{"code":"GOV","codeName":"Government Code","section":"844","citation":"Gov. Code, § 844","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"TITLE 1. GENERAL [100. - 7931.000.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-1"},{"name":"DIVISION 3.6. CLAIMS AND ACTIONS AGAINST PUBLIC ENTITIES AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES [810. - 998.3.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-1/division-3.6"},{"name":"PART 2. LIABILITY OF PUBLIC ENTITIES AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES [814. - 895.8.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-1/division-3.6/part-2"},{"name":"CHAPTER 3. Police and Correctional Activities [844. - 846.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/title-1/division-3.6/part-2/chapter-3"}],"history":"Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 395, Sec. 1.   Effective January 1, 1997.","effective":"1997-01-01","html":"<p>As used in this chapter, “prisoner” includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. For the purposes of this chapter, a lawfully arrested person who is brought into a law enforcement facility for the purpose of being booked, as described in Section <a href=\"/pen/7\">7</a> of the Penal Code, becomes a prisoner, as a matter of law, upon his or her initial entry into a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility, pursuant to penal processes.</p>","text":"As used in this chapter, “prisoner” includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. For the purposes of this chapter, a lawfully arrested person who is brought into a law enforcement facility for the purpose of being booked, as described in Section 7 of the Penal Code, becomes a prisoner, as a matter of law, upon his or her initial entry into a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility, pursuant to penal processes.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/government-code/police-and-correctional-activities-844","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}