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CALIFORNIA STATUTES AND CODES
SECTIONS 6024-6031.6
PENAL CODE
SECTION 6024-6031.6
6024. Commencing July 1, 2005, there is hereby established within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the Corrections Standards Authority. As of July 1, 2005, any reference to the Board of Corrections refers to the Corrections Standards Authority. As of that date, the Board of Corrections is abolished. 6025. (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, the Corrections Standards Authority shall be composed of 19 members, one of whom shall be the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or his or her designee, who shall be designated as the chairperson, and four of whom shall be subordinate officers of the secretary. At least one subordinate officer shall be a manager or administrator of a state correctional facility for adult offenders, and at least one subordinate officer shall be a manager or administrator of a state correctional facility for juvenile offenders. The remaining 14 members shall be appointed by the Governor after consultation with, and with the advice of, the secretary, and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The gubernatorial appointments shall include all of the following: (1) A county sheriff in charge of a local detention facility which has a Corrections Standards Authority rated capacity of 200 or less inmates. (2) A county sheriff in charge of a local detention facility which has a Corrections Standards Authority rated capacity of over 200 inmates. (3) A county supervisor or county administrative officer. (4) A chief probation officer from a county with a population over 200,000. (5) A chief probation officer from a county with a population under 200,000. (6) A manager or administrator of a county local detention facility. (7) An administrator of a local community-based correctional program. (8) Two public members, at least one of whom shall represent the interests of crime victims. (9) Four rank and file representatives: one juvenile probation officer who is a first-line supervisor or lower rank, with a minimum of five years of experience as a juvenile probation officer; one deputy sheriff who is a sergeant or lower rank, with a minimum of five years of experience in an adult correctional facility; one state parole officer or parole agent; and one person with a minimum of five years experience working in a state adult correctional facility. (10) A representative of a community-based youth service organization. (b) The terms of the members appointed by the Governor shall expire as follows: seven on July 1, 2007, and seven on July 1, 2008. Successor members shall hold office for terms of three years, each term to commence on the expiration date of the predecessor. Any appointment to a vacancy that occurs for any reason other than expiration of the term shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term. Members are eligible for reappointment. (c) The authority shall select a vice chairperson from among its members. Ten members of the board shall constitute a quorum. (d) When the authority is hearing charges against any member, the individual concerned shall not sit as a member of the board for the period of hearing of charges and the determination of recommendations to the Governor. (e) If any appointed member is not in attendance for three consecutive meetings the authority may recommend to the Governor that the member be removed and the Governor may make a new appointment, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the remainder of the term. 6025.1. Members of the board shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. For purposes of compensation, attendance at meetings of the board shall be deemed performance by a member of the duties of his state or local governmental employment. 6025.5. The Director of Corrections, Board of Prison Terms, the Youthful Offender Parole Board, and the Director of the Youth Authority shall file with the Board of Corrections for information of the board or for review and advice to the respective agency as the board may determine, all rules, regulations and manuals relating to or in implementation of policies, procedures, or enabling laws. 6025.6. The Board of Corrections may delegate any ministerial authority or duty conferred or imposed upon the board to a subordinate officer subject to those conditions as it may choose to impose. 6026. The Corrections Standards Authority shall be the means whereby the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may correlate its individual programs for adults and youths under its jurisdiction. 6027. It shall be the duty of the Board of Corrections to make a study of the entire subject of crime, with particular reference to conditions in the State of California, including causes of crime, possible methods of prevention of crime, methods of detection of crime and apprehension of criminals, methods of prosecution of persons accused of crime, and the entire subject of penology, including standards and training for correctional personnel, and to report its findings, its conclusions and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature at such times as they may require. 6028. Upon request of the Board of Corrections or upon his own initiative, the Governor from time to time may create by executive order one or more special commissions to assist the Board of Corrections in the study of crime pursuant to Section 6027. Each such special commission shall consist of not less than three nor more than five members, who shall be appointed by the Governor. The members of any such special commission shall serve without compensation, except that they shall receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties. The executive order creating each special commission shall specify the subjects and scope of the study to be made by the commission, and shall fix a time within which the commission shall make its final report. Each commission shall cease to exist when it makes its final report. 