Inmate Reintegration & Modified Incarceration Programs

The Weekender Program

The Weekender Program allows offenders to serve their sentences on non-consecutive days to maintain employment. Offenders must be ordered into the Weekender Program by the court and should submit requests through their attorney.

Payment of Weekender Program fees must be received no later than 4 p.m. the Thursday before you report. Payments may be paid weekly or in full via the following methods:

• Cash, money order, or certified/cashier check made payable to the Treasurer, City of Virginia Beach.
• In-person at the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office Accounting window or drop box, both located inside the Visitation Lobby (Building 7, 2425 Nimmo Parkway), Accounting and drop boxes are available Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. Drop boxes are also available 6-9 p.m. daily and on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. In-person payments by money order or cashier checks are also accepted at the Correctional Center Property window (located around the corner from the Visitation Lobby), open daily from 12-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Mailed to: Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office, P.O. Box 6469, Virginia Beach, VA 23456, Attention: Accounting
• Mailed to: Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office, P.O. Box 6469, Virginia Beach, VA 23456, Attention: Accounting
• Please Print Name and Social Security Number on All Payments

Weekender Program Rules:

• All weekenders are subject to random drug and alcohol testing. Any person reporting for weekend incarceration who is found under the influence of drugs or alcohol will be subject to arrest and appropriate legal action will be taken. Please see additional information in the VBSO Drug and Alcohol Amendment .
• All weekenders must report to the Sally port area of the Correctional Center (map below) at the time ordered by the court. Unless otherwise excused by the Sheriff, reporting after the time ordered by the court shall result in the revocation of the privilege of serving the sentence on weekends or non-consecutive days and the defendant being detained to serve the remaining balance of the jail sentence on straight time.
• All weekenders must pay an amount to defray the cost of their non-consecutive incarceration. Unless otherwise excused by the Sheriff (anytime) or by the courts (no later than the Thursday at 4 p.m. before you are due in), a person’s failure to pay the daily weekender and room and board fees shall result in the privilege of serving the sentence imposed on non-consecutive days being immediately revoked. The required fees are a one-time $50 processing fee and $7 per day. The Weekender Program office may be contacted during normal business hours at (757) 385-1050.
• Additional rules are listed in the Weekender Program General Rules document.

Additional Programs

The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office provides a wide variety of programs to aid in the rehabilitation of offenders. Programs include the following:

• Inmate Workforce: This takes approximately 45 inmates out into the community (with deputy supervision) to landscape and maintain public property and provide low-cost tents for charitable events (inmates receive additional food and privileges and can earn time off their sentences);
• Trusty Program: This allows inmates to provide cleaning and maintenance services throughout the Correctional Center, prepare and serve meals for their fellow inmates, do laundry and help with other tasks (inmates receive additional food and privileges and can earn time off their sentences);
• Reentry Program: A three-month program to prepare inmates to successfully reenter society after their sentence has been served;
• GED Program: This provides instruction and testing for inmates who haven’t graduated high school to earn their GED (General Educational Development) diploma;
• Jail Education Services (JES): A division of the Virginia Beach Department of Human Services that provides educational services, including to special education inmates with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs);
• Life Empowerment Program (LEP): This offers inmates a three-phase, biblically-based opportunity to improve their basic life skills;
• Religious Program: This provides counseling and religious services to inmates of all faiths through the Chaplain’s Office;
• Recovery Program (formerly the Substance Abuse Program): A 12-step, 20-week program to help inmates learn to live drug- and alcohol-free; and
• Veterans Program: A dedicated housing unit and four-week program for current and former military service members that provides veteran-specific services.
• Weekender Offsite Work Crew, which permits qualified Weekender applicants to work for other City departments as an alternative to spending weekends in the jail;
• Electronic Home Incarceration Program (EHIP), which allows offenders who have secured employment to be released from jail under the supervision of the Sheriff’s Office utilizing GPS-enabled ankle bracelets; and the
• Offender Support Unit (OSU), which permits offenders to report to the Sheriff’s Office each day for work either within the jail or in the community and then be released to go home at the end of each workday.

Inmates may be ordered into a program by the court or may request placement into a program by submitting an Inmate Request Form. Inmates must meet the eligible criteria and may be removed from a program for any reason, including institutional rule violations or failure to participate.

For more information, please contact vbsoinmateprograms@vbgov.com.