CHAPTER 10.5. Prison Visitor Services

Heading of Chapter 10.5 renumbered from Chapter 11 (as added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 17) by Stats. 1987, Ch. 56, Sec. 137.

§§ 6350–6356 · 7 sections

• § 6350 The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Maintaining an inmate’s family and community relationships is an effective correctional technique which…
• § 6351 The Department of Corrections shall contract with a private nonprofit agency or agencies to establish and operate a visitor center outside each state adult…
• § 6352 Each visitor center shall provide, at a minimum, each of the following services to prison visitors: (a) Assistance to visitors with transportation between…
• § 6353 Each nonprofit agency which the department contracts with pursuant to Section 6351 shall submit to the department and to the Legislature an annual report which…
• § 6354 The Department of Corrections shall employ all the following criteria in selecting the agency or agencies with which it contracts pursuant to Section 6351: (a)…
• § 6355 Nothing in this chapter is intended to limit the department in developing additional programs or making all reasonable efforts to promote visits to prisoners.
• § 6356 The department shall cooperate with the Department of Transportation in the development of public transportation services to prisons, pursuant to Section…