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Penal Code - PEN

PART 3. OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY [2000 - 10008]

  ( Part 3 repealed and added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106. )
  

TITLE 5. OFFENSES RELATING TO PRISONS AND PRISONERS [4500 - 4758]

  ( Title 5 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106. )
  

CHAPTER 2. Escapes and Rescues [4530 - 4550]

  ( Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106. )
  

ARTICLE 1. Escapes [4530 - 4537]
  ( Article 1 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 106. )

  
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 permits the escape of any prisoner in custody, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, and fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 488. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.)