California Penal Code CHAPTER 1 - The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

• Section 5000.
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Department of Corrections in this or any other code refers to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,...
• Section 5001.
  The Governor may request the State Personnel Board to use extensive recruitment and merit selection techniques and procedures to provide lists of persons qualified for...
• Section 5002.
  (a) The department shall succeed to and is hereby vested with all of the powers and duties exercised and performed by the following departments, boards, bureaus,...
• Section 5003.
  The department has jurisdiction over the following prisons and institutions:(a) The California State Prison at San Quentin.(b) The California State Prison at Folsom.(c) The California Institution for Men.(d) The...
• Section 5003.2.
  (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or his or her designee, shall provide written notification to any county impacted by the opening,...
• Section 5003.5.
  The Board of Parole Hearings is empowered to advise and recommend to the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on general and specific...
• Section 5004.
  The Director of Corrections and the legislative body of any county or city may enter into agreements for mutual police aid. Pursuant to such agreements...
• Section 5004.5.
  The director shall require each state prison under the department’s jurisdiction to develop a Mutual Aid Escape Pursuit Plan and Agreement with local law enforcement...
• Section 5004.7.
  (a) The department shall establish a statewide policy on operational procedures for the handling of threats made by inmates or wards, and threats made by family...
• Section 5005.
  The department may maintain a canteen at any prison or institution under its jurisdiction for the sale to persons confined therein of toilet articles, candy,...
• Section 5006.
  (a) (1) All moneys now held for the benefit of inmates currently housed in Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities including those known as the Inmate Canteen...
• Section 5006.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision in Section 5006, money in the Inmate Welfare Fund shall not be expended to pay charges for any or all of the...
• Section 5007.
  The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may invest money in the Inmate Welfare Fund that in his or her opinion is not...
• Section 5007.5.
  (a) The Director of Corrections is authorized to charge a fee in the amount of five dollars ($5) for each inmate-initiated medical visit of an inmate...
• Section 5008.
  The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall deposit any funds of inmates in his or her possession in trust with the Treasurer...
• Section 5008.1.
  Subject to the availability of adequate state funding for these purposes, the Director of Corrections shall provide all inmates at each penal institution and prison...
• Section 5008.2.
  (a) During the intake medical examination or intake health screening, or while providing general information during intake, the department shall provide all inmates with information on...
• Section 5009.
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature that all prisoners shall be afforded reasonable opportunities to exercise religious freedom.(b) (1) Except in extraordinary circumstances, upon the transfer...
• Section 5010.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the predominant purpose of exercise in correctional facilities should be for the maintenance of the general health and...
• Section 5011.
  (a) The Department of Corrections shall not require, as a condition for any form of treatment or custody that the department offers, an admission of guilt...
• Section 5021.
  (a) Any death that occurs in any facility operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State Department of State Hospitals, a city, county, or...
• Section 5022.
  (a) Upon the entry of a prisoner into a facility operated by the Department of Corrections, and at least every year thereafter, the Director of Corrections...
• Section 5023.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Corrections operate in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible when purchasing health care...
• Section 5023.2.
  (a) In order to promote the best possible patient outcomes, eliminate unnecessary medical and pharmacy costs, and ensure consistency in the delivery of health care services,...
• Section 5023.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may contract with providers of health care services and health care network providers, including, but...
• Section 5023.6.
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall, by January 1, 2011, do all of the following:(1) Adopt industry standard claim forms for use by contract health...
• Section 5023.7.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, money recovered prior to July 1, 2011, from an overpayment of a medical contract expenditure, under the authority of...
• Section 5024.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that:(1) State costs for purchasing drugs and medical supplies for the health care of offenders in state custody have grown rapidly...
• Section 5024.2.
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is authorized to maintain and operate a comprehensive pharmacy services program for those facilities under the jurisdiction of the...
• Section 5024.5.
  (a) The Department of Corrections shall adopt policies, procedures, and criteria to identify selected medication categories for the development of utilization protocols based on best practices,...
• Section 5025.
  (a) On or before July 1, 1993, the Department of Corrections shall implement and maintain procedures to identify inmates serving terms in state prison who are...
• Section 5025.a.
  (a) Immediately upon the effective date of the amendments to this section made at the 1993–94 First Extraordinary Session of the Legislature, the Department of Corrections...
• Section 5026.
  The Department of Corrections shall cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service by providing the use of prison facilities, transportation, and general support,...
• Section 5027.
  (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall award funding for an innovative grant program to...
• Section 5028.
  (a) Upon the entry of any person who is currently or was previously a foreign national into a facility operated by the Department of Corrections, the...
• Section 5029.
  (a) The Director of Corrections shall ensure that documents, computers, or computer accessible media containing personal information relating to an employee of the Department of Corrections...
• Section 5030.1.
  (a) The possession or use of tobacco products by inmates under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections is prohibited. The Director of Corrections shall adopt...
• Section 5031.
  (a) The department shall submit an estimate of expenditures for each state or contracted facility housing offenders and for the cost of supervising offenders on parole,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018