Section 5069 Of Chapter 2. The Secretary Of The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation From California Penal Code >> Title 7. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2.
5069
. (a) The administrative director of the Division of Industrial
Accidents shall formulate procedures for the selection and orderly
referral of injured inmates of state penal or correctional
institutions who may be benefited by rehabilitation services and
retrained for other positions upon release from incarceration. The
State Department of Rehabilitation shall cooperate in both designing
and monitoring results of rehabilitation programs for the disabled
inmates. The primary purpose of this section is to rehabilitate
injured inmates in order that they might engage in suitable and
gainful employment upon their release.
(b) The director shall notify the injured inmate of the
availability of rehabilitation services in those cases where there is
continuing disability of 28 days and beyond. A copy of such
notification shall be forwarded to the State Department of
Rehabilitation.
(c) The initiation of a rehabilitation plan shall be the
responsibility of the director.
(d) Upon establishment of a rehabilitation plan, the injured
inmate shall cooperate in carrying it out.
(e) The injured inmate shall receive such medical and vocational
rehabilitative services as may be reasonably necessary to restore him
to suitable employment.
(f) The injured inmate's rehabilitation benefit is an additional
benefit and shall not be converted to or replace any workmen's
compensation benefit available to him.