California Penal Code ARTICLE 1 - Mistreatment of Prisoners

• Section 2650.
  The person of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison or to imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 is under the...
• Section 2651.
  No punishment, except as may be authorized by the Director of Corrections, shall be inflicted and then only by the order and under the direction...
• Section 2652.
  It shall be unlawful to use in the prisons, any cruel, corporal or unusual punishment or to inflict any treatment or allow any lack of...
• Section 2652.5.
  No person employed by the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, or any city or county jail facility shall place any chain...
• Section 2653.
  (a) If a physician employed by the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority certifies in writing that a particular medical treatment is...
• Section 2656.
  (a) A person sentenced to incarceration or who is being held pursuant to a pending criminal matter in a county or city jail, or other county...
• Section 2657.
  (a) No person confined in a state prison, as defined in Section 4504, shall be subject to any institutional disciplinary action subsequent to an acquittal in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018