Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to design, construct, or renovate prison housing units, support buildings, and programming space in order to add approximately 7,000 beds, to design, construct, or renovate prison housing units, support buildings, and programming space in order to add approximately 4,000 beds to existing prison facilities, and to add additional beds for medical treatment and housing, as specified. Existing law authorizes the issuance of bonds for purposes of financing these projects, as specified.
This bill would require the department to conduct site assessments in connection with determining where to construct or renovate housing units pursuant to the projects described above, and to report those assessments to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee as specified. The bill would provide that specified reporting requirements apply separately to each institution or
facility. The bill would require additional reports by the department to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee concerning the budgets, schedules, allocations from funds for the projects, and other items, in connection with the projects described above.
Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prepare and update a master plan concerning construction and renovation of facilities under the department’s jurisdiction for which funds have been appropriated by the Legislature. Existing law generally defines items to be included in the master plan.
This bill would specify additional items to be included in the master plan relative to the construction and renovation projects described above.
Existing law provides state financing for construction siting of county jails,
subject to matching funds from counties, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority to give funding preference for those purposes to counties that assist the state in siting reentry facilities, as specified.
This bill would require the Corrections Standards Authority, to the extent possible, to ensure that funds for the construction of new jail beds be coordinated with the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation’s efforts to site new reentry facilities.
Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and charges it with various duties.
This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, by January 10 of each year, to provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee
operational and fiscal information to be displayed in the Governor’s proposed budget, and other operational and fiscal data, as specified. The bill would declare the intent of the Legislature in that regard.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop and implement, as specified, relapse prevention treatment programs to reduce the recidivism of sex offenders.
This bill would require the department to include a research component to each relapse prevention treatment program contracted for by the department.
Existing law authorizes the Inspector General to conduct a management review audit of any warden in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law also
requires the Inspector General to audit each warden and institution, as specified.
This bill would require the management review audit to include an assessment of the maintenance of the facility managed by the warden. This bill would also include, within the required audit of wardens and facilities, issues relating to personnel, training, investigations, financial matters, and an assessment of the maintenance of the facility managed by the warden, as specified.
Existing law authorizes local jurisdictions to present claims for reimbursement to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for detention costs associated with persons under the jurisdiction of the state, as specified.
This bill would require the local jurisdiction to submit any of those claims to the department within 6 months after
the close of the month in which the costs are incurred. If the claims are not submitted within that time, the bill would prohibit the reimbursement of the claims.
Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 for capital outlay to be allocated to renovate, improve, or expand infrastructure capacity at existing prison facilities. Existing law also authorizes the funds to be used for land acquisition, environmental services, architectural programming, engineering assessments, schematic design, preliminary plans, working drawings, and construction.
This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on the funds appropriated pursuant to existing law. This bill would also subject the projects for which funds are appropriated pursuant to existing law to approval and administrative
oversight by the State Public Works Board, as specified.
Existing law provides, in any case in which a minor who is detained in or committed to a county institution established for the purpose of housing juveniles attains 18 years of age prior to or during the period of detention or confinement, that he or she may be allowed to come or remain in contact with those juveniles until 19 years of age, at which time he or she, upon the recommendation of the probation officer, shall be delivered to the custody of the sheriff for the remainder of the time he or she remains in custody, unless the juvenile court orders continued detention in a juvenile facility.
This bill would provide, if continued detention is ordered for a ward who is 19 years of age or older but under 21 years of age, that he or she may be allowed to come into or remain in contact
with any other person detained in the institution. The bill would require the county to apply to the Corrections Standards Authority for approval of a county institution established for the purpose of housing juveniles as a suitable place for confinement before the institution is used for the detention or commitment of an individual under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court who is 19 years of age or older but under 21 years of age where the detained person will come into or remain in contact with persons under 18 years of age who are detained in the institution.
Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to make specified orders, including an order to commit a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, if a minor is adjudged a ward of the court for violating any law or ordinance defining a crime, except as specified. Under existing law, only those persons convicted of a public offense who are found to be less than
21 years of age at the time of apprehension, are not sentenced to death, life imprisonment, imprisonment for 90 days or less, or the payment of a fine, and are not granted probation, or whose probation has been revoked and terminated, may be committed by the juvenile court to the division.
This bill would, commencing September 1, 2007, restrict the authority of the juvenile court to order the commitment of a ward to the division to those wards who have committed specified offenses. By changing the counties’ responsibilities with respect to juvenile offenses, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would authorize the court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, to recall that commitment in the case of any ward whose commitment offense was not any of the specified offenses referenced above, unless the offense was a specified sex offense,
and who remains confined in an institution operated by the division as of September 1, 2007. The bill would require the court to set and convene a recall disposition hearing for the purpose of ordering an appropriate alternative disposition for the ward.
Existing law prohibits the commitment of a ward of the juvenile court to the division who is under 11 years of age, or who is suffering from any contagious, infectious, or other disease, as specified.
