53.1-154.1 - Authority of Director to recommend parole review; release upon review. - Virginia Statutes

§ 53.1-154.1. Authority of Director to recommend parole review; release uponreview.

The Director is authorized, in accordance with rules and regulations adoptedby the Board of Corrections, to determine those prisoners who may be suitableparole risks and whose interests and those of society will be served by theirearly parole release and to recommend such prisoners to the Parole Board forearly parole consideration. In making such recommendation, the Director shalltake into account the prisoner's criminal history record, mental and physicalcondition, employability, institutional adjustment and such other factors asmay be appropriate, including the risk of violence to others. The case of anysuch prisoner so recommended may be reviewed by the Parole Board prior tosuch prisoner's date of eligibility for parole. Upon appropriate review theParole Board may release on parole prior to the date of eligibility forparole any prisoner so recommended by the Director. However, no prisonershall be released until he has served at least one-fourth of the term ofimprisonment imposed, or until he has served twelve years of the term ofimprisonment imposed if one-fourth of the term of imprisonment imposed ismore than twelve years, except as such time is reduced by any other provisionof law.

This section shall have no application to persons not eligible for parolepursuant to subsections B, B1 and E of § 53.1-151.

(1983, c. 378.)