Chap. 46.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 8 of Chapter 217 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1942, approved March 13, 1942, relating to regional jail farms,
so as to limit such farms to male prisoners, to provide that prisoners may be
required to work at such farms, and to prescribe how such prisoners may work
out certain fines and costs. {[S 89]

Approved February 21, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section eight of chapter two hundred seventeen of the Acts
of Assembly of nineteen hundred forty-two be amended and re-enacted,
as follows:

Section 8. Regional farms.—(a) Within the limits of funds avail-
able therefor, the Board is hereby authorized and directed to acquire,
construct, equip, maintain and operate such prison farms, in addition to
those heretofore established, as shall be required for the detention and
proper care of all male persons convicted of offenses against the Com-
monwealth and sentenced to confinement for more than thirty days. All
real estate so acquired shall be held in the name of the Commonwealth.

(b) Such prison farms shall be so located, with reference to prison
farms and jail farms heretofore established and to the several counties
and cities of the State, as to make either a prison farm or jail farm as
accessible as possible to each of the counties and cities.

(c) All buildings, other than temporary buildings and buildings
heretofore constructed, used as dormitories at such prison farms shall be
of fireproof or fire-resisting construction.

(d) In the construction of all buildings and other-structures at such
prison farms, and in the development and equipment of such prison farms,
the Board shall, insofar as possible, make use of prison labor and of prod-
ucts manufactured, processed or produced at institutions under the sup-
ervision and control of the Board.

(e) Any person confined at any such prison farm may be required
to work at such farm, and any such person so employed shall be entitled
to the same credit on fines and costs, or costs, as is allowed prisoners held
to labor in the State convict road force, and the provisions of section
twenty hundred ninety-five of the Code of Virginia relating to such credits
shall be applicable to such fines and costs.