6028.1. Each such special commission may investigate any and all matters relating to the subjects specified in the order creating it. In the exercise of its powers the commission shall be subject to the following conditions and limitations: (a) A witness at any hearing shall have the right to have present at such hearing counsel of his own choice, for the purpose of advising him concerning his constitutional rights. (b) No hearing shall be televised or broadcast by radio, nor shall any mechanical, photographic or electronic record of the proceedings at any hearing be televised or broadcast by radio. 6028.2. The Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency may furnish for the use of any such commission such facilities, supplies, and personnel as may be available therefor. 6028.3. All such special commissions shall make all their reports and recommendations to the Board of Corrections. The Board of Corrections shall consider such reports and recommendations, and shall transmit them to the Governor and the Legislature, together with its own comments and recommendations on the subject matter thereof, within the first 30 days of the next succeeding general or budget session of the Legislature. The Board of Corrections shall also file copies of such reports with the Attorney General, the State Library and such other state departments as may appear to have an official interest in the subject matter of the report or reports in question. 6028.4. The Governor shall report to each regular session of the Legislature the names of any persons appointed under Section 6028 together with a statement of expenses incurred. 6029. (a) The plans and specifications of every jail, prison, or other place of detention of persons charged with or convicted of crime or of persons detained pursuant to the Juvenile Court Law (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 200) of Division 2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) or the Youth Authority Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1700) of Division 2.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), if those plans and specifications involve construction, reconstruction, remodeling, or repairs of an aggregate cost in excess of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), shall be submitted to the board for its recommendations. Upon request of any city, city and county, or county, the board shall consider the entire program or group of detention facilities currently planned or under consideration by the city, city and county, or county, and make a study of the entire needs of the city, city and county, or county therefor, and make recommendations thereon. No state department or agency other than the board shall have authority to make recommendations in respect to plans and specifications for the construction of county jails or other county detention facilities or for alterations thereto, except such recommendations as the board may request from any such state department or agency. (b) As used in this section, "place of detention" includes, but is not limited to, a correctional treatment center, as defined in subdivision (k) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, which is operated by a city, city and county, or county. 6029.1. (a) There is hereby created the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund. Moneys in the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund shall be expended by the Board of Corrections as specified in this section to assist counties to finance jail construction. Moneys in the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund shall be available for encumbrance without regard to fiscal years, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall not revert to the General Fund or be transferred to any other fund or account in the State Treasury except for purposes of investment as provided in Article 4 (commencing with Section 16470) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. All interest or other increment resulting from such investment shall be deposited in the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund, notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government Code. (b) As used in this section, "construction" shall include, but not be limited to, reconstruction, remodeling, replacement of facilities, and the performance of deferred maintenance activities on facilities pursuant to rules and regulations regarding such activities as shall be adopted by the Board of Corrections. (c) The Board of Corrections shall provide financial assistance to counties from the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund according to policies, criteria, and procedures adopted by the board pursuant to recommendations made by the appropriate subcommittees of the Senate Committee on Criminal Procedure and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and after consulting with a representative sample of county boards of supervisors and sheriffs. (d) In performing the duties set forth in this section, the Board of Corrections and the policy committees of the Legislature shall consider the following: (1) The extent to which the county requesting aid has exhausted all other available means of raising the