Title 5 — Judicial Procedure
63 chapters · 721 sections in this title.
5 V.I.C. § 4501 Findings and purposes
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(1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:(1) The Government has a basic obligation to protect the public by providing institutional confinement and care of offenders and, where appropriate, treatment in the community;(2) Efforts to rehabilitate and restore criminal offe…
5 V.I.C. § 4502 Definitions
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(a) As used in this chapter:(a) “Adult” means a person eighteen years of age or older, or a juvenile transferred from the Family Division to a Court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to section 2508 of this title, and committed to the custody of the Bureau of Corrections for inc…
5 V.I.C. § 4503 Bureau of Corrections
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(a) A Bureau of Corrections is continued as an independent bureau within the Executive Branch of the Government. (b) The Director of Corrections, in cooperation with the Director of Personnel, shall establish minimum qualifications standards for correctional personnel; shall deve…
5 V.I.C. § 4504 Institutions, services and administrative structure
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(a) The Bureau shall be completely responsible for the maintenance, supervision and administration of the following institutions and services:(1) All institutions within the Virgin Islands for the care, custody and correction of persons detained or committed for felonies or misde…
5 V.I.C. § 4505 Cooperation and agreements with other agencies
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The Bureau shall cooperate with the courts and with public and private agencies and officials to assist in attaining the purposes of this chapter. The Bureau may enter into agreements with agencies of Federal or Territorial government and with private agencies concerning the disc…
5 V.I.C. § 4506 Diagnostic facilities and services
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The Bureau shall provide diagnostic facilities to make social, medical, psychological and other appropriate studies of persons committed to its care. At the request of any sentencing court, and in accordance with standards established by the Bureau, diagnostic services shall be p…
5 V.I.C. § 4507 Transfer of mentally ill and mentally retarded inmates
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The Director of Corrections may arrange for the transfer of an inmate for observation and diagnosis to appropriate departments or institutions, provided that he has obtained the prior consent of the administrators of the agencies involved. If the inmate is found, upon appropriate…
5 V.I.C. § 4508 Classification, treatment and discipline
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(a) Persons committed to the institutional care of the Bureau shall be dealt with humanely, with efforts directed to their rehabilitation and return to the community as safely and promptly as practicable. For these purposes, the Director of Corrections shall establish programs of…
5 V.I.C. § 4509 Work by inmates and compensation
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(a) The Bureau of Corrections may require of any able-bodied prisoner as many hours of faithful labor in each and every day during his term of imprisonment as shall be prescribed by the Director of Corrections. However, under no circumstances, nor at any time, shall a prisoner be…
5 V.I.C. § 4510 [Reserved.]
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5 V.I.C. § 4510 Statutes current through Act 9046 of the 2025 session of the 36th Legislature, including all code changes through October 25, 2025 Virgin Islands Code AnnotatedCopyright © 2026 All rights reserved.
5 V.I.C. § 4511 Board of Parole
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Continuation Continuation (a) The Board of Parole in the Virgin Islands is established within the Bureau of Corrections. Continuation (a) The Board of Parole in the Virgin Islands is established within the Bureau of Corrections. (a) The Board of Parole in the Virgin Islands is es…
5 V.I.C. § 4511a Expeditious filling of vacancies
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For the purposes of promoting effective management of the Board of Parole and the faithful execution of the laws of the Virgin Islands, the Governor of the Virgin Islands shall act expeditiously to submit to the Legislature the appointments of members to fill vacancies in the mem…
5 V.I.C. § 4512 Designation of correctional facility reservations
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(a) The Director of Corrections, whenever he deems it necessary in the public interest, may designate a certain area immediately adjacent to any correctional facility as a reservation into which entrance is restricted to authorized persons. Any area so designated shall be clearly…
5 V.I.C. § 4513 Arrests for trespass in restricted area
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Any peace officer or any person employed as a watchman, guard, correctional officer, or in a supervisory capacity at any correctional facility in the Virgin Islands is authorized to stop, frisk and question any person found in any area designated and posted as restricted pursuant…