CHAPTER 1. County Jails

Heading of Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1957, Ch. 50.

§§ 4000–4033 · 75 sections

§ 4000 The common jails in the several counties of this state are kept by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are respectively situated, and are used as…
§ 4000.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sheriff of any county may transfer prisoners committed to any jail of the county to any industrial road camp…
§ 4001 Each county jail must contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either one of the following classes to be confined separately and…
§ 4001.1 (a) No law enforcement or correctional official shall give, offer, or promise to give any monetary payment in excess of fifty dollars ($50) in return for an…
§ 4001.2 (a) Each county jail shall, upon detention of a person, ask if the person has served in the United States military and document the person’s response. (b) The…
§ 4002 (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial, persons convicted and under sentence, and persons committed upon civil process, shall not be…
§ 4002.5 (a) On or before January 1, 2020, the sheriff of each county or the administrator of each county jail shall develop and implement an infant and toddler breast…
§ 4003 Whenever any weapon or other personal property is taken from an arrested person, it shall be the duty of the desk clerk or other proper officer of any city,…
§ 4004 A prisoner committed to the county jail for examination, or upon conviction for a public offense, must be actually confined in the jail until legally…
§ 4004.5 (a) A city may furnish facilities to be used for holding prisoners held for examination or during trial without cost to the county or upon such terms as may be…
§ 4005 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the sheriff shall receive, and keep in the county jail, any prisoner committed thereto by process or order issued…
§ 4006 A sheriff, to whose custody a prisoner is committed as provided in the last section, is answerable for his safekeeping in the courts of the United States,…
§ 4006.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county board of supervisors or city council may enter into a contract with the federal government, or any…
§ 4007 When there is no jail in the county, or when the jail becomes unfit or unsafe for the confinement of prisoners, the judge of the superior court may, by a…
§ 4008 A copy of the appointment, certified by the clerk of the court, must be served on the sheriff or keeper of the jail designated, who must receive into the jail…
§ 4009 When a jail is erected in a county for the use of which the designation was made, or its jail is rendered fit and safe for the confinement of prisoners, the…
§ 4010 The clerk of the court must immediately serve a copy of the revocation upon the sheriff of the county, who must thereupon remove the prisoners to the jail of…
§ 4011 (a) When it is made to appear to any judge by affidavit of the sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities or district attorney and…
§ 4011.1 (a) Notwithstanding Section 29602 of the Government Code and any other provisions of this chapter, a county, city or the Department of the Youth Authority is…
§ 4011.2 A sheriff, chief or director of corrections, or chief of police shall not charge a fee for an inmate-initiated medical visit of an inmate confined in a county…
§ 4011.3 (a) Notwithstanding Section 4011.1, a sheriff, chief or director of corrections, or chief of police shall not charge a fee for durable medical equipment or…
§ 4011.5 (a) If a sheriff or jailer determines that a prisoner in a county jail or a city jail under his or her charge is in need of immediate medical or hospital care,…
§ 4011.6 (a) (1) If it appears to the person in charge of a county jail, city jail, or juvenile detention facility, or to any judge of a court in the county in which…
§ 4011.7 Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.5, when it appears that the prisoner in need of medical or surgical treatment necessitating…
§ 4011.8 A person in custody who has been charged with or convicted of a criminal offense may make voluntary application for inpatient or outpatient mental health…
§ 4011.9 Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.5, when it appears that the prisoner in need of medical or surgical treatment necessitating…
§ 4011.10 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to provide county sheriffs, chiefs of police, and directors or administrators of local…
§ 4011.11 (a) (1) Through December 31, 2022, the board of supervisors in each county, in consultation with the county sheriff, may designate an entity or entities to…
§ 4012 When a pestilence or contagious disease breaks out in or near a jail, and the physician thereof certifies that it is liable to endanger the health of the…
§ 4013 (a) A warden, sheriff, or jailer upon whom a paper in a judicial proceeding, directed to an incarcerated person in the custody of the warden, sheriff, or…
§ 4014 The sheriff, when necessary, may, with the assent in writing of the county judge, or in a city, of the mayor thereof, employ a temporary guard for the…
§ 4015 (a) The sheriff shall receive all persons committed to jail by competent authority. The board of supervisors shall provide the sheriff with necessary food,…
§ 4016 Whenever a person is committed upon process in a civil action or proceeding, except when the people of this State are a party thereto, the sheriff is not bound…
§ 4016.5 A city or county shall be reimbursed by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for costs incurred resulting from the detention of a state prisoner or…
§ 4017 All persons confined in the county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail under a final judgment of imprisonment rendered in a criminal action or…
§ 4017.1 (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any person confined in a county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail who is required or permitted by an…
§ 4017.5 In any case in which a person is confined to a city or county jail for a definite period of time for contempt pursuant to an action or proceeding other than a…