This bill would, commencing September 1, 2007, also prohibit the commitment to the division of a ward who has been or is adjudged a ward of the court, and the most recent offense alleged in any petition and admitted or found to be true by the court is not any of the specified offenses referenced above, unless the offense was a specified sex offense. The bill would make conforming changes.
Under existing law, if a person has been
committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities, the Board of Parole Hearings is authorized, among other things, to permit the ward his or her liberty under supervision and upon conditions, as specified, order confinement of the ward, order reconfinement or renewed release under supervision, or revoke or modify any parole or disciplinary appeal order.
This bill would, commencing September 1, 2007, make these powers of the board subject to the provisions described above and below, and would provide that the county of commitment shall supervise the parole of any ward released on parole who was committed to the custody of the division for committing an offense other than those referenced above. The bill would require the court to set and convene a parole disposition hearing, as specified, and would provide that the division shall have no further jurisdiction over the ward. By changing the counties’ responsibilities with respect to juvenile offenses, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law authorizes the Board of Parole Hearings to suspend, cancel, or revoke any parole and order returned to custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilities any person committed to the division who is on parole.
This bill would provide, commencing September 1, 2007, that any parolee under the jurisdiction of the Division of Juvenile Parole Operations shall be returned to the custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilities if the parolee is under the jurisdiction of the division for the commission of an offense referenced above, or to the custody of the county of commitment if the parolee is under the jurisdiction of the division for the commission of an offense other than those referenced above.
Existing law establishes within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the State Commission on Juvenile Justice, which is comprised of
11 members whom are appointed, as specified, by the Senate Committee on Rules, the Speaker of the Assembly, the chairperson of the Judicial Council, and the Governor, after consultation with, and with the advice of, the secretary of the department, and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
This bill would change the composition of the State Commission on Juvenile Justice to 12 members, to include, among others, a representative of counties, a director of a county human services agency, an attorney with expertise in the area of juvenile justice policy, and a director of a county mental health agency, to be appointed by specified persons and entities, as described, and would abolish the commission on January 1, 2009.
Existing law requires the county of commitment to make specified payments to the state for each person committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities, including a percentage of per capita institutional
cost.
This bill would establish the Youthful Offender Block Grant Program, commencing September 1, 2007, to enhance the capacity of county departments to provide appropriate rehabilitative and supervision services to youthful offenders, and would require the State Commission on Juvenile Justice to develop a Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan for that purpose, as specified. The bill would require the Director of Finance to determine the total amount of the block grant pursuant to a specified formula and the allocation for each county, and to report those findings to the Controller who would then make an allocation to each county from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund, as established by this bill. The bill would provide for an annual increase in those amounts. The bill would require each county, on or before January 1, 2008, to prepare and submit to the Corrections Standards Authority for approval a Juvenile Justice Development Plan for youthful offenders
that includes a description of the programs, placements, services, or strategies to be funded by the block grant allocation. By increasing the duties of local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a participating county, as defined, and the State Public Works Board to enter into a construction agreement in order to acquire, design, renovate, or construct a local youthful offender rehabilitative facility approved by the Corrections Standards Authority, as specified. This bill would authorize the board to issue up to $100,000,000 in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes to finance the acquisition, design, renovation, or construction of approved local youthful offender rehabilitative facilities and would appropriate those funds for that purpose. This bill would provide that these provisions would become inoperative on June 30, 2017.
The bill would make a specified statement of legislative intent regarding the adequacy of the funding for the state mandate.
Existing law generally regulates the conditions of confinement for inmates and wards in state institutions and facilities. Existing law generally authorizes contracting by the state for the provision of specified services in connection with state institutions and facilities.
This bill would require the Department of General Services, in coordination with the Department of Technology Services, pursuant to other provisions of existing law, to amend contracts that provide telephone services to inmates and wards in state facilities in order to limit the amount of state concession fees per a prescribed schedule over several fiscal years, as specified.
Existing law appropriates $50,000,000 to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to supplement funds for rehabilitation and treatment of prison inmates and parolees. The funds may be used for staffing, contracts, and other services that include academic and vocational services, substance abuse treatment, and mental health treatment.
This bill would provide that those funds shall be used for developing prison-to-employment programs, expanding substance abuse programs for inmates and parolees, developing and implementing a risk assessment and needs assessment for inmates, establishing and funding day treatment services for mentally ill parolees, and expanding educational and vocational programs for inmates.
Existing law establishes within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the
Corrections Standards Authority which is charged with studying crime, as specified, with particular reference to conditions in California.
This bill would provide that the Corrections Standards Authority shall allocate funding for 2 one-time probation pilot projects, as specified. Each pilot project shall be funded at $5,000,000 and shall be provided to one county probation department, as specified.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant
to these statutory provisions.
This bill would provide that its provisions are severable.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as urgency statutes.