W. Va. Code § 15-1E-58
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§15-1E-58. Execution of confinement.
Official statutory text
(a) A sentence of confinement adjudged by a court-martial, whether or not the sentence includes discharge or dismissal, and whether or not the discharge or dismissal has been executed, may be carried into execution by confinement in any place authorized by this article. Persons so confined are subject to the same discipline and treatment as persons regularly confined or committed to that place of confinement.
(b) The omission of "hard labor" as a sentence authorized under this article does not deprive the state confinement facility from employing it, if it otherwise is within the authority of that facility to do so.
(c) No place of confinement may require payment of any fee or charge for so receiving or confining a person except as otherwise provided by law.
(b) The omission of "hard labor" as a sentence authorized under this article does not deprive the state confinement facility from employing it, if it otherwise is within the authority of that facility to do so.
(c) No place of confinement may require payment of any fee or charge for so receiving or confining a person except as otherwise provided by law.
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