Virginia criminal code — article
Article 7: Escape of, Communications with and Deliveries to Prisoners
Article 7 of Chapter 10: Crimes Against the Administration of Justice, Code of Virginia. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Article 7
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-473 — Persons aiding escape of prisoner or child
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-473.1 — Communication with prisoners or committed person; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-473.2 — Covering a security camera in a correctional facility; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-474 — Delivery of articles to prisoners or committed person
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-474.1 — Delivery of drugs, firearms, explosives, etc., to prisoners or committed persons
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-474.2 — Bribery in correctional facilities; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-475 — Officers, etc., voluntarily allowing person convicted, charged, or adjudicated delinquent of felony to escape; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-476 — Officers, etc., willfully and deliberately permitting person convicted of, charged with, or adjudicated delinquent of a nonfelonious offense to escape or willfully refusing to receive person; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-477 — Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-477.1 — Escapes from juvenile facility; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-477.2 — Punishment for certain offenses committed within a secure juvenile facility or detention home
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-478 — Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-479 — Escape without force or violence or setting fire to jail; penalties
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-479.1 — Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-480 — Escape, etc., by setting fire to jail
- Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-480.1 — Admissibility of records of Department of Corrections in escape cases
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