California Penal Code CHAPTER 1 - County Jails

• Section 4000.
  The common jails in the several counties of this state are kept by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are respectively situated, and...
• Section 4000.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sheriff of any county may transfer prisoners committed to any jail of the county to any industrial road...
• Section 4001.
  Each county jail must contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either one of the following classes to be confined...
• Section 4001.1.
  (a) No law enforcement or correctional official shall give, offer, or promise to give any monetary payment in excess of fifty dollars ($50) in return for...
• Section 4002.
  (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial, persons convicted and under sentence, and persons committed upon civil process, shall not be kept or...
• Section 4003.
  Whenever any weapon or other personal property is taken from an arrested person, it shall be the duty of the desk clerk or other proper...
• Section 4004.
  A prisoner committed to the county jail for examination, or upon conviction for a public offense, must be actually confined in the jail until legally...
• Section 4004.5.
  (a) A city may furnish facilities to be used for holding prisoners held for examination or during trial without cost to the county or upon such...
• Section 4005.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the sheriff shall receive, and keep in the county jail, any prisoner committed thereto by process or order issued...
• Section 4006.
  A sheriff, to whose custody a prisoner is committed as provided in the last section, is answerable for his safekeeping in the courts of the...
• Section 4006.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county board of supervisors or city council may enter into a contract with the federal government, or any...
• Section 4007.
  When there is no jail in the county, or when the jail becomes unfit or unsafe for the confinement of prisoners, the judge of the...
• Section 4008.
  A copy of the appointment, certified by the clerk of the court, must be served on the sheriff or keeper of the jail designated, who...
• Section 4009.
  When a jail is erected in a county for the use of which the designation was made, or its jail is rendered fit and safe...
• Section 4010.
  The clerk of the court must immediately serve a copy of the revocation upon the sheriff of the county, who must thereupon remove the prisoners...
• Section 4011.
  (a) When it is made to appear to any judge by affidavit of the sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities or district...
• Section 4011.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 29602 of the Government Code and any other provisions of this chapter, a county, city or the Department of the Youth Authority is...
• Section 4011.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4011.1, a sheriff, chief or director of corrections, or chief of police is authorized to charge a fee in the amount of three...
• Section 4011.5.
  (a) If a sheriff or jailer determines that a prisoner in a county jail or a city jail under his or her charge is in need...
• Section 4011.6.
  In any case in which it appears to the person in charge of a county jail, city jail, or juvenile detention facility, or to any...
• Section 4011.7.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.5, when it appears that the prisoner in need of medical or surgical treatment necessitating hospitalization or in...
• Section 4011.8.
  A person in custody who has been charged with or convicted of a criminal offense may make voluntary application for inpatient or outpatient mental health...
• Section 4011.9.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4011 and 4011.5, when it appears that the prisoner in need of medical or surgical treatment necessitating hospitalization or in...
• Section 4011.10.a.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to provide county sheriffs, chiefs of police, and directors or administrators of local detention...
• Section 4011.11.
  (a) (1) The board of supervisors in each county, in consultation with the county sheriff, may designate an entity or entities to assist county jail inmates with...
• Section 4012.
  When a pestilence or contagious disease breaks out in or near a jail, and the physician thereof certifies that it is liable to endanger the...
• Section 4013.
  (a) A sheriff or jailer upon whom a paper in a judicial proceeding, directed to a prisoner in his or her custody, is served, shall forthwith...
• Section 4014.
  The sheriff, when necessary, may, with the assent in writing of the county judge, or in a city, of the mayor thereof, employ a temporary...
• Section 4015.
  (a) The sheriff shall receive all persons committed to jail by competent authority. The board of supervisors shall provide the sheriff with necessary food, clothing, and...
• Section 4016.
  Whenever a person is committed upon process in a civil action or proceeding, except when the people of this State are a party thereto, the...
• Section 4016.5.
  A city or county shall be reimbursed by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for costs incurred resulting from the detention of a state prisoner...
• Section 4017.
  All persons confined in the county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail under a final judgment of imprisonment rendered in a criminal action...
• Section 4017.1.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any person confined in a county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail who is required or permitted...
• Section 4017.5.
  In any case in which a person is confined to a city or county jail for a definite period of time for contempt pursuant to...
• Section 4018.
  The board of supervisors making such order may prescribe and enforce the rules and regulations under which such labor is to be performed; and provide...
