ARTICLE 3. Paroles

Article 3 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106.

§§ 3040–3073.1 · 69 sections

§ 3040 The Board of Parole Hearings shall have the power to allow prisoners imprisoned in the state prisons pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1168 to go upon…
§ 3041 (a) (1) In the case of any inmate sentenced pursuant to any law, other than Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 1170) of Title 7 of Part 2, the Board of…
§ 3041.1 (a) Any time before an inmate’s release, the Governor may request review of a decision by a parole authority concerning the grant or denial of parole to any…
§ 3041.2 (a) During the 30 days following the granting, denial, revocation, or suspension by the board of the parole of an inmate sentenced to an indeterminate prison…
§ 3041.5 (a) At all hearings for the purpose of reviewing an inmate’s parole suitability, or the setting, postponing, or rescinding of parole, with the exception of en…
§ 3041.6 The Board of Parole Hearings may conduct proceedings by videoconference. All references in this article and Article 4 of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section…
§ 3041.7 At any hearing for the purpose of setting, postponing, or rescinding a parole release date of an inmate under a life sentence, the inmate shall be entitled to…
§ 3041.8 (a) The Board of Parole Hearings shall translate all of the following documents into the five most common languages spoken by incarcerated persons who are…
§ 3042 (a) (1) At least 30 days before the Board of Parole Hearings meets to review or consider the parole suitability of any inmate sentenced to a life sentence, the…
§ 3043 (a) (1) Upon request to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and verification of the identity of the requester, notice of any hearing to review or…
§ 3043.1 Notwithstanding any other law, a victim, his or her next of kin, or any immediate family member of the victim who appears at any hearing to review or consider…
§ 3043.2 (a) (1) In lieu of personal appearance at any hearing to review the parole suitability, the Board of Parole Hearings shall permit the victim, his or her next…
§ 3043.25 Any victim, next of kin, members of the victim’s immediate family, or representatives designated for a particular hearing by the victim or next of kin in…
§ 3043.3 As used in Sections 3043, 3043.1, 3043.2, and 3043.25, the term “immediate family” shall include the victim’s spouse, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, and…
§ 3043.5 (a) This section shall be known as the “Condit-Nolan Public Participation in Parole Act of 1984.” (b) Any person interested in the grant or denial of parole to…
§ 3043.6 Any person authorized to appear at a parole hearing pursuant to Section 3043, or a prosecutor authorized to represent the views of the victim, his or her…
§ 3044 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Board of Parole Hearings or its successor in interest shall be the state’s parole authority and shall be responsible for…
§ 3045 Any sentence based on conviction of crime of which the person was previously pardoned on the express ground that he was not guilty shall not be counted as a…
§ 3046 (a) An inmate imprisoned under a life sentence shall not be paroled until he or she has served the greater of the following: (1) A term of at least seven…
§ 3049 In all other cases not heretofore provided for, no prisoner sentenced prior to July 1, 1977 may be paroled until he has served the minimum term of imprisonment…
§ 3049.5 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3049, any prisoner selected for inclusion in a specific research program approved by the Board of Corrections may be…
§ 3050 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any inmate under the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who is not currently serving…
§ 3051 (a) (1) A youth offender parole hearing is a hearing by the Board of Parole Hearings for the purpose of reviewing the parole suitability of any prisoner who…
§ 3051.1 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 3051, the board shall complete all youth offender parole hearings for individuals who were sentenced to…
§ 3052 The Board of Parole Hearings shall have the power to establish and enforce rules and regulations under which inmates committed to state prisons may be allowed…
§ 3053 (a) The Board of Parole Hearings upon granting any parole to any prisoner may also impose on the parole any conditions that it may deem proper. (b) The Board…
§ 3053.2 (a) Upon the request of the victim, or the victim’s parent or legal guardian if the victim is a minor, the Board of Parole Hearings or the supervising parole…
§ 3053.4 In the case of any person who is released from prison on parole or after serving a term of imprisonment for any felony offense committed against the person or…
§ 3053.5 Upon granting parole to any prisoner convicted of any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290, the Board of Parole Hearings shall inquire into the question…
§ 3053.6 (a) Where a person committed to prison for a sex crime for which registration is required pursuant to Section 290 is to be released on parole, the department,…
§ 3053.8 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, when a person is released on parole after having served a term of imprisonment for any of the offenses specified in…
§ 3053.9 If an inmate has a prior conviction for a sexually violent offense, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 6600 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the…
§ 3054 (a) (1) The Department of Corrections shall establish three pilot programs that provide intensive training and counseling programs for female parolees to…
