California Penal Code ARTICLE 3 - Paroles

• Section 3040.
  The Board of Prison Terms shall have the power to allow prisoners imprisoned in the state prisons pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1168 to...
• Section 3041.
  (a) (1) In the case of any inmate sentenced pursuant to any law, other than Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 1170) of Title 7 of Part 2,...
• Section 3041.1.
  (a) Any time before an inmate’s release, the Governor may request review of a decision by a parole authority concerning the grant or denial of parole...
• Section 3041.2.
  (a) During the 30 days following the granting, denial, revocation, or suspension by the board of the parole of an inmate sentenced to an indeterminate prison...
• Section 3041.5.
  (a) At all hearings for the purpose of reviewing an inmate’s parole suitability, or the setting, postponing, or rescinding of parole, with the exception of en...
• Section 3041.7.
  At any hearing for the purpose of setting, postponing, or rescinding a parole release date of an inmate under a life sentence, the inmate shall...
• Section 3042.
  (a) (1) At least 30 days before the Board of Parole Hearings meets to review or consider the parole suitability of any inmate sentenced to a life...
• Section 3043.
  (a) (1) Upon request to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and verification of the identity of the requester, notice of any hearing to review or consider...
• Section 3043.1.
  Notwithstanding any other law, a victim, his or her next of kin, or any immediate family member of the victim who appears at any hearing...
• Section 3043.2.
  (a) (1) In lieu of personal appearance at any hearing to review the parole suitability, the Board of Parole Hearings shall permit the victim, his or her...
• Section 3043.25.
  Any victim, next of kin, members of the victim’s immediate family, or representatives designated for a particular hearing by the victim or next of kin...
• Section 3043.3.
  As used in Sections 3043, 3043.1, 3043.2, and 3043.25, the term “immediate family” shall include the victim’s spouse, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, and children or...
• Section 3043.5.
  (a) This section shall be known as the “Condit-Nolan Public Participation in Parole Act of 1984.”(b) Any person interested in the grant or denial of parole to...
• Section 3043.6.
  Any person authorized to appear at a parole hearing pursuant to Section 3043, or a prosecutor authorized to represent the views of the victim, his...
• Section 3044.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Board of Parole Hearings or its successor in interest shall be the state’s parole authority and shall be responsible for...
• Section 3045.
  Any sentence based on conviction of crime of which the person was previously pardoned on the express ground that he was not guilty shall not...
• Section 3046.
  (a) An inmate imprisoned under a life sentence shall not be paroled until he or she has served the greater of the following:(1) A term of at...
• Section 3049.
  In all other cases not heretofore provided for, no prisoner sentenced prior to July 1, 1977 may be paroled until he has served the minimum...
• Section 3049.5.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3049, any prisoner selected for inclusion in a specific research program approved by the Board of Corrections may be paroled...
• Section 3050.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any inmate under the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who is not currently serving and has...
• Section 3051.
  (a) (1) A youth offender parole hearing is a hearing by the Board of Parole Hearings for the purpose of reviewing the parole suitability of any prisoner...
• Section 3051.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 3051, the board shall complete all youth offender parole hearings for individuals who were sentenced to indeterminate life terms and...
• Section 3052.
  The Board of Parole Hearings shall have the power to establish and enforce rules and regulations under which inmates committed to state prisons may be...
• Section 3053.
  (a) The Board of Prison Terms upon granting any parole to any prisoner may also impose on the parole any conditions that it may deem proper.(b) The...
• Section 3053.2.
  (a) Upon the request of the victim, or the victim’s parent or legal guardian if the victim is a minor, the Board of Parole Hearings or...
• Section 3053.4.
  In the case of any person who is released from prison on parole or after serving a term of imprisonment for any felony offense committed...
• Section 3053.5.
  Upon granting parole to any prisoner convicted of any of the offenses enumerated in Section 290, the Board of Prison Terms shall inquire into the...
• Section 3053.6.
  (a) Where a person committed to prison for a sex crime for which registration is required pursuant to Section 290 is to be released on parole,...
• Section 3053.8.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a person is released on parole after having served a term of imprisonment for any of the offenses...
• Section 3054.
  (a) (1) The Department of Corrections shall establish three pilot programs that provide intensive training and counseling programs for female parolees to assist in the successful reintegration...
• Section 3055.
  (a) The Elderly Parole Program is hereby established, to be administered by the Board of Parole Hearing, for purposes of reviewing the parole suitability of any...
• Section 3056.
  (a) Prisoners on parole shall remain under the supervision of the department but shall not be returned to prison except as provided in subdivision (b) or...
• Section 3057.
