Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Re: Jail Time

In virginia an inmate serving his/her sentence in

the local county or city jail normally receives

one day deducted from their sentence for each day

served, providing they have maintained good behaviour.

Therefore, someone serving a 10 day sentence in the

Arlington Co. Detention Center would actually do

five days time as long as his/her behaviour is non-

problematical.

However, someone doing penitentiary time

(felony and more than one year)for an offense

committed after Jan. 1, 1995, must serve approxi-

mately 87 to 88 percent of the time before they

are elgible for release.