requested funds for the capital improvements and the extent to which the funds from the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund will be utilized to attract other sources of capital financing for county jail facilities; (2) The extent to which a substantial county match shall be required and any circumstances under which the county match may be reduced or waived; (3) The extent to which the county's match shall be based on the county's previous compliance with Board of Corrections standards; (4) The extent to which the capital improvements are necessary to the life or safety of the persons confined or employed in the facility or the health and sanitary conditions of the facility; (5) The extent to which the county has utilized reasonable alternatives to pre- and post-conviction incarceration, including, but not limited to, programs to facilitate release upon one's own recognizance where appropriate to individuals pending trial, sentencing alternatives to custody, and civil commitment or diversion programs consistent with public safety for those with drug- or alcohol-related problems or mental or developmental disabilities. 6029.5. The Board of Corrections is authorized to expend money from the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund, created pursuant to Sections 4412 and 6029.1, on joint use correctional facilities housing county and state or federal prisoners or any combination thereof in proportion to the county benefit. 6030. (a) The Corrections Standards Authority shall establish minimum standards for state and local correctional facilities. The standards for state correctional facilities shall be established by January 1, 2007. The authority shall review those standards biennially and make any appropriate revisions. (b) The standards shall include, but not be limited to, the following: health and sanitary conditions, fire and life safety, security, rehabilitation programs, recreation, treatment of persons confined in state and local correctional facilities, and personnel training. (c) The standards shall require that at least one person on duty at the facility is knowledgeable in the area of fire and life safety procedures. (d) The standards shall also include requirements relating to the acquisition, storage, labeling, packaging, and dispensing of drugs. (e) The standards shall require that inmates who are received by the facility while they are pregnant are provided all of the following: (1) A balanced, nutritious diet approved by a doctor. (2) Prenatal and postpartum information and health care, including, but not limited to, access to necessary vitamins as recommended by a doctor. (3) Information pertaining to childbirth education and infant care. (4) A dental cleaning while in a state facility. (f) The standards shall provide that at no time shall a woman who is in labor be shackled by the wrists, ankles, or both including during transport to a hospital, during delivery, and while in recovery after giving birth, except as provided in Section 5007.7. (g) In establishing minimum standards, the authority shall seek the advice of the following: (1) For health and sanitary conditions: The State Department of Health Services, physicians, psychiatrists, local public health officials, and other interested persons. (2) For fire and life safety: The State Fire Marshal, local fire officials, and other interested persons. (3) For security, rehabilitation programs, recreation, and treatment of persons confined in correctional facilities: The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, state and local juvenile justice commissions, state and local correctional officials, experts in criminology and penology, and other interested persons. (4) For personnel training: The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, psychiatrists, experts in criminology and penology, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, state and local correctional officials, and other interested persons. (5) For female inmates and pregnant inmates in local adult and juvenile facilities: The California State Sheriffs' Association and Chief Probation Officers' Association of California, and other interested persons. 6031. (a) The Board of Corrections shall inspect each local detention facility in the state biennially. (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 1997. 6031.1. Inspections of local detention facilities shall be made biennially. Inspections of privately operated work furlough facilities and programs shall be made biennially unless the work furlough administrator requests an earlier inspection. Inspections shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Health and safety inspections conducted pursuant to Section 101045 of the Health and Safety Code. (b) Fire suppression preplanning inspections by the local fire department. (c) Security, rehabilitation programs, recreation, treatment of persons confined in the facilities, and personnel training by the staff of the Board of Corrections. Reports of each facility's inspection shall be furnished to the official in charge of the local detention facility or, in the case of a privately operated facility, the work furlough administrator, the local governing body, the grand jury, and the presiding judge of the superior court in the county where the facility is located. These reports shall set forth the areas wherein the facility has complied and has failed to comply with the minimum standards established pursuant to Section 6030. 