West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB3189: Creating crime of attempting to smuggle contraband into federal correctional institutions within the state
Status: Passed one chamber, April 2, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to add federal correctional institutions to the list of correctional facilities in which is a criminal offense to deliver any thing unlawfully to a person in custody or confined therein.
What the bill says
To amend and reenact §61-5-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to federal correctional institutions; adding federal correctional institutions to the list of correctional facilities in which it is a criminal offense to deliver any thing unlawfully to a person in custody or confined therein. ARTICLE 5. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. §61-5-8. Aiding escape and other offenses relating to adults and juveniles in custody or confinement; penalties. (a) Where any adult or juvenile is lawfully detained in custody or confinement in any jail, state correctional facility, juv.
From the introduced text, March 6, 2025:
A BILL to amend and reenact §61-5-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to federal correctional institutions; adding federal correctional institutions to the list of correctional facilities in which it is a criminal offense to deliver any thing unlawfully to a person in custody or confined therein. ARTICLE 5. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. §61-5-8. Aiding escape and other offenses relating to adults and juveniles in custody or confinement; penalties. (a) Where any adult or juvenile is lawfully detained in custody or confinement in any jail, state correctional facility, juvenile facility or juvenile detention center, or federal correctional facility, if any other person delivers anything into the place of custody or confinement of the adult or juvenile with the intent to aid or facilitate the adult's or juvenile's escape or attempted escape therefrom, or if the other person forcibly rescues or attempts to rescue an adult or a juvenile therefrom, the other person is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in a state correctional facility not less than one nor more than ten years. (b) Where any adult or juvenile is lawfully detained in custody or confinement in any jail, a state correctional facility, or a juvenile facility or juvenile detention center, or federal correctional facility, if any other person delivers any …