Section 4025 Of Chapter 1. County Jails From California Penal Code >> Title 4. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1.
4025
. (a) The sheriff of each county may establish, maintain and
operate a store in connection with the county jail and for this
purpose may purchase confectionery, tobacco and tobacco users'
supplies, postage and writing materials, and toilet articles and
supplies and sell these goods, articles, and supplies for cash to
inmates in the jail.
(b) The sale prices of the articles offered for sale at the store
shall be fixed by the sheriff. Any profit shall be deposited in an
inmate welfare fund to be kept in the treasury of the county.
(c) There shall also be deposited in the inmate welfare fund 10
percent of all gross sales of inmate hobbycraft.
(d) There shall be deposited in the inmate welfare fund any money,
refund, rebate, or commission received from a telephone company or
pay telephone provider when the money, refund, rebate, or commission
is attributable to the use of pay telephones which are primarily used
by inmates while incarcerated.
(e) The money and property deposited in the inmate welfare fund
shall be expended by the sheriff primarily for the benefit,
education, and welfare of the inmates confined within the jail. Any
funds that are not needed for the welfare of the inmates may be
expended for the maintenance of county jail facilities. Maintenance
of county jail facilities may include, but is not limited to, the
salary and benefits of personnel used in the programs to benefit the
inmates, including, but not limited to, education, drug and alcohol
treatment, welfare, library, accounting, and other programs deemed
appropriate by the sheriff. Inmate welfare funds shall not be used to
pay required county expenses of confining inmates in a local
detention system, such as meals, clothing, housing, or medical
services or expenses, except that inmate welfare funds may be used to
augment those required county expenses as determined by the sheriff
to be in the best interests of inmates. An itemized report of these
expenditures shall be submitted annually to the board of supervisors.
(f) The operation of a store within any other county adult
detention facility which is not under the jurisdiction of the sheriff
shall be governed by the provisions of this section, except that the
board of supervisors shall designate the proper county official to
exercise the duties otherwise allocated in this section to the
sheriff.
(g) The operation of a store within any city adult detention
facility shall be governed by the provisions of this section, except
that city officials shall assume the respective duties otherwise
outlined in this section for county officials.
(h) The treasurer may, pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with
Section 53600), or Article 2 (commencing with Section 53630) of
Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code,
deposit, invest, or reinvest any part of the inmate welfare fund, in
excess of that which the treasurer deems necessary for immediate use.
The interest or increment accruing on these funds shall be deposited
in the inmate welfare fund.
(i) The sheriff may expend money from the inmate welfare fund to
provide indigent inmates, prior to release from the county jail or
any other adult detention facility under the jurisdiction of the
sheriff, with essential clothing and transportation expenses within
the county or, at the discretion of the sheriff, transportation to
the inmate's county of residence, if the county is within the state
or within 500 miles from the county of incarceration. This
subdivision does not authorize expenditure of money from the inmate
welfare fund for the transfer of any inmate to the custody of any
other law enforcement official or jurisdiction.