SB754: Child-friendly visiting rooms; state correctional facilities required to provide.

SENATE BILL NO. 754
Offered January 10, 2007
Prefiled December 7, 2006
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 53.1-25.2, relating to child-friendly visiting rooms in state correctional facilities.
Patron-- Miller

Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 53.1-25.2 as follows:

§ 53.1-25.2.  Child-friendly visiting rooms in state correctional facilities.

Each state correctional facility shall provide child-friendly visiting rooms in order to encourage healthy bonds between incarcerated parents and their children.  These child-friendly visiting rooms shall include activities for young children, adequate facilities with areas for nursing, and regulations that do not penalize inmates with sanctions, such as termination of a visit, due to normal behavior of visiting children.