Government Code - GOV
TITLE 1. GENERAL [100 - 7931.000]
( Title 1 enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134. ) DIVISION 3.6. CLAIMS AND ACTIONS AGAINST PUBLIC ENTITIES AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES [810 - 998.3]
( Division 3.6 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681. ) PART 2. LIABILITY OF PUBLIC ENTITIES AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES [814 - 895.8]
( Part 2 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681. ) CHAPTER 3. Police and Correctional Activities [844 - 846]
( Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1681. ) 844.
As used in this chapter, “prisoner” includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. For the purposes of this chapter, a lawfully arrested person who is brought into a law enforcement facility for the purpose of being booked, as described in Section 7 of the Penal Code, becomes a prisoner, as a matter of law, upon his or her initial entry into a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility, pursuant to penal processes.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 395, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1997.)