§ 3055 (a) The Elderly Parole Program is hereby established, to be administered by the Board of Parole Hearings, for purposes of reviewing the parole suitability of…
§ 3056 (a) Prisoners on parole shall remain under the supervision of the department but shall not be returned to prison except as provided in subdivision (b) or as…
§ 3057 (a) Confinement pursuant to a revocation of parole in the absence of a new conviction and commitment to prison under other provisions of law, shall not exceed…
§ 3058 Any person who knowingly and wilfully communicates to another, either orally or in writing, any statement concerning any person then or theretofore convicted…
§ 3058.4 (a) All parole officers shall report to the appropriate child protective agency if a person paroled following a conviction of Section 273a, 273ab, or 273d, or…
§ 3058.5 The Department of Corrections shall provide within 10 days, upon request, to the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county, information available to…
§ 3058.6 (a) Whenever any person confined to state prison is serving a term for the conviction of a violent felony listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, the…
§ 3058.61 Whenever any person confined to state prison is serving a term for a conviction of Section 646.9, the Department of Corrections shall notify by mail, at least…
§ 3058.65 (a) (1) Whenever any person confined in the state prison is serving a term for the conviction of child abuse, pursuant to Section 273a, 273ab, 273d, any sex…
§ 3058.7 (a) Whenever any sheriff or chief of police is notified of the pending release of a convicted violent felon pursuant to Section 3058.6, that sheriff or chief…
§ 3058.8 (a) At the time a notification is sent pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 3058.6, the Board of Parole Hearings or the Department of Corrections and…
§ 3058.9 (a) Whenever any person confined to state prison is serving a term for the conviction of child abuse pursuant to Section 273a, 273ab, 273d, or any sex offense…
§ 3059 If any paroled prisoner shall leave the state without permission of his or her supervising parole agency, he or she shall be held as an escaped prisoner and…
§ 3060.1 Upon the revocation of the parole of any prisoner who was ordered by the court to pay an additional restitution fine pursuant to Section 1202.45, but which was…
§ 3060.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parole authority shall revoke the parole of any prisoner who refuses to sign any form required by the…
§ 3060.6 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or after January 1, 2001, whenever any paroled person is returned to custody or has his or her parole revoked…
§ 3060.7 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the supervising parole agency shall notify any person released on parole or postrelease community supervision pursuant…
§ 3060.9 (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hereby authorized to expand the use of parole programs or services to improve the rehabilitation of…
§ 3062 The Governor of the state shall have like power to revoke the parole of any prisoner. The written authority of the Governor shall likewise be sufficient to…
§ 3063 No parole shall be suspended or revoked without cause, which cause must be stated in the order suspending or revoking the parole.
§ 3063.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in subdivision (d), parole shall not be suspended or revoked for commission of a…
§ 3063.2 In a case where a parolee had been ordered to undergo drug treatment as a condition of parole pursuant to Section 3063.1, any drug testing of the parolee shall…
§ 3063.5 In parole revocation or revocation extension proceedings, a parolee or his or her attorney shall receive a copy of any police, arrest, and crime reports,…
§ 3063.6 Parole revocation proceedings and parole revocation extension proceedings may be conducted by a panel of one person.
§ 3064 From and after the suspension or revocation of the parole of any prisoner and until his return to custody he is an escapee and fugitive from justice and no…
§ 3065 Except as otherwise provided in Section 1170.2 and Article 1 (commencing with Section 3000) of this chapter, the provisions of this article are to apply to all…
§ 3066 Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code…
§ 3067 (a) Any inmate who is eligible for release on parole pursuant to this chapter or postrelease community supervision pursuant to Title 2.05 (commencing with…
§ 3068 (a) The Department of Corrections shall operate the Preventing Parolee Crime Program with various components, including, at a minimum, residential and…
§ 3069 (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hereby authorized to create the Parole Violation Intermediate Sanctions (PVIS) program. The purpose of…
§ 3069.5 (a) The department, in consultation with the Legislative Analyst’s Office, shall, contingent upon funding, conduct an evaluation of the PVIS program. (b) A…
§ 3070 The Department of Corrections shall develop and report, utilizing existing resources, to the Legislature by December 31, 2000, a plan that would ensure by…
§ 3071 The Department of Corrections shall implement, by January 1, 2002, a course of instruction for the training of parole officers in California in the management…
§ 3072 (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, subject to the legislative appropriation of the necessary funds, may establish and operate, after January…
§ 3073 The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hereby authorized to obtain day treatment, and to contract for crisis care services, for parolees with…
§ 3073.1 Counties are hereby authorized to contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in order to obtain correctional clinical services for inmates…