ARTICLE 1. Mistreatment of Prisoners

Article 1 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106.

§§ 2650–2657 · 7 sections

• § 2650 The person of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison or to imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 is under the protection…
• § 2651 No punishment, except as may be authorized by the Director of Corrections, shall be inflicted and then only by the order and under the direction of the…
• § 2652 It shall be unlawful to use in the prisons, any cruel, corporal or unusual punishment or to inflict any treatment or allow any lack of care whatever which…
• § 2652.5 No person employed by the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, or any city or county jail facility shall place any chain or other…
• § 2653 (a) If a physician employed by the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority certifies in writing that a particular medical treatment…
• § 2656 (a) A person sentenced to incarceration or who is being held pursuant to a pending criminal matter in a county or city jail, or other county or city custodial…
• § 2657 (a) No person confined in a state prison, as defined in Section 4504, shall be subject to any institutional disciplinary action subsequent to an acquittal in a…