California Penal Code CHAPTER 2 - The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

• Section 5050.
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Director of Corrections in this or any other code refers to the Secretary of the Department of...
• Section 5051.2.
  The Director of Corrections shall have wide and successful administrative experience in adult or youth correctional programs embodying rehabilitative concepts.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1458.)
• Section 5052.
  Any officer or employee of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation designated in writing by the secretary, shall have the power of a head of...
• Section 5054.
  Commencing July 1, 2005, the supervision, management and control of the state prisons, and the responsibility for the care, custody, treatment, training, discipline and employment...
• Section 5054.1.
  The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has full power to order returned to custody any person under the secretary’s jurisdiction. The written...
• Section 5054.2.
  Whenever a person is incarcerated in a state prison for violating Section 261, 264.1, 266c, 285, 286, 288, 288a, 288.5, or 289, and the victim...
• Section 5055.
  Commencing July 1, 2005, all powers and duties previously granted to and imposed upon the Department of Corrections shall be exercised by the Secretary of...
• Section 5055.5.
  (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall develop a Data Dashboard as described in subdivisions (b) and (c) for each institution on...
• Section 5056.
  (a) Each state prison under the jurisdiction of the department shall have a citizens’ advisory committee except that one committee may serve every prison located in...
• Section 5056.1.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that due to the local conditions resulting in the Chino Valley Independent Fire District having within its area of service...
• Section 5057.
  (a) Subject to the powers of the Department of Finance under Section 13300 of the Government Code, the secretary shall establish an accounting and auditing system...
• Section 5057.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11005 of the Government Code, the Director of Corrections may accept a gift or donation of goods or services to the state following...
• Section 5058.
  (a) The director may prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of the prisons and for the administration of the parole of persons sentenced...
• Section 5058.1.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, “pilot program” means a program implemented on a temporary and limited basis in order to test and evaluate the...
• Section 5058.2.
  (a) Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code does not apply to a department...
• Section 5058.3.
  (a) Emergency adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation by the director shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1...
• Section 5058.4.
  (a) The director shall provide for the development and implementation of a disciplinary matrix with offenses and associated punishments applicable to all department employees, in order...
• Section 5058.5.
  In addition to the services rendered by physicians and surgeons, including psychiatrists, or by psychologists, pursuant to Sections 5068 and 5079, physicians and surgeons, including...
• Section 5058.6.
  The Director of the Department of Corrections shall have the authority of a head of a department set forth in subdivision (e) of Section 11181...
• Section 5059.
  This title shall not affect the powers or jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation as to road camps pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section...
• Section 5060.
  The Director of Corrections may assist persons discharged, paroled, or otherwise released from confinement in an institution of the department and may secure employment for...
• Section 5061.
  Whenever any person confined in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections dies, and no demand or claim is made...
• Section 5062.
  Whenever any person confined in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections escapes, or is discharged or paroled from that...
• Section 5063.
  Before any money or other personal property or documents are delivered to the State Treasurer, State Controller, or public administrator, or sold at auction or...
• Section 5064.
  At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the Treasurer or Controller under Section 5061 or of Article 1 (commencing with...
• Section 5065.
  When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Section 5061 or 5062, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the...
• Section 5065.5.
  (a) A person or entity that enters into a contract with a criminal offender for the sale of the story of a crime for which the...
• Section 5066.
  The Director of Corrections shall expand the existing prison ombudsman program to ensure the comprehensive deployment of ombudsmen throughout the state prison system with specific...
• Section 5068.
  The Director of Corrections shall cause each person who is newly committed to a state prison to be examined and studied. This includes the investigation...
• Section 5068.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), any person employed or under contract to provide diagnostic, treatment, or other mental...
• Section 5069.
  (a) The administrative director of the Division of Industrial Accidents shall formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of injured inmates of state penal or...
• Section 5070.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sex of a prison inmate shall not prevent the Director of Corrections from assigning any prison inmate to...
• Section 5071.
  (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall not assign any prison inmate to employment that provides that inmate with access to personal...
• Section 5072.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the State Department of Health Care Services may develop a process to...

Last modified: October 22, 2018