Section 2911 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 Director of Corrections may enter into contracts,
with the approval of the Director of General Services, with
appropriate officials or agencies of the United States for the
confinement, care, education, treatment, and employment of those
persons convicted of criminal offenses in the courts of this state
and committed to state prisons as the director believes can benefit
by the confinement, care, education, treatment, and employment.
(b) Any contract entered into pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
provide for (1) reimbursement to the United States government for the
cost of those services, including any costs incurred by the
government in transporting the prisoners, and (2) any other matters
as may be necessary and appropriate to fix the obligations,
responsibilities and rights of the respective parties to the
contract.
(c) No inmate may be transferred from an institution within this
state to a federal facility pursuant to a contract entered into
pursuant to subdivision (a) unless he or she has executed, in the
presence of the warden or other head of the institution in this state
in which he or she is confined, a written consent to the transfer.
The inmate shall have the right to a private consultation with an
attorney of his or her choice, concerning his or her rights and
obligations under this section, prior to his or her appearance before
the warden or other head of the institution for the purpose of
executing the written consent.
(d) Whenever a contract has been made pursuant to this section the
director may direct the transfer of an inmate to the facility
designated and shall thereafter deliver the inmate to the custody of
the appropriate federal officials for transportation to that
facility. An inmate so transferred shall at all times be subject to
the jurisdiction of this state and may at any time be removed from
the facility in which he or she is confined for return to this state,
for transfer to another facility in which this state may have a
contractual or other right to confine inmates, for release on
probation or parole, for discharge, or for any other purpose
permitted by the laws of this state; in all other respects, an inmate
transferred to a federal facility shall be subject to all provisions
of the law or regulations applicable to persons committed for
violations of laws of the United States not inconsistent with the
sentence imposed on the inmate.
(e) The Board of Prison Terms, and the panels and members thereof,
may meet at the federal facility where an inmate is confined
pursuant to this section or enter into cooperative arrangements with
corresponding federal agencies or officials, as necessary to carry
out the term-fixing and parole functions. Nothing in this subdivision
shall be deemed to waive an inmate's right to personally appear
before the Board of Prison Terms.
(f) Any inmate confined pursuant to a contract entered into
pursuant to this section shall be released within the territory of
this state unless the inmate, this state and the federal government
shall agree upon release in some other place. This state shall bear
the cost of return of the inmate to its territory.
(g) This section shall not apply to an inmate who is transferred
by the Department of Corrections to the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service pursuant to Section 5025.