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. (a) Whenever within any county adult detention facility or
part of any county detention facility used for the confinement of
adults, not including any city jail, any facility, including but not
limited to any room or cell, vocational training facility, recreation
area, rest area, dining room, store, or facility for the exercise of
religious freedom, is provided for use by any prisoner for any
purpose, a separate facility of equal quality, or separate use of the
same facility, or joint use of the same facility where appropriate,
shall be provided for prisoners of the opposite sex for such purpose.
(b) Whenever within any county adult detention facility or part of
any county detention facility used for the confinement of adults,
not including any city jail, any program, service or privilege,
including but not limited to any general or vocational education,
physical education or recreation, work furlough program,
psychological counseling, work within the institution, visiting
privileges, or medical treatment, is provided for any prisoner, such
a program, service or privilege of equal quality shall be provided
for prisoners of the opposite sex, except when the proportion of
prisoners of one sex is so small that the cost of providing any
program, service or privilege described in this subdivision, other
than medical treatment or health maintenance, for such prisoners
would not be justified in relation to the reduction in the level of
any other program, service or privilege that would result from the
diversion of funds for such purpose.
(c) Nothing in this section shall require the establishment of any
facility for the use of, or the making available of any program,
service or privilege to, any prisoner. Nothing in this section shall
require any facility, program, service or privilege established or
available prior or subsequent to January 1, 1975, to be made
available to any particular male or female prisoner or number of such
prisoners, except that any type of facility, program, service or
privilege which is made accessible or available to all male or female
prisoners in any class defined by subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 of
Section 4001 shall be made accessible or available to all prisoners
of the opposite sex in such class as provided in subdivisions (a) and
(b), and any criterion other than the sex of the prisoner which is
used for the selection of a particular prisoner or group of prisoners
to have, or to have access to, any facility, program, service or
privilege shall be equally applied to the selection of all prisoners,
regardless of sex.
(d) Every county shall comply with subdivisions (a), (b), and (c)
by January 1, 1979. Such compliance shall not be required unless the
Legislature provides funds to assist in the accomplishment of such
compliance. Every county shall report to the Legislature by January
1, 1976, as to whether such compliance can be accomplished, and
stating the reasons why it cannot be accomplished if that be the
case.
(e) Whenever within any county adult detention facility or part of
any county detention facility used for the confinement of adults,
not including any city jail, an inpatient psychiatric facility
designated by the county mental health director to treat patients
under Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000) and Division 6
(commencing with Section 6000) of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
is provided for prisoners of one sex who may not depart from the
detention facility for treatment elsewhere, and where the proportion
of prisoners of the opposite sex requiring the same type of treatment
is so small that the cost of providing a separate program of equal
quality would not be justified in relation to the reduction in the
level of another program, service, or privilege that would result
from the diversion of funds for such purpose, the above designated
mental health treatment program may treat prisoners of both sexes if
each of the following conditions is met:
(1) The program is one that would be considered suitable for the
treatment of patients of both sexes if it were located in a
psychiatric treatment facility devoted to evaluation and treatment
under Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000) and Division 6
(commencing with Section 6000) of the Welfare and Institutions Code
for patients who are not prisoners.
(2) A female deputy sheriff or other suitable woman assigned to
jail duty is assigned to the treatment program in accordance with
Sections 4020.4, 4020.7, 4020.8, and 4021 of this code.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4020.4 of this code, in a
county of any size, the sheriff may designate a female member of the
mental health treatment staff for this assignment.