California Penal Code ARTICLE 1 - Employment of Prisoners Generally

• Section 2700.
  The Department of Corrections shall require of every able-bodied prisoner imprisoned in any state prison as many hours of faithful labor in each day and...
• Section 2700.1.
  Section 2700 applies to inmates sentenced to death, except as otherwise provided in this section.Every person found guilty of murder, sentenced to death, and held...
• Section 2701.
  (a) The Department of Corrections is hereby authorized and empowered to cause the prisoners in the state prisons of this state to be employed in the...
• Section 2702.
  No person imprisoned after conviction of a violation of Section 502 or of subdivision (b) of Section 502.7 shall be permitted to work on or...
• Section 2706.
  All prisoners shall be employed under supervision of the wardens respectively, and such skilled foremen as they may deem necessary in the performance of work...
• Section 2707.
  The director is further authorized and empowered to purchase, install, and equip, such machinery, tools, supplies, materials, and equipment as may be necessary to carry...
• Section 2708.
  No inmate of any State prison shall be employed in the manufacture or production, of any article, intended for the private and personal use of...
• Section 2713.
  Whenever an inmate is paid for his labor, performed under the supervision of the Department of Corrections or any other public agency, and is discharged,...
• Section 2713.1.
  In addition to any other payment to which he is entitled by law, each prisoner upon his release shall be paid the sum of two...
• Section 2713.2.
  The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall examine and report to the Legislature on whether the provisions of existing law related to payments to inmates...
• Section 2715.
  Land belonging to the State of California may, with the approval of the Department of Finance, be transferred to the jurisdiction of the director for...
• Section 2716.
  (a) The Director of Corrections may enter into agreements with other state agencies for the use of inmates confined in the state prisons to perform work...
• Section 2717.
  The Department of Corrections shall require prisoners who are working outside the prison grounds in road cleanup crews pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018