6031.2. The Board of Corrections shall file with the Legislature on December 30, in each even-numbered year, reports to the Legislature which shall include information on all of the following: (a) Inspection of those local detention facilities that have not complied with the minimum standards established pursuant to Section 6030. The reports shall specify those areas in which the facility has failed to comply and the estimated cost to the facility necessary to accomplish compliance with the minimum standards. (b) Information regarding the progress and effectiveness of the standards and training program contained in Sections 6035 to 6037, inclusive. (c) Status of funds expended, interest earned, actions implementing the prerequisites for funding, any reallocations of funds pursuant to Sections 4497.04 to 4497.16, inclusive, and a complete listing of funds allocated to each county. (d) Inmate accounting system data to be maintained on an annual basis by the sheriff, chief of police, or other official in charge of operating the adult detention system in a county or city, including all of the following: (1) Average daily population of sentenced and unsentenced prisoners classified according to gender and juvenile status. (2) Jail admissions of sentenced and unsentenced prisoners, booking charge, date and time of booking, date and time of release, and operating expenses. (3) Detention system capital and operating expenses. 6031.3. The Board of Corrections is authorized to apply for any funds that may be available from the federal government to further the purposes of Sections 6030 to 6031.2, inclusive. 6031.4. (a) For the purpose of this title, "local detention facility" means any city, county, city and county, or regional facility used for the confinement for more than 24 hours of adults, or of both adults and minors, but does not include that portion of a facility for the confinement of both adults and minors which is devoted only to the confinement of minors. (b) In addition to those provided for in subdivision (a), for the purposes of this title, "local detention facility" also includes any city, county, city and county, or regional facility, constructed on or after January 1, 1978, used for the confinement, regardless of the length of confinement, of adults or of both adults and minors, but does not include that portion of a facility for the confinement of both adults and minors which is devoted only to the confinement of minors. (c) "Local detention facility" also includes any adult detention facility, exclusive of any facility operated by the California Department of Corrections or any facility holding inmates pursuant to Section 2910.5, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 3410) of Title 2 of, Chapter 9.2 (commencing with Section 6220) of Title 7 of, Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Title 7 of, or Chapter 9.6 (commencing with Section 6260) of Title 7 of, Part 3, that holds local prisoners under contract on behalf of cities, counties, or cities and counties. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as affecting or authorizing the establishment of private detention facilities. (d) For purposes of this title, a local detention facility does not include those rooms that are used for holding persons for interviews, interrogations, or investigations, and are either separate from a jail or located in the administrative area of a law enforcement facility. 6031.5. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "correctional personnel" means either of the following: (1) Any person described by subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 830.5, 830.55, 831, or 831.5. (2) Any class of persons who perform supervision, custody, care, or treatment functions and are employed by the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, any correctional or detention facility, probation department, community-based correctional program, or other state or local public facility or program responsible for the custody, supervision, treatment, or rehabilitation of persons accused of, or adjudged responsible for, criminal or delinquent conduct. 6031.6. (a) Any privately operated local detention facility responsible for the custody and control of any local prisoner shall, as required by subdivision (a) of Section 1208, operate pursuant to a contract with the city, county, or city and county, as appropriate. (b) (1) Each contract shall include, but not be limited to, a provision whereby the private agency or entity agrees to operate in compliance with all appropriate state and local building, zoning, health, safety, and fire statutes, ordinances, and regulations, and with the minimum jail standards established by regulations adopted by the Board of Corrections, as set forth in Subchapter 4 (commencing with Section 1000) of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 15 of the California Code of Regulations. (2) The private agency or entity shall select and train its personnel in accordance with selection and training requirements adopted by the Board of Corrections as set forth in Subchapter 1 (commencing with Section 100) of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 15 of the California Code of Regulations. (3) The failure of a privately operated local detention facility to comply with the appropriate health, safety, and fire laws, or with the minimum jail standards adopted by the Board of Corrections, may constitute grounds for the termination of the contract. (c) Upon the discovery of a failure of a privately operated local detention facility to comply with the requirements of subdivision (b), the local governmental entity shall notify the director of the facility that sanctions shall be applied or the contract shall be canceled if the specified deficiencies are not corrected within 60 days.
