Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 53.1 > Chapter 7 - Crimes and Criminal Proceedings Involving Prisoners

• Community correctional facility: means any group home, halfway house or other physically unrestricting facility used for the housing, treatment or care of adult offenders established or operated with funds appropriated to the Department of Corrections from the state treasury and maintained or operated by any political subdivision, combination of political subdivisions or privately operated agency within the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 53.1-1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Correctional officer: means a duly sworn employee of the Department of Corrections whose normal duties relate to maintaining immediate control, supervision and custody of prisoners confined in any state correctional facility. See Virginia Code 53.1-1
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Corrections. See Virginia Code 53.1-1
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Public institution of higher education: includes the System as a whole and each associate-degree-granting and baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 23.1-100
• State correctional facility: means any correctional center or correctional field unit used for the incarceration of adult offenders established and operated by the Department of Corrections, or operated under contract pursuant to § Virginia Code 53.1-1