6VAC15-20-140: Inspection schedule

A. All local correctional facilities shall undergo life, health and safety inspections by the Compliance and Accreditation Unit.

B. The Compliance and Accreditation Unit local facilities supervisor shall prepare an annual inspection schedule.

1. The inspection schedule shall not be published outside the Board of Corrections, Department of Corrections and Virginia Department of Health.

2. The inspection schedule shall be prepared in conjunction with the compliance audit schedule.

3. Upon recommendation by the Compliance and Accreditation Unit local facilities supervisor, the board may waive the requirement for an inspection in the year in which a local correctional facility undergoes a compliance audit except in which the local correctional facility administrator changes.

C. New local correctional facilities shall be inspected only after the preparatory audit and first year compliance audit have been completed.

D. Local correctional facility inspections shall be postponed or rescheduled only upon approval of the Compliance and Accreditation Unit local facilities supervisor.