CHAPTER 2. The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [5050. - 5073.]

Heading of Chapter 2 amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 10, Sec. 35.

§§ 5050–5073 · 36 sections

§ 5050 Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Director of Corrections in this or any other code refers to the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and…
§ 5051.2 The Director of Corrections shall have wide and successful administrative experience in adult or youth correctional programs embodying rehabilitative concepts.
§ 5052 Any officer or employee of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation designated in writing by the secretary, shall have the power of a head of a…
§ 5054 Commencing July 1, 2005, the supervision, management and control of the state prisons, and the responsibility for the care, custody, treatment, training,…
§ 5054.1 The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has full power to order returned to custody any person under the secretary’s jurisdiction.…
§ 5054.2 Whenever a person is incarcerated in a state prison for violating Section 261, 264.1, 266c, 285, 286, 287, 288, 288.5, 289, or former Section 288a, and the…
§ 5055 Commencing July 1, 2005, all powers and duties previously granted to and imposed upon the Department of Corrections shall be exercised by the Secretary of the…
§ 5055.5 (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall develop a Data Dashboard as described in subdivisions (b) and (c) for each…
§ 5056 (a) Each state prison under the jurisdiction of the department shall have a citizens’ advisory committee except that one committee may serve every prison…
§ 5056.1 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that due to the local conditions resulting in the Chino Valley Independent Fire District having within its area of…
§ 5057 (a) Subject to the powers of the Department of Finance under Section 13300 of the Government Code, the secretary shall establish an accounting and auditing…
§ 5057.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 11005 of the Government Code, the Director of Corrections may accept a gift or donation of goods or services to the state following…
§ 5058 (a) (1) The director may prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of the prisons and for the administration of the parole of persons…
§ 5058.1 (a) For the purposes of this section, “pilot program” means a program implemented on a temporary and limited basis in order to test and evaluate the…
§ 5058.2 (a) Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code does not apply to a department action or policy…
§ 5058.3 (a) Emergency adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation by the director shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part…
§ 5058.4 (a) The director shall provide for the development and implementation of a disciplinary matrix with offenses and associated punishments applicable to all…
§ 5058.5 In addition to the services rendered by physicians and surgeons, including psychiatrists, or by psychologists, pursuant to Sections 5068 and 5079, physicians…
§ 5058.6 The Director of the Department of Corrections shall have the authority of a head of a department set forth in subdivision (e) of Section 11181 of the…
§ 5058.7 (a) The department shall approve an attorney’s request to have a confidential call with the inmate that they represent. The approved confidential call shall be…
§ 5059 This title shall not affect the powers or jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation as to road camps pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section…
§ 5060 The Director of Corrections may assist persons discharged, paroled, or otherwise released from confinement in an institution of the department and may secure…
§ 5061 Whenever any person confined in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections dies, and no demand or claim is made upon the…
§ 5062 Whenever any person confined in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections escapes, or is discharged or paroled from that…
§ 5063 Before any money or other personal property or documents are delivered to the State Treasurer, State Controller, or public administrator, or sold at auction or…
§ 5064 At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the Treasurer or Controller under Section 5061 or of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1500)…
§ 5065 When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Section 5061 or 5062, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the State or…
§ 5065.5 (a) A person or entity that enters into a contract with a criminal offender for the sale of the story of a crime for which the offender was convicted shall…
§ 5066 The Director of Corrections shall expand the existing prison ombudsman program to ensure the comprehensive deployment of ombudsmen throughout the state prison…
§ 5068 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Incarcerated person’s home” means a place where the incarcerated…
§ 5068.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), any person employed or under contract to provide diagnostic, treatment, or…
§ 5069 (a) The administrative director of the Division of Industrial Accidents shall formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of injured inmates of…
§ 5070 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sex of a prison inmate shall not prevent the Director of Corrections from assigning any prison inmate to…
§ 5071 (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall not assign any prison inmate to employment that provides that inmate with access to…
§ 5072 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the State Department of Health Care Services may develop a…
§ 5073 (a) When jurisdiction of an inmate is transferred from or between the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Department of State Hospitals,…