SECTION 6024-6031.6
6024. Commencing July 1, 2005, there is hereby established within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the Corrections Standards Authority. As of July 1, 2005, any reference to the Board of Corrections refers to the Corrections Standards Authority. As of that date, the Board of Corrections is abolished. 6025. (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, the Corrections Standards Authority shall be composed of 19 members, one of whom shall be the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or his or her designee, who shall be designated as the chairperson, and four of whom shall be subordinate officers of the secretary. At least one subordinate officer shall be a manager or administrator of a state correctional facility for adult offenders, and at least one subordinate officer shall be a manager or administrator of a state correctional facility for juvenile offenders. The remaining 14 members shall be appointed by the Governor after consultation with, and with the advice of, the secretary, and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The gubernatorial appointments shall include all of the following: (1) A county sheriff in charge of a local detention facility which has a Corrections Standards Authority rated capacity of 200 or less inmates. (2) A county sheriff in charge of a local detention facility which has a Corrections Standards Authority rated capacity of over 200 inmates. (3) A county supervisor or county administrative officer. (4) A chief probation officer from a county with a population over 200,000. (5) A chief probation officer from a county with a population under 200,000. (6) A manager or administrator of a county local detention facility. (7) An administrator of a local community-based correctional program. (8) Two public members, at least one of whom shall represent the interests of crime victims. (9) Four rank and file representatives: one juvenile probation officer who is a first-line supervisor or lower rank, with a minimum of five years of experience as a juvenile probation officer; one deputy sheriff who is a sergeant or lower rank, with a minimum of five years of experience in an adult correctional facility; one state parole officer or parole agent; and one person with a minimum of five years experience working in a state adult correctional facility. (10) A representative of a community-based youth service organization. (b) The terms of the members appointed by the Governor shall expire as follows: seven on July 1, 2007, and seven on July 1, 2008. Successor members shall hold office for terms of three years, each term to commence on the expiration date of the predecessor. Any appointment to a vacancy that occurs for any reason other than expiration of the term shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term. Members are eligible for reappointment. (c) The authority shall select a vice chairperson from among its members. Ten members of the board shall constitute a quorum. (d) When the authority is hearing charges against any member, the individual concerned shall not sit as a member of the board for the period of hearing of charges and the determination of recommendations to the Governor. (e) If any appointed member is not in attendance for three consecutive meetings the authority may recommend to the Governor that the member be removed and the Governor may make a new appointment, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the remainder of the term. 6025.1. Members of the board shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. For purposes of compensation, attendance at meetings of the board shall be deemed performance by a member of the duties of his state or local governmental employment. 6025.5. The Director of Corrections, Board of Prison Terms, the Youthful Offender Parole Board, and the Director of the Youth Authority shall file with the Board of Corrections for information of the board or for review and advice to the respective agency as the board may determine, all rules, regulations and manuals relating to or in implementation of policies, procedures, or enabling laws. 6025.6. The Board of Corrections may delegate any ministerial authority or duty conferred or imposed upon the board to a subordinate officer subject to those conditions as it may choose to impose. 6026. The Corrections Standards Authority shall be the means whereby the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may correlate its individual programs for adults and youths under its jurisdiction. 6027. It shall be the duty of the Board of Corrections to make a study of the entire subject of crime, with particular reference to conditions in the State of California, including causes of crime, possible methods of prevention of crime, methods of detection of crime and apprehension of criminals, methods of prosecution of persons accused of crime, and the entire subject of penology, including standards and training for correctional personnel, and to report its findings, its conclusions and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature at such times as they may require. 6028. Upon request of the Board of Corrections or upon his own initiative, the Governor from time to time may create by executive order one or more special commissions to assist the Board of Corrections in the study of crime pursuant to Section 6027. Each such special commission shall consist of not less than three nor more than five members, who shall be appointed by the Governor. The members of any such special commission shall serve without compensation, except that they shall receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties. The executive order creating each special commission shall specify the subjects and scope of the study to be made by the commission, and shall fix a time within which the commission shall make its final report. Each commission shall cease to exist when it makes its final report. 