53.1-228.1 - Inmate payment for damaged property.

§ 53.1-228.1. Inmate payment for damaged property.

The Board, and each jail superintendent or sheriff who operates acorrectional facility, are authorized to establish administrative proceduresfor recovering, from an inmate, the cost of replacing or repairing anyfacility-owned or facility-issued property which is proven to have beenintentionally damaged or destroyed by the inmate. Such administrativeprocedures shall ensure that the inmate is afforded due process.

(1996, c. 669.)