shall develop protocol for assessing prisoner, etc. [HB-1271]
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
Civil rights; automatically restored to certain persons for eligibilty to register to vote. [HB-1098]
Restoration of civil rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of civil rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting election fraud crimes) upon completion of sentence, including any term of probation or parole, and the payment of all restitution, fines, costs, and fees assessed as a result of the felony conviction.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Geriatric prisoners; removes petition requirement for Parole Board to consider conditional release. [HB-1064]
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Removes the petition requirement for the Parole Board to consider a geriatric release.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Income tax, state and corporate; tax credit for hiring certain individuals. [HB-1023]
Tax credit for hiring certain individuals released from incarceration. Establishes beginning January 1, 2012, an individual and corporate income tax credit for taxpayers hiring individuals released from incarceration into new jobs paying an annual salary of at least $50,000. Individuals released from incarceration are persons who were released from incarceration for conviction of a felony within the five years immediately preceding the date on which the person was hired into the new job. The tax credit would equal $500 each year for five years for
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Sheriffs & jail superintendents; written reports also to be received by local community boards, etc. [SB-989]
Reports made by sheriffs and jail superintendents. Adds local community services boards and behavioral health authorities to the list of persons and entities that receive written reports made by jail superintendents and sheriffs of local jails showing the number and identity of, and other information about, jailed prisoners and juveniles.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Global Positioning System (GPS); tracking for person on bond or as a condition of probation. [SB-925]
Bond; GPS tracking. Allows GPS (Global Positioning System) tracking for persons on secured bond or as a condition of probation or suspended sentence.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Inmates; Department of Corrections to establish a personal trust account therefor. [SB-923]
Department of Corrections; inmate trust accounts. Requires the Department of Corrections to establish for each inmate a personal trust account consisting of 10 percent of any funds received by an inmate from any source until the account has a balance of $1,000. Funds in an inmate's personal trust account shall be paid to the inmate upon parole or final discharge.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Retirement System; benefits for certain local employees. [SB-848]
Virginia Retirement System; benefits for local law enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees in certain localities. Permits any locality that is exempt from providing all of the special statutory retirement benefits to local law enforcement, correctional, and emergency response employees because the locality's annual retirement allowance for such employees exceeds the statutory amount, to provide all of the other statutory benefits except the statutory annual retirement allowance (i) to all employees eligible for such benefits
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Rehabilitative programming; earned sentence credits. [SB-796]
Rehabilitative programming; earned sentence credits. Allows prisoners to earn 10 additional sentence credits for each 30 days of incarceration for participation in programs aimed at earning a GED, college credit, or a certification through an accredited vocational training program or other accredited continuing education program, or interventional rehabilitation programs including mental health and sex offender treatment.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Jail processing fee; allows sheriff's department, regional jail, or police department to receive. [SB-777]
Jail processing fee. Allows a locality to divide the fees collected post-conviction proportionately between a police department and the sheriff's department if costs are incurred by a police department for booking or fingerprinting services. Currently, the fee may go only to sheriff's offices and regional jails.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Cannabinoids, synthetic; penalties for transport, possession, sale, or distribution, etc. [SB-745]
Penalties for possession, sale, gift, distribution or possession with intent to sell, give or distribute synthetic cannabinoids; bath salts. Lists those chemicals that comprise synthetic cannabinoids and makes possession a Class 1 misdemeanor. Possession with intent to distribute and manufacturing are felonies. The first offender statute applies as it does to marijuana and controlled substances. The bill criminalizes privately compounding with the specific intent to circumvent the criminal penalties for synthetic cannabinoids. The bill also allows
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Prison printing shops; higher educational institutions are not required to purchase products. [SB-1444]
Prison printing shops. Provides that state institutions of higher education may, but are not required to, purchase the products of print shops in state correctional facilities.