California Penal Code ARTICLE 1 - Escapes

  • Section 4530.
    (a) Every prisoner confined in a state prison who, by force or violence, escapes or attempts to escape therefrom and every prisoner committed to a state...
  • Section 4530.5.
    For the purposes of punishing escapes or attempts to escape under Section 4530, a person is deemed confined in a “state prison” if he is...
  • Section 4532.
    (a) (1) Every prisoner arrested and booked for, charged with, or convicted of a misdemeanor, and every person committed under the terms of Section 5654, 5656, or...
  • Section 4533.
    Every keeper of a prison, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or jailer, or person employed as a guard, who fraudulently contrives, procures, aids, connives at, or voluntarily...
  • Section 4534.
    Any person who willfully assists any paroled prisoner whose parole has been revoked, any escapee, any prisoner confined in any prison or jail, or any...
  • Section 4535.
    Every person who carries or sends into a prison or jail anything useful to aid a prisoner or inmate in making his escape, with intent...
  • Section 4536.
    (a) Every person committed to a state hospital or other public or private mental health facility as a mentally disordered sex offender, who escapes from or...
  • Section 4536.5.
    The medical director or person in charge of a state hospital or other public or private mental health facility to which a person has been...
  • Section 4537.
    (a) The person in charge of any secure detention facility, including, but not limited to, a prison, a juvenile hall, a county jail, or any institution...

Last modified: October 22, 2018