Chapter 28, Chapter 28

The State Commissioner of Corrections shall be charged with the care, training and reformation of male youths of the state committed to his custody. Education of the male youths is subject to the provisions of section thirteen-f, article two, chapter eighteen of this code. All st…

(a) Any male youth between the ages of 10 and 18 years may be committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections by a circuit court of this state in the manner prescribed in §49-4-701 through §49-4-725 of this code; and further, any male youth who has been adjudged delin…

As soon as practicable after a youth, on any account, is committed to the custody of the state commissioner of public institutions, the papers in the case shall be mailed to the superintendent of the receiving youth facility, and such youth shall remain in the custody of the cour…

The State Commissioner of Corrections shall have authority to make such rules and regulations for the management and government of the facilities for youthful offenders under his control, and the instruction, discipline, training, employment and disposition of the boys and their …

The state commissioner of public institutions shall have authority, under such rules and regulations as the commissioner may prescribe, to grant, on the recommendation of the superintendent, a discharge or parole to any inmate of any of the various facilities; but while such inma…

In any case where a youth is committed to any youth facility for an offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, and it is found by the state commissioner of public institutions that the youth facility is unable to benefit such youth, and that his presence is a detrimen…

If any person shall entice or attempt to entice away from any youth facility any youth legally committed to the same, or shall aid or abet any youth to escape therefrom, or shall harbor, conceal or aid or abet in harboring or concealing, any youth who shall have escaped therefrom…

(a) Effective July 1, 2013, the West Virginia Industrial Home for Youth shall be known as the Salem Correctional Center. The Salem Correctional Center is hereby transferred to the Division of Corrections. (b) Commencing July 1, 2013, wherever the "West Virginia Industrial Home fo…

The West Virginia prison for women, a penal institution exclusively for female prisoners, located at Pence Springs, Summers County, West Virginia is hereby closed. The title to all real property at the West Virginia prison for women is hereby transferred to and vested in the publ…

Any adult female found guilty of committing a felony as defined in section one, article eleven, chapter sixty-one, who is not placed on probation in accordance with the provisions of article twelve, chapter sixty-two, shall be committed to the custody of the state department of c…

(a) No person who is, or was considered to be, mentally ill, intellectually disabled or addicted shall be denied parole or a parole hearing based upon such past or present condition. In the event a convicted person is deemed to be an appropriate candidate for parole, but for a co…

When a person is confined in the penitentiary of this or any other state, or of the United States, under sentence for one year or more, or to suffer death, the estate of such convict in this state, if he have any, both real and personal, shall, on the motion of any party interest…

If the person so appointed refuse the trust, or fail to give bond as aforesaid, the county court, on like motion, shall, or such court may in the first instance, commit the estate to the sheriff of the county, who shall be the committee, and he and the sureties on his official bo…

The committee shall have the estate appraised, return inventories, render accounts of his trust, and be made to account therefor, shall be entitled to compensation for his services, and may forfeit his right thereto, all in the same manner, to the same extent, and within the same…

Such committee may sue and be sued in respect to debts due to or from such convict, and respecting all other causes of action for which the convict might sue or be sued had no such incarceration taken place, and shall have the privilege of an administrator as to the right of reta…

The committee of any convict who was, at the time of incarceration, a resident of this state shall allow (subject to the claims of creditors) a sufficient maintenance out of the convict's estate for his wife and family, if any; the wife to be entitled, as long as he is confined, …

If the personal estate of such convict be insufficient for the discharge of his debts, or if such estate, or the residue thereof after payment of the debts, and the rents and profits of the real estate, be insufficient for the maintenance of the wife and family of such convict, w…

Every committee of a convict shall deliver such estate as he may be liable for at that time to the convict on his discharge, or to his heirs, devisees or personal representatives, on his death.

The committee or other similar fiduciary appointed in any other state for any convict who was a nonresident of this state at the time of his incarceration, and who at such time was possessed of estate within this state, may, in the manner and under the same conditions as are pres…

The Governor of this state is authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of West Virginia with any state or states of the United States legally joining therein, in form substantially as follows: ARTICLE I. PURPOSE. (a) The compacting states to this inters…

(a) Within thirty days of the effective date of this article, there shall be created a state council for interstate adult offender supervision. Said state council shall be comprised of a total of nine members, to be selected and designated as follows: (1) Two members designated b…

(a) Upon and after the effective date of the interstate compact for adult offender supervision, the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to designate an officer who shall be the compact administrator and who, acting jointly with like offices of the other party states, shal…

On and after July 1, 2004, the Division of Corrections may charge an application fee set by the division, not to exceed $100, to adult offenders applying for transfer out-of-state under the interstate compact for the supervision of adult offenders. There is created a special reve…