18.2-473 - Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child.
§ 18.2-473. Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child.
When a person is lawfully detained as a prisoner in any jail or prison orheld in custody, or when a child is placed in a local juvenile detentionhome, or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice in any juvenilecorrectional center, or Reception and Diagnostic Center for Children or heldin custody, if any person: (1) conveys anything into the jail, prison,juvenile detention home, juvenile correctional center or Reception andDiagnostic Center for Children with intent to facilitate a person's escapetherefrom, (2) in any way aids such prisoner or child to escape, or in anattempt to escape, from such jail, prison, juvenile detention home, juvenilecorrectional center, Reception and Diagnostic Center for Children or custody,or (3) forcibly takes, or attempts to take him therefrom, such person, if thetaking or escape is effected, shall, if the prisoner or child was detained onconviction, commitment or charge of felony, be confined in a statecorrectional facility not less than one year nor more than five years. If thesame is not effected, or if the prisoner or child was not detained on suchconviction, commitment or charge, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
(Code 1950, § 18.1-284; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1984, c. 587; 1989,c. 733; 1996, cc. 755, 914.)