California Penal Code CHAPTER 9.2 - Restitution Centers

• Section 6220.
  The Director of Corrections may establish and operate facilities to be known as restitution centers.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1520, Sec. 1.)
• Section 6221.
  The purpose of restitution centers is to provide a means for those sentenced to prison to be able to pay their victims’ financial restitution, which...
• Section 6222.
  The location for a restitution center or centers shall be determined by the Director of Corrections with approval from the county board of supervisors or...
• Section 6223.
  Restitution centers shall be located in areas which will maximize the employment opportunities of persons sentenced to the centers.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1520, Sec.
• Section 6224.
  The supervision, management, and control of the restitution centers and the responsibility for the care, custody, discipline, and employment of persons confined therein are vested...
• Section 6224.5.
  The Director of Corrections may commingle inmates who have been assigned to a restitution center pursuant to Section 6227 with inmates who are in transit...
• Section 6225.
  Supervision of inmates in the restitution centers may be by contract with private nonprofit or profit corporations, or by peace officer personnel of the Department...
• Section 6226.
  The Director of Corrections in establishing a restitution center shall enter into an agreement with the county, city, or city and county in which the...
• Section 6227.
  The court may order the Department of Corrections to place an eligible defendant in a restitution center if the court makes a restitution order, or...
• Section 6227.5.
  The Judicial Council shall provide information to sentencing courts to ensure that the judges responsible for sentencing are aware of the existence of the restitution...
• Section 6228.
  A defendant is eligible for placement in a restitution center if the defendant does not have a criminal history of a conviction for the sale...
• Section 6229.
  In each county, city, or city and county, in which a restitution center is established, there shall be a restitution center community advisory board to...
• Section 6230.
  (a) Offenders shall perform all the labor necessary to maintain the restitution center and meet the offenders’ needs unless the director finds that a particular task...
• Section 6231.
  (a) Wages earned by an offender, less any deductions for taxes, shall be paid directly to the Department of Corrections.(b) Wage moneys received by the department shall...
• Section 6233.
  (a) An offender shall not leave a restitution center except to go to work or when specifically authorized and shall return to the restitution center immediately...
• Section 6234.
  (a) The offender shall not be allowed to take employment if the rate of pay or other conditions of employment are less than those paid or...
• Section 6235.
  The Department of Corrections shall, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• Section 6236.
  This chapter shall be known as “Restitution Centers.”(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 854, Sec. 56. Effective January 1, 2002.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018