Jurris.COM
Article 1. General Provisions of California Penal Code >> Title 9. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
Community-Based Punishment Act of 1994.
The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:
(a) Community-based punishment programs require a partnership between the state and local government to provide and expand the use of intermediate sanctions for specifically targeted offender populations.
(b) Community-based programs must operate to punish offenders while at the same time providing opportunities to change behavior.
(c) Community-based punishment programs provide appropriate means of managing select offenders but should not be viewed as the only solution to prison overcrowding.
(d) Community-based punishment programs target prison-bound and jail-bound nonviolent offenders because this group poses the least risk to the public and is the most amenable to the individualized programming and services offered by community-based programs.
(e) Community-based punishment programs emphasize reducing local jail populations, thereby making jail space available for new commitments, parole violators, and probation violators who are now being sent to jail and nonviolent felons who have already been sent to prison for short periods of time.
(f) Community-based punishment programs must be financed from a consistent, reliable, and separate funding source.
(g) Community-based punishment programs should be expanded incrementally with a variety of pilot approaches tested to determine their effectiveness prior to expansion.
(h) In order to effectively utilize available resources, to ensure appropriate management of the local offender population, each county utilizing community-based punishment programs must implement a locally coordinated planning process.
(i) Since successful community-based punishment programs are dependent on the coordinated efforts of, and successful working relationships between, state and local agencies, the Board of Corrections is the logical state agency to coordinate community punishment efforts because of its extensive experience with collaborative state and local programs.
(a) Community-based punishment programs require a partnership between the state and local government to provide and expand the use of intermediate sanctions for specifically targeted offender populations.
(b) Community-based programs must operate to punish offenders while at the same time providing opportunities to change behavior.
(c) Community-based punishment programs provide appropriate means of managing select offenders but should not be viewed as the only solution to prison overcrowding.
(d) Community-based punishment programs target prison-bound and jail-bound nonviolent offenders because this group poses the least risk to the public and is the most amenable to the individualized programming and services offered by community-based programs.
(e) Community-based punishment programs emphasize reducing local jail populations, thereby making jail space available for new commitments, parole violators, and probation violators who are now being sent to jail and nonviolent felons who have already been sent to prison for short periods of time.
(f) Community-based punishment programs must be financed from a consistent, reliable, and separate funding source.
(g) Community-based punishment programs should be expanded incrementally with a variety of pilot approaches tested to determine their effectiveness prior to expansion.
(h) In order to effectively utilize available resources, to ensure appropriate management of the local offender population, each county utilizing community-based punishment programs must implement a locally coordinated planning process.
(i) Since successful community-based punishment programs are dependent on the coordinated efforts of, and successful working relationships between, state and local agencies, the Board of Corrections is the logical state agency to coordinate community punishment efforts because of its extensive experience with collaborative state and local programs.
As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply:
(a) "Board" means the Board of Corrections, unless otherwise indicated.
(b) "Chief correctional administrator" means the sheriff, chief probation officer, or director of the county department of corrections, who is designated by the board of supervisors to have administrative responsibility for county corrections operations and programs, including a community-based punishment program.
(c) "Community-based punishment" means a partnership between the state and a county or a collaboration of counties to manage and provide correctional services, especially those services considered to be intermediate sanctions at the local level of government for targeted, select offender populations pursuant to the community corrections plan of a county or a collaboration of counties.
(d) "Community-based punishment plan" means the proposal for a community-based punishment program promulgated by a county or a collaboration of counties that has been developed by the chief correctional administrator, in cooperation with the district attorney, public defender, and other concerned community representatives designated by the board of supervisors, to address correctional needs in that county or collaboration of counties.
(e) "Intermediate sanctions" means punishment options and sanctions other than simple incarceration in prison or jail or traditional routine probation supervision. Intermediate sanctions may be provided by correctional agencies directly or through community-based public or private correctional service providers, and include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Short-term "shock" incarceration in either jail or prison, for a period of not more than 60 days.
(2) Incarceration in a "boot camp" facility.
(3) Intensive supervision.
(4) Home detention with electronic monitoring.
(5) Mandatory community service.
(6) Restorative justice programs such as mandatory victim restitution and victim-offender reconciliation.
(7) Work, training, or education in a furlough program pursuant to Section 1208.
(8) Work, in lieu of confinement, in a work release program pursuant to Section 4024.2.
(9) Day reporting.
(10) Mandatory residential or nonresidential substance abuse treatment programs established pursuant to Chapter 9.4 (commencing with Section 6240) of Title 7.
(11) Mandatory random drug testing.
(12) Mother-infant care programs.
(13) Community-based residential programs offering structure, supervision, drug treatment, alcohol treatment, literacy programming, employment counseling, psychological counseling, or any combination of these and other interventions.
(f) "Nonviolent offender" means a person who is not currently charged with a violent crime, as defined in Section 667.5, does not have a criminal record that includes a violent crime, meets the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Model Classification System guidelines for classification as a nonviolent offender, and does not pose a risk to the community, as determined by the correctional administrator.
(a) "Board" means the Board of Corrections, unless otherwise indicated.
(b) "Chief correctional administrator" means the sheriff, chief probation officer, or director of the county department of corrections, who is designated by the board of supervisors to have administrative responsibility for county corrections operations and programs, including a community-based punishment program.
(c) "Community-based punishment" means a partnership between the state and a county or a collaboration of counties to manage and provide correctional services, especially those services considered to be intermediate sanctions at the local level of government for targeted, select offender populations pursuant to the community corrections plan of a county or a collaboration of counties.
(d) "Community-based punishment plan" means the proposal for a community-based punishment program promulgated by a county or a collaboration of counties that has been developed by the chief correctional administrator, in cooperation with the district attorney, public defender, and other concerned community representatives designated by the board of supervisors, to address correctional needs in that county or collaboration of counties.
(e) "Intermediate sanctions" means punishment options and sanctions other than simple incarceration in prison or jail or traditional routine probation supervision. Intermediate sanctions may be provided by correctional agencies directly or through community-based public or private correctional service providers, and include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Short-term "shock" incarceration in either jail or prison, for a period of not more than 60 days.
(2) Incarceration in a "boot camp" facility.
(3) Intensive supervision.
(4) Home detention with electronic monitoring.
(5) Mandatory community service.
(6) Restorative justice programs such as mandatory victim restitution and victim-offender reconciliation.
(7) Work, training, or education in a furlough program pursuant to Section 1208.
(8) Work, in lieu of confinement, in a work release program pursuant to Section 4024.2.
(9) Day reporting.
(10) Mandatory residential or nonresidential substance abuse treatment programs established pursuant to Chapter 9.4 (commencing with Section 6240) of Title 7.
(11) Mandatory random drug testing.
(12) Mother-infant care programs.
(13) Community-based residential programs offering structure, supervision, drug treatment, alcohol treatment, literacy programming, employment counseling, psychological counseling, or any combination of these and other interventions.
(f) "Nonviolent offender" means a person who is not currently charged with a violent crime, as defined in Section 667.5, does not have a criminal record that includes a violent crime, meets the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Model Classification System guidelines for classification as a nonviolent offender, and does not pose a risk to the community, as determined by the correctional administrator.
