California Penal Code CHAPTER 10.5 - Prison Visitor Services

• Section 6350.
  The Legislature finds and declares the following:(a) Maintaining an inmate’s family and community relationships is an effective correctional technique which reduces recidivism.(b) Enhancing visitor services increases the...
• Section 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 prison...
• Section 6352.
  Each visitor center shall provide, at a minimum, each of the following services to prison visitors:(a) Assistance to visitors with transportation between public transit terminals and...
• Section 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...
• Section 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) The number...
• Section 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.(Added by...
• Section 6356.
  The department shall cooperate with the Department of Transportation in the development of public transportation services to prisons, pursuant to Section 14035.9 of the Government...

Last modified: October 22, 2018