53.1-194 - Good conduct credits for prisoners committing crimes, pardon violators and escapees convicted prior to October 1, 1942; effect of credit upon eligibility for parole.
§ 53.1-194. Good conduct credits for prisoners committing crimes, pardonviolators and escapees convicted prior to October 1, 1942; effect of creditupon eligibility for parole.
Every person convicted of a felony before October 1, 1942, who had oncebefore been convicted of a felony and regularly discharged from the statecorrections system, or who, prior to June 24, 1944, had been returned to astate correctional facility for violating the terms of a conditional pardon,or who had been convicted of a crime while serving his sentence in a statecorrectional facility, or who had escaped or attempted to escape from a statecorrectional facility or from a local correctional facility while awaitingtrial or transfer to a state correctional facility, shall, for every month heis confined in any state correctional facility after such date, withoutviolating any prison rule or regulation, be allowed a credit of fifteen daysupon the total term of confinement to which he has been sentenced, inaddition to the time he actually serves. Every person convicted of a felonybefore October 1, 1942, who is returned thereafter to a state correctionalfacility for violating the terms of a conditional pardon, or who commits acrime while serving his sentence in a state correctional facility, or whoescapes or attempts to escape from a state correctional facility, shall, forevery twenty days he is held in confinement after his return to a statecorrectional facility or after the commission of such crime, or after suchescape or attempted escape, without violating any prison rule or regulation,be allowed a credit of only ten days upon the total term of confinement towhich he has been sentenced, in addition to the time he actually serves.
Any credit allowed under the provisions of this section shall also beconsidered as reducing the term of imprisonment to which the prisoner was oris sentenced for the purpose of determining his eligibility for parole.
So much of an order of any court contrary to the provisions of this sectionshall be deemed null and void.
(Code 1950, § 53-211; 1952, c. 142; 1979, c. 415; 1982, c. 636.)