CHAPTER 142

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 53-211 and 58-213 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to good conduct allowances for convicts.
[S 151]

Approved February 28, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 53-211 and 53-213 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 53-211. Every person convicted of a felony before October first,
nineteen hundred forty two, who had once before been convicted of a
felony and regularly discharged from the State prison system, or who,
prior to June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and forty-four, had been
returned to the State prison system for violating the terms of a condi-
tional pardon or who had been convicted of a crime while serving his
sentence in the State prison system, or who had escaped or attempted to
escape from the State prison system or from jail while awaiting trial
or removal to the State prison system, shall, for every month he is held
in confinement after such date, in any part of the State prison system,
without violating any prison rule or regulation, be allowed a credit of
fifteen days upon the total term of confinement to which he has been
sentenced, in addition to the time he actually serves. Every person con-
victed of a felony before October first, nineteen hundred forty-two, who,
after such date, is returned to the State prison system for violating the
terms of a conditional pardon, or who commits a crime while serving his
sentence in the State prison system, or who escapes or attempts to escape
from the State prison system, shall, for every twenty days he is held in
confinement after his return to the State prison system or after the com-
mission of such crime or after such escape or attempted escape, without
violating any prison rule or regulation, be allowed a credit of only ten
days upon the total term of confinement to which he has been sentenced,
In addition to the time he actually serves, and so much of an order of any
wii contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed null and
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§ 53-213. Every person who on or after October first, nineteen hun-
dred forty-two has been or is convicted of a felony and every person con-
victed of a misdemeanor and confined in any part of the State prison
system shall, for every twenty days he is or has been held in confinement
after sentence, either in jail awaiting removal to the State prison system
or in any part of the State prison system to which he has been or is sent
to serve the sentence imposed upon him, without violating any jail or
prison rule or regulation, be allowed a credit of ten days upon his total
term of confinement to which he has been or is sentenced in addition to
the time he actually serves or has served. So much of the credit allowed
to misdemeanants by this section as applies to time served prior to June
twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and forty-four, shall be in lieu of, and
not in addition to, any credit they may have earned under the law as it
existed prior to such date, and so much of an order of any court contrary
to the provisions of this section shall be deemed null and void.