Chap. 72.——An ACT to establish an industrial farm for women; to provide for
the removal of female prisoners from the Virginia penitentiary thereto; to
provide for the removal of female prisoners from the county, town and city
jails thereto; to provide for the location, construction, equipment and govern-
ment thereof; to provide for the use of certain funds therefor; to authorize
the payment of the jail per diem thereto; to provide for the commitment
thereto of female delinquents by justices, courts and the transfer thereto
from certain institutions and agencies as provided by law. [H B 24]

Approyed February 28, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
is hereby established a State industrial farm for women, including
both felon and misdemeanant, or such other persons as shall be com-
mitted thereto by justices or courts, as provided by law, or who shall
be transferred thereto by proper authority as provided by law. The
State prison board and the commissioner of public welfare, with the
approval of the governor, may select a suitable site for the industrial
farm for women, provided that property owned by the State of Vir-
ginia at the State prison farm, the State farm for defective misdemean-
ants, the several industrial schools or elsewhere shall be carefully con-
sidered in the location of said industrial farm for women and shall be
used unless the use of such property is deemed inadvisable for the
safety, welfare and proper development of said industrial farm for
women, and, further, provided that should the said industrial farm for
women be located elsewhere than on property now owned by the State
of Virginia, or that may be acquired without cost to the State of Vir-
ginia, the acreage shall be limited to that amount deemed absolutely
necessary for the welfare of the said industrial farm for women, and
may cause to be erected thereon all necessary buildings and equipment
and may, if they find it expedient, use prison labor from the peniten-
tiary system or jails thereon in the construction, equipment or mainte-
nance thereof. The operation of the industrial farm for women shall
be under the control of the State prison board in the manner now
provided or shall be provided for the operation of the penitentiary
system. Upon the completion of the necessary buildings and equipment
at the industrial farm for women, the State prison board may, with the
approval of the governor, transfer thereto the female prisoners now
held at or hereafter committed to the penitentiary at Richmond; and
all adult female prisoners in county and city jails whose sentence is
final may be transferred thereto in the manner now provided in section
thirty-five hundred and ten of the Code of Virginia for the transfer
of jail prisoners to State, city and county farms. The industrial farm
for women shall be equipped with medical, clinical, vocational and
educational facilities necessary for the proper care of the women com-
mitted thereto. Any or all of the accrued balance of any or all of
the institutions under the control of the State prison board may, with
the approval of the governor, be used in the establishment of the in-
dustrial farm for women; and where a person is detained at the indus-
trial farm for women in lieu of a county or city jail, the industrial
farm for women shall be entitled to the jail per diem as now provided
or shall be provided by law in the same manner in which the State farm
for defective misdemeanants is now entitled to said jail per diem, pro-
vided that the said per diem shall in no case be less than the average
per diem at the said State farm for defective misdemeanants for the
corresponding period.

Upon the opening of the industrial farm for women, by procla-
mation of the governor, all females convicted of felony and given a
penitentiary sentence may be committed by the court to the industrial
farm for women instead of the penitentiary at Richmond, as pre-
viously provided by law, it being the purpose of this act to remove
female prisoners from the penitentiary at Richmond, and from the jails
as far as practicable, to the industrial farm for women, where they
may be properly segregated, given necessary medical attention, employ-
ment and discipline.