• Section 4018.1.
  Subject to the availability of adequate state funding for these purposes, the sheriff of each county shall provide inmates who have been sentenced for drug-related...
• Section 4018.5.
  The sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities may, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, provide for the vocational...
• Section 4018.6.
  The sheriff of the county may authorize the temporary removal under custody or temporary release without custody of any inmate of the county jail, honor...
• Section 4019.
  (a) The provisions of this section shall apply in all of the following cases:(1) When a prisoner is confined in or committed to a county jail, industrial...
• Section 4019.a.
  (a) The provisions of this section shall apply in all of the following cases:(1) When a prisoner is confined in or committed to a county jail, industrial...
• Section 4019.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the sheriff or county director of corrections may, at his or her discretion, award additional time credits to any inmate sentenced...
• Section 4019.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, any inmate sentenced to county jail assigned to a conservation camp by a sheriff and who is eligible to earn one...
• Section 4019.3.
  The board of supervisors may provide that each prisoner confined in or committed to a county jail shall be credited with a sum not to...
• Section 4019.4.
  (a) (1) In addition to credit awarded pursuant to Section 4019, a sheriff or county director of corrections may also award an inmate program credit reductions from...
• Section 4019.5.
  (a) “Kangaroo court” as used in this section means a mock court conducted by any prisoner or group of prisoners for the purpose of inflicting punishment...
• Section 4020.
  Whenever the board of health of any city or county, or the board of supervisors of any county, or the county physician of any county...
• Section 4020.4.
  In every county having a population of more than 275,000, there shall be a female deputy sheriff in charge of female prisoners.The sheriff of the...
• Section 4020.7.
  The duties and powers of the female deputy sheriff or other suitable woman assigned to jail duty shall be as follows:(a) She shall have free access...
• Section 4020.8.
  No officer, deputy, jailer, keeper, guard, or person having charge or control of any such county jail shall refuse the duly appointed and qualified female...
• Section 4021.
  (a) Whenever any female prisoner or prisoners are confined in any local detention facility in the state there shall be an appropriately trained female custodial person...
• Section 4022.
  Whenever by the terms of this code, or of any other law of the state, it is provided that a prisoner shall be confined in...
• Section 4023.
  Whenever the daily average of more than 100 persons are confined in any county or city jail there shall be available at all times a...
• Section 4023.5.
  (a) Any female confined in any local detention facility shall upon her request be allowed to continued to use materials necessary for (1) personal hygiene with regard...
• Section 4023.6.
  Any female prisoner in any local detention facility shall have the right to summon and receive the services of any physician and surgeon of her...
• Section 4024.
  (a) The sheriff may discharge any prisoner from the county jail at such time on the last day such prisoner may be confined as the sheriff...
• Section 4024.1.
  (a) The sheriff, chief of police, or any other person responsible for a county or city jail may apply to the presiding judge of the superior...
• Section 4024.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of any county may authorize the sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities to...
• Section 4024.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of any county in which the average daily inmate population is 90 percent of the county’s correctional...
• Section 4024.4.
  (a) The board of supervisors of each county, with the concurrence of the county sheriff before implementation, and the city council of each city, with the...
• Section 4025.
  (a) The sheriff of each county may establish, maintain and operate a store in connection with the county jail and for this purpose may purchase confectionery,...
• Section 4025.5.
  (a) There is hereby created a program in the Counties of Alameda, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Napa, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Diego, San...
• Section 4026.
  The sheriff or other officer in charge of a county or city jail may provide for the manufacture of small articles of handiwork by prisoners...
• Section 4027.
  It is the intention of the Legislature that all prisoners confined in local detention facilities shall be afforded reasonable opportunities to exercise religious freedom.As used...
• Section 4028.
  No condition or restriction upon the obtaining of an abortion by a female detained in any local detention facility, pursuant to the Therapeutic Abortion Act...
• Section 4029.
  (a) Whenever within any county adult detention facility or part of any county detention facility used for the confinement of adults, not including any city jail,...
• Section 4030.
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that law enforcement policies and practices for conducting strip or body cavity searches of detained persons vary widely throughout California....
• Section 4031.
  (a) This section applies to all minors detained in a juvenile detention center on the grounds that he or she is a person described in Section...
• Section 4032.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “In-person visit” means an on-site visit that may include barriers. In-person visits include interactions in which...

Last modified: October 22, 2018