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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
State correctional facilities; DOC to provide telephone calls and communication services. [SB-378]
State correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any person, whether such person is initiating or receiving the communication. The bill also requires that a minimum ratio of one telephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unit at each correctional facility and that the maximum number of telephone numbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than 20.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Finance And Appropriations on 11/19/2024
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Correctional facilities; behavioral health services in facilities, report. [HB-988]
Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health services to persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities. The bill also requires local correctional facilities to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility, procedures. [SB-427]
Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility or secure facility and meet certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion of such sentence or run the unserved portion of such sentence concurrently with another sentence, (ii) place such person on probation for such
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Left In Appropriations on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Length of Stay Guidelines & Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; DJJ's work group to study, report. [HB-1494]
Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of Stay Guidelines and the Department's direct care capacity in response to the Department's report on the 2023 Length of Stay Guidelines. The work group is directed to study (i) the evidence and research relied upon by the Department as identified in the Department's report, including adjusting for changes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Left In Rules on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Length of Stay Guidelines & Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; DJJ's work group to study, report. [HB-1494]
Department of Juvenile Justice; work group to study Length of Stay Guidelines and Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center; report. Directs the Department of Juvenile Justice to convene a work group to study issues related to the Department's Length of Stay Guidelines and the Department's direct care capacity in response to the Department's report on the 2023 Length of Stay Guidelines. The work group is directed to study (i) the evidence and research relied upon by the Department as identified in the Department's report, including adjusting for changes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Juveniles; juvenile correctional centers, eligibility for parole. [SB-449]
Juvenile parole; juvenile correctional centers. Provides that any person sentenced to a term of life imprisonment or who has a cumulative term of active sentences that total more than 20 years, regardless of whether such sentences were imposed during a single sentencing hearing or multiple sentencing hearings, for a single felony offense or multiple felony offenses committed while that person was a juvenile and who has served at least 20 consecutive years of incarceration, including any period of commitment in a juvenile correctional center, shall
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility, procedures. [SB-427]
Petition for modification of a sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides procedures for individuals serving a sentence for certain felony convictions or a combination of such convictions who remain incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility or secure facility and meet certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion of such sentence or run the unserved portion of such sentence concurrently with another sentence, (ii) place such person on probation for such
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 02/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls. [HB-801]
Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services; lowest available rates. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems and that such systems shall be established at the lowest available rates. The maximum number of telephone numbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than 20. Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services; lowest
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0455) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
State correctional facilities; DOC to provide telephone calls and communication services. [SB-378]
State correctional facilities; telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any person, whether such person is initiating or receiving the communication. The bill also requires that a minimum ratio of one telephone per every 10 inmates be available within each housing unit at each correctional facility and that the maximum number of telephone numbers permitted on an approved call list must be no fewer than 20.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (15-y 0-n) on 01/31/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; use of canines, prohibited acts. [HB-726]
Use of canines in correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Provides that it is unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a state correctional facility or juvenile correctional facility who is permitted to handle canines to use a canine to (i) extract a prisoner from his cell or (ii) intervene in an altercation, fight, or other incident between three or fewer prisoners. The bill provides that the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice shall make public any policies and regulations
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; behavioral health services in facilities, report. [HB-988]
Behavioral health services in correctional facilities; report. Requires the Department of Corrections to report to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health services to persons incarcerated in state correctional facilities. The bill also requires local correctional facilities to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails on or before October 1 of each year certain population statistics regarding the provision of behavioral health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Willett
Continued To 2025 In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Correctional facilities, local; stores and telephone systems, fees. [HB-912]
Stores and telephone systems in local correctional facilities; fees. Provides that the net profits from the operation of stores and telephonic communication systems in local correctional facilities shall be used within each facility respectively for educational, recreational, or medical purposes for the benefit of the inmates to include behavioral health, substance abuse, reentry, and rehabilitative services and may be expended to pay for the training, salaries, and benefits of employees or contractors whose primary job is to provide such programs
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0402) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Civilian deaths in custody; report. [HB-611]
Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and state or juvenile correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services and every local or regional adult correctional facility to report to the State Board of Local and Regional Jails certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest or in the process of being arrested, en route to be incarcerated, incarcerated, or otherwise in the custody of such law-enforcement agency or correctional facility. The bill provides
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0813) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. [HB-614]
Community service work in lieu of payment of fines and costs; work performed while incarcerated. Requires a court to establish a program and allow any person upon whom a fine and costs have been imposed to discharge all or part of the fine or costs by earning credits for the performance of community service work or work performed while incarcerated, defined in the bill as any work done on or after July 1, 2020, by a person confined in any penal or corrective institution of the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions who is paid a wage
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Civilian deaths in custody; report. [HB-423]
Civilian deaths in custody; report. Requires every law-enforcement agency and correctional facility to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services certain information regarding the death of any person who is detained, under arrest or in the process of being arrested, en route to be incarcerated, incarcerated, or otherwise in the custody of such law-enforcement agency or correctional facility. The bill provides that any law-enforcement agency or correctional facility that fails to comply may, at the discretion of the Department, be declared
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Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Incorporated By Public Safety on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated; disciplinary procedures. [HB-161]
Arrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for or disciplinary or administrative procedures or penalties related to the unlawful purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol; possession of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana; procurement, sale, secretion, or possession of any chemical compound
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
State correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; use of canines, prohibited acts. [HB-159]
Use of canines in correctional and juvenile correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Makes it unlawful for any correctional officer or other employee of a state correctional facility who is permitted to handle canines to use a patrol or security canine in any state correctional facility unless such correctional officer or other employee (i) reasonably believes that the use of a patrol or security canine is immediately necessary to protect any prisoner or any officer or employee from the threat of serious bodily injury or death or (ii) has the prior
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0099) on 03/20/2024
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing. [HB-2487]
Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing. Prohibits the use of restorative housing, defined in the bill, in state correctional facilities, subject to certain exceptions. The bill requires that an incarcerated person who has been placed in restorative housing be offered a minimum of four hours of out-of-cell programmatic interventions or other congregate activities per day aimed at promoting personal development or addressing underlying causes of problematic behavior. The bill also requires the facility administrator to have a defined
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Wilt
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 392 (effective 7/1/23) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Offenders released from correctional facility; mandatory reporting if before completion of sentence. [HB-2413]
Mandatory reporting of all offenders released from a local correctional facility or state correctional facility before the completion of the offender's sentence. Requires the Department of Corrections and all local correctional facilities to provide the Virginia State Crime Commission with the name, last known address, criminal history information, length of sentence incarcerated, reason for early release, and remaining time on such length of sentence for each offender in the custody of the Department or such local correctional facility. The bill
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ellen Campbell
Left In Appropriations on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
State correctional facilities; electronic communication systems, free telephone calls. [SB-1274]
Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; free telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic communications systems free of charge to any person, whether such person is initiating or receiving the communication. Electronic communication systems within state correctional facilities; free telephone calls and communication services. Requires the Department of Corrections to provide telephone systems and web-based or electronic
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Tabled In Appropriations (11-y 10-n) on 02/13/2023