California Penal Code ARTICLE 3.5 - County Boards of Parole Commissioners

  • Section 3074.
    The Legislature finds and declares that the period immediately following incarceration is critical to successful reintegration of the offender into society and to positive citizenship....
  • Section 3075.
    (a) There is in each county a board of parole commissioners, consisting of each of the following:(1) The sheriff, or his or her designee, or, in a...
  • Section 3076.
    (a) The board may make, establish and enforce rules and regulations adopted under this article.(b) The board shall act at regularly called meetings at which two-thirds of...
  • Section 3077.
    Whenever a prisoner is sentenced in one county and incarcerated in another county, only the county in which he was sentenced shall have jurisdiction to...
  • Section 3078.
    (a) The board shall notify the sentencing judge of an inmate’s application for parole.(b) The sentencing judge may make a recommendation regarding such application, and the board...
  • Section 3079.
    (a) No application for parole shall be granted or denied except by a vote of the board at a meeting at which a quorum of its...
  • Section 3080.
    If any paroled prisoner leaves the county in which he is imprisoned without permission from the board granting his parole, he shall be arrested as...
  • Section 3081.
    (a) Each county board may retake and imprison any prisoner upon parole granted under the provisions of this article.(b) Each county board may release any prisoner on...
  • Section 3082.
    Each county board may make and establish written rules and regulations for the unconditional release of and may unconditionally release any prisoner who is an...
  • Section 3083.
    Whenever the board designates deputies to serve as temporary commissioners in considering applications for parole of prisoners, such temporary commissioners or deputies may also exercise...
  • Section 3084.
    Each county board may release to the State Department of Corrections for return to a state prison or correctional institution any county or city jail...
  • Section 3085.
    The members of the board may for the purpose of considering applications for parole of prisoners from city or county jails, or industrial farms, or...
  • Section 3086.
    Each county board shall not require, when setting terms or discharge dates, an admission of guilt to any crime for which an inmate was committed.(Added...
  • Section 3087.
    No prisoner shall be paroled without supervision.(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 117.)
  • Section 3088.
    A prisoner who is released on parole pursuant to this article shall be supervised by a county parole officer of the county board of parole...
  • Section 3089.
    (a) A county parole officer who is not a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018