Education Code § 1900

ARTICLE 14.5. Education of Prisoners

Current as of September 28, 2026Ed. Code, § 1900Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 543, Sec. 1. (AB 1595) Effective January 1, 2020.

The county superintendent of schools, with the approval of the county board of education and the board of supervisors, shall have power to establish and maintain classes or schools for prisoners in any county jail, county honor farm, or any county industrial farm or county or joint county road camp, for the purpose of providing instruction in civic, vocational, literacy, health, family and consumer sciences, technical, and general education.