Chap. 525.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2094 of the code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1920, in relation to jail pris-
oners on road or quarry force and the credit to be allowed them for good be-
havior. [S B 98]

Approved March 28, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two thousand and ninety-four of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2094. That in all cases where a fine or imprisonment in
jail either or both are imposed, and the minimum period required for
the service of such jail sentence and the time for which the prisoner
can be held to labor for the non-payment of the fine and coSts is not
less than sixty days, the defendant, if a male, whether physically fit
or not, may be sentenced to the State convict road force to work out
such term of imprisonment and the fine and costs under the terms and
conditions provided by this section and section two thousand and ninety-
five of the Code of Virginia, as amended. But no woman shall be
sentenced to the convict road force, and where a male prisoner is
physically unfit for work on said road force he shall be transferred to
the State farm for defective misdemeanants and there confined under
the terms and provisions of chapter two hundred and fourteen of the
acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, establishing a State farm for
defective misdemeanants.

All persons sentenced by any of the courts of this Commonwealth,
or by a justice of the peace, to work on the public roads, in lieu of a
jail sentence, and all persons confined in jail who are worked on said
road force shall be allowed credit for good behavior on their sentences
to the same extent and upon the same terms as are provided by section
five thousand and seventeen of the Code of Virginia, as amended. When
any prisoner is sentenced by any court or justice to work on the public
roads, it shall be the duty of the judge or justice immediately to notifv
the superintendent of the penitentiary of such sentence in each case, and
it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the penitentiary to send
for such prisoner within two weeks from the time such notice is received.