  (a) Confinement pursuant to a revocation of parole in the absence of a new conviction and commitment to prison under other provisions of law, shall not...
• Section 3058.
  Any person who knowingly and wilfully communicates to another, either orally or in writing, any statement concerning any person then or theretofore convicted of a...
• Section 3058.4.
  (a) All parole officers shall report to the appropriate child protective agency if a person paroled following a conviction of Section 273a, 273ab, or 273d, or...
• Section 3058.5.
  The Department of Corrections shall provide within 10 days, upon request, to the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county,...
• Section 3058.6.
  (a) Whenever any person confined to state prison is serving a term for the conviction of a violent felony listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5,...
• Section 3058.61.
  Whenever any person confined to state prison is serving a term for a conviction of Section 646.9, the Department of Corrections shall notify by mail,...
• Section 3058.65.
  (a) (1) Whenever any person confined in the state prison is serving a term for the conviction of child abuse, pursuant to Section 273a, 273ab, 273d, any...
• Section 3058.7.
  (a) Whenever any sheriff or chief of police is notified of the pending release of a convicted violent felon pursuant to Section 3058.6, that sheriff or...
• Section 3058.8.
  (a) At the time a notification is sent pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 3058.6, the Board of Parole Hearings or the Department of Corrections and...
• Section 3058.9.
  (a) Whenever any person confined to state prison is serving a term for the conviction of child abuse pursuant to Section 273a, 273ab, 273d, or any...
• Section 3059.
  If any paroled prisoner shall leave the state without permission of his or her supervising parole agency, he or she shall be held as an...
• Section 3060.1.
  Upon the revocation of the parole of any prisoner who was ordered by the court to pay an additional restitution fine pursuant to Section 1202.45,...
• Section 3060.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parole authority shall revoke the parole of any prisoner who refuses to sign any form required by the...
• Section 3060.6.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or after January 1, 2001, whenever any paroled person is returned to custody or has his or her...
• Section 3060.7.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the supervising parole agency shall notify any person released on parole or postrelease community supervision pursuant to Title 2.05 (commencing with...
• Section 3060.9.
  (a)  The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hereby authorized to expand the use of parole programs or services to improve the rehabilitation of parolees,...
• Section 3062.
  The Governor of the state shall have like power to revoke the parole of any prisoner. The written authority of the Governor shall likewise be...
• Section 3063.
  No parole shall be suspended or revoked without cause, which cause must be stated in the order suspending or revoking the parole.(Added by Stats. 1941,...
• Section 3063.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in subdivision (d), parole shall not be suspended or revoked for commission of a nonviolent...
• Section 3063.2.
  In a case where a parolee had been ordered to undergo drug treatment as a condition of parole pursuant to Section 3063.1, any drug testing...
• Section 3063.5.
  In parole revocation or revocation extension proceedings, a parolee or his or her attorney shall receive a copy of any police, arrest, and crime reports,...
• Section 3063.6.
  Parole revocation proceedings and parole revocation extension proceedings may be conducted by a panel of one person.(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 695, Sec. 19. Effective...
• Section 3064.
  From and after the suspension or revocation of the parole of any prisoner and until his return to custody he is an escapee and fugitive...
• Section 3065.
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 1170.2 and Article 1 (commencing with Section 3000) of this chapter, the provisions of this article are to apply...
• Section 3066.
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• Section 3067.
  (a) Any inmate who is eligible for release on parole pursuant to this chapter or postrelease community supervision pursuant to Title 2.05 (commencing with Section 3450)...
• Section 3068.
  (a) The Department of Corrections shall operate the Preventing Parolee Crime Program with various components, including, at a minimum, residential and nonresidential multiservice centers, literacy labs,...
• Section 3069.
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hereby authorized to create the Parole Violation Intermediate Sanctions (PVIS) program. The purpose of the program shall be...
• Section 3069.5.
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Legislative Analyst’s Office, shall, contingent upon funding, conduct an evaluation of the PVIS program.(b) A final report shall be due...
• Section 3070.
  The Department of Corrections shall develop and report, utilizing existing resources, to the Legislature by December 31, 2000, a plan that would ensure by January...
• Section 3071.
  The Department of Corrections shall implement, by January 1, 2002, a course of instruction for the training of parole officers in California in the management...
• Section 3072.
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, subject to the legislative appropriation of the necessary funds, may establish and operate, after January 1, 2007, a specialized...
• Section 3073.
  The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hereby authorized to obtain day treatment, and to contract for crisis care services, for parolees with mental health...
• Section 3073.1.
  Counties are hereby authorized to contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in order to obtain correctional clinical services for inmates with mental health...

Last modified: October 22, 2018