§ 4018 The board of supervisors making such order may prescribe and enforce the rules and regulations under which such labor is to be performed; and provide clothing…
§ 4018.1 Subject to the availability of adequate state funding for these purposes, the sheriff of each county shall provide inmates who have been sentenced for…
§ 4018.5 The sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities may, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, provide for the vocational…
§ 4018.6 The sheriff of the county may authorize the temporary removal under custody or temporary release without custody of any inmate of the county jail, honor farm,…
§ 4019 (a) This section applies in all of the following cases: (1) When a prisoner is confined in or committed to a county jail, industrial farm, or road camp or a…
§ 4019.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the sheriff or county director of corrections may, at his or her discretion, award additional time credits to any inmate…
§ 4019.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any inmate sentenced to county jail assigned to a conservation camp by a sheriff and who is eligible to earn one day of…
§ 4019.3 The board of supervisors may credit each prisoner with a sum of money to be determined by the board if the prisoner is confined in or committed to a county…
§ 4019.4 (a) (1) In addition to credit awarded pursuant to Section 4019, a sheriff or county director of corrections may also award an inmate program credit reductions…
§ 4019.5 (a) “Kangaroo court” as used in this section means a mock court conducted by any prisoner or group of prisoners for the purpose of inflicting punishment upon…
§ 4020 Whenever the board of health of any city or county, or the board of supervisors of any county, or the county physician of any county of this State, presents,…
§ 4020.4 In every county having a population of more than 275,000, there shall be a female deputy sheriff in charge of female prisoners. The sheriff of the county shall…
§ 4020.7 The duties and powers of the female deputy sheriff or other suitable woman assigned to jail duty shall be as follows: (a) She shall have free access at all…
§ 4020.8 No officer, deputy, jailer, keeper, guard, or person having charge or control of any such county jail shall refuse the duly appointed and qualified female…
§ 4021 (a) Whenever any female prisoner or prisoners are confined in any local detention facility in the state there shall be an appropriately trained female…
§ 4022 Whenever by the terms of this code, or of any other law of the state, it is provided that a prisoner shall be confined in any county jail, such provision shall…
§ 4023 Whenever the daily average of more than 100 persons are confined in any county or city jail there shall be available at all times a duly licensed and…
§ 4023.5 (a) A person confined in a local detention facility shall be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for personal hygiene with regard to their menstrual…
§ 4023.6 (a) Any incarcerated person in any local detention facility shall have the right to summon and receive the services of any physician, nurse practitioner,…
§ 4023.8 (a) A person incarcerated in a county jail who is identified as possibly pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant during an intake health examination or at any…
§ 4024 (a) The sheriff may discharge any prisoner from the county jail at such time on the last day such prisoner may be confined as the sheriff shall consider to be…
§ 4024.1 (a) The sheriff, chief of police, or any other person responsible for a county or city jail may apply to the presiding judge of the superior court to receive…
§ 4024.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of any county may authorize the sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional…
§ 4024.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of any county in which the average daily inmate population is 90 percent of the county’s…
§ 4024.4 (a) The board of supervisors of each county, with the concurrence of the county sheriff before implementation, and the city council of each city, with the…
§ 4024.5 (a) The rights established in this section apply to any person being released from a county jail, including, but not limited to, a person who has completed a…
§ 4025 (a) The sheriff of each county may establish, maintain and operate a store in connection with the county jail and for this purpose may purchase confectionery,…
§ 4025.5 (a) There is hereby created a program in the Counties of Alameda, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Napa, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Diego,…
§ 4026 The sheriff or other officer in charge of a county or city jail may provide for the manufacture of small articles of handiwork by prisoners out of raw…
§ 4027 (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that all prisoners confined in local detention facilities shall be afforded reasonable opportunities to exercise…
§ 4027.5 (a) On or before January 1, 2025, the sheriff of each county or the administrator of each local detention facility shall develop and implement a religious…
§ 4028 (a) A condition or restriction shall not be imposed upon the obtaining of an abortion by a person detained in any local detention facility, pursuant to…
§ 4029 (a) Whenever within any county adult detention facility or part of any county detention facility used for the confinement of adults, not including any city…
§ 4030 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that law enforcement policies and practices for conducting strip or body cavity searches of detained persons vary…
§ 4031 (a) This section applies to all minors detained in a juvenile detention center on the grounds that he or she is a person described in Section 300, 601, or 602…
§ 4032 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “In-person visit” means an on-site visit that may include barriers. In-person…
§ 4032.5 (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Wakiesha’s Law. (b) If an incarcerated person has died, the county or city jail shall notify all people…
§ 4033 (a) (1) The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the Department of Motor Vehicles may implement a pilot program to provide an identification card for…