{"code":"PEN","codeName":"Penal Code","section":"4533","citation":"Pen. Code, § 4533","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"PART 3. OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY [2000. - 10008.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/part-3"},{"name":"TITLE 5. OFFENSES RELATING TO PRISONS AND PRISONERS [4500. - 4758.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/part-3/title-5"},{"name":"CHAPTER 2. Escapes and Rescues [4530. - 4550.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/part-3/title-5/chapter-2"},{"name":"ARTICLE 1. Escapes [4530. - 4537.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/part-3/title-5/chapter-2/article-1"}],"history":"Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 488.   (AB 109)   Effective April 4, 2011.   Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.","effective":"2011-04-04","html":"<p>Every keeper of a prison, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or jailer, or person employed as a guard, who fraudulently contrives, procures, aids, connives at, or voluntarily permits the escape of any prisoner in custody, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section <a href=\"/pen/1170\">1170</a>, and fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).</p>","text":"Every keeper of a prison, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or jailer, or person employed as a guard, who fraudulently contrives, procures, aids, connives at, or voluntarily permits the escape of any prisoner in custody, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, and fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/escapes-4533","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}