Section 2910 Of Article 1.5. Transfer Of Prisoners From California Penal Code >> Title 1. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 1.5.
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. (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation may enter into an agreement with a city, county, or
city and county to permit transfer of prisoners in the custody of the
secretary to a jail or other adult correctional facility of the
city, county, or city and county, if the sheriff or corresponding
official having jurisdiction over the facility has consented thereto.
The agreement shall provide for contributions to the city, county,
or city and county toward payment of costs incurred with reference to
such transferred prisoners.
(b) When an agreement entered into pursuant to subdivision (a) is
in effect with respect to a particular local facility, the secretary
may transfer prisoners whose terms of imprisonment have been fixed
and parole violators to the facility.
(c) Prisoners so transferred to a local facility may, with
approval of the secretary, participate in programs of the facility,
including, but not limited to, work furlough rehabilitation programs.
(d) Prisoners transferred to such facilities are subject to the
rules and regulations of the facility in which they are confined, but
remain under the legal custody of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation and shall be subject at any time, pursuant to the
rules and regulations of the secretary, to be detained in the county
jail upon the exercise of a state parole or correctional officer's
peace officer powers, as specified in Section 830.5, with the consent
of the sheriff or corresponding official having jurisdiction over
the facility.
(e) The secretary, to the extent possible, shall select city,
county, or city and county facilities in areas where medical, food,
and other support services are available from nearby existing prison
facilities.
(f) The secretary, with the approval of the Department of General
Services, may enter into an agreement to lease state property for a
period not in excess of 20 years to be used as the site for a
facility operated by a city, county, or city and county authorized by
this section.
(g) An agreement shall not be entered into under this section
unless the cost per inmate in the facility is no greater than the
average costs of keeping an inmate in a comparable facility of the
department, as determined by the secretary.
(h) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2017.