Chap. 112.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2095 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, relating to prisoners on the State convict road force, so as
to make the same applicable to prisoners in chain gangs, at the State Farm,
and at the State Industrial Farm for Women, and so as to provide for cer-
tain credits against unpaid fines and costs. [S B 9]

Approved March 5, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2095. Every person held to labor in the State convict road
force, or in a chain gang, or State Farm, or State Industrial Farm for
Women, for the non-payment of fine and costs, or costs, shall be
entitled to a credit on such fine and costs, or costs, of seventy-five
cents for each day he or she shall work, and of twenty-five cents for
each other day of confinement. A statement of the amount of the fine
and costs, or costs, shall be made out by the judge or justice trying the
case, or his clerk, and he shall deliver such statement to the person into
whose custody the prisoner is committed for delivery to the State con-
vict road force, chain gang, State Farm, or State Industrial Farm for
Women. The prisoner shall work out the fine and costs, or costs, and
shall thereupon be discharged from custody, provided no person shall
be held for the non-payment of fine and costs, or costs, in the State
convict road force, chain gang, State Farm, or State Industrial Farm
for Women for a longer period than six calendar months, although
the credit due shall not discharge the fine and costs, or costs, in full.

Every person confined, as provided in this section, shall be entitled
to a good conduct allowance under the provisions of section fifty hun-
dred and seventeen of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which shall
also operate to reduce the said six months’ maximum confinement
hereinabove provided for in cases when same is applicable.

Upon discharge from custody, as heretofore provided, the fine and
costs, or costs, of every prisoner shall be discharged in full, and the
person in whose custody he or she shall be at the time of his or her
release shall certify the fact that the prisoner has served his or her
sentence for the non-payment of fine and costs, or costs, to the clerk
of the court, in the office of which the judgment is docketed, who
shall file the said certificate with the papers of the case, and shall
endorse the fact of the discharge of the fine and costs, or costs, by
virtue of such certificate, upon the margin of the judgment lien docket
where the judgment for said fine and costs, or costs, is docketed.

Every person who heretofore shall have been confined according to
the provisions of law at the time in force, and been discharged ac-
cording to such law, shall be entitled to the same relief as is provided
in this act for persons discharged after the same takes effect.