6028.1. Each such special commission may investigate any and all matters relating to the subjects specified in the order creating it. In the exercise of its powers the commission shall be subject to the following conditions and limitations: (a) A witness at any hearing shall have the right to have present at such hearing counsel of his own choice, for the purpose of advising him concerning his constitutional rights. (b) No hearing shall be televised or broadcast by radio, nor shall any mechanical, photographic or electronic record of the proceedings at any hearing be televised or broadcast by radio. 6028.2. The Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency may furnish for the use of any such commission such facilities, supplies, and personnel as may be available therefor. 6028.3. All such special commissions shall make all their reports and recommendations to the Board of Corrections. The Board of Corrections shall consider such reports and recommendations, and shall transmit them to the Governor and the Legislature, together with its own comments and recommendations on the subject matter thereof, within the first 30 days of the next succeeding general or budget session of the Legislature. The Board of Corrections shall also file copies of such reports with the Attorney General, the State Library and such other state departments as may appear to have an official interest in the subject matter of the report or reports in question. 6028.4. The Governor shall report to each regular session of the Legislature the names of any persons appointed under Section 6028 together with a statement of expenses incurred. 6029. (a) The plans and specifications of every jail, prison, or other place of detention of persons charged with or convicted of crime or of persons detained pursuant to the Juvenile Court Law (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 200) of Division 2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) or the Youth Authority Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1700) of Division 2.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), if those plans and specifications involve construction, reconstruction, remodeling, or repairs of an aggregate cost in excess of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), shall be submitted to the board for its recommendations. Upon request of any city, city and county, or county, the board shall consider the entire program or group of detention facilities currently planned or under consideration by the city, city and county, or county, and make a study of the entire needs of the city, city and county, or county therefor, and make recommendations thereon. No state department or agency other than the board shall have authority to make recommendations in respect to plans and specifications for the construction of county jails or other county detention facilities or for alterations thereto, except such recommendations as the board may request from any such state department or agency. (b) As used in this section, "place of detention" includes, but is not limited to, a correctional treatment center, as defined in subdivision (k) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, which is operated by a city, city and county, or county. 6029.1. (a) There is hereby created the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund. Moneys in the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund shall be expended by the Board of Corrections as specified in this section to assist counties to finance jail construction. Moneys in the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund shall be available for encumbrance without regard to fiscal years, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall not revert to the General Fund or be transferred to any other fund or account in the State Treasury except for purposes of investment as provided in Article 4 (commencing with Section 16470) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. All interest or other increment resulting from such investment shall be deposited in the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund, notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government Code. (b) As used in this section, "construction" shall include, but not be limited to, reconstruction, remodeling, replacement of facilities, and the performance of deferred maintenance activities on facilities pursuant to rules and regulations regarding such activities as shall be adopted by the Board of Corrections. (c) The Board of Corrections shall provide financial assistance to counties from the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund according to policies, criteria, and procedures adopted by the board pursuant to recommendations made by the appropriate subcommittees of the Senate Committee on Criminal Procedure and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and after consulting with a representative sample of county boards of supervisors and sheriffs. (d) In performing the duties set forth in this section, the Board of Corrections and the policy committees of the Legislature shall consider the following: (1) The extent to which the county requesting aid has exhausted all other available means of raising the requested funds for the capital improvements and the extent to which the funds from the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund will be utilized to attract other sources of capital financing for county jail facilities; (2) The extent to which a substantial county match shall be required and any circumstances under which the county match may be reduced or waived; (3) The extent to which the county's match shall be based on the county's previous compliance with Board of Corrections standards; (4) The extent to which the capital improvements are necessary to the life or safety of the persons confined or employed in the facility or the health and sanitary conditions of the facility; (5) The extent to which the county has utilized reasonable alternatives to pre- and post-conviction incarceration, including, but not limited to, programs to facilitate release upon one's own recognizance where appropriate to individuals pending trial, sentencing alternatives to custody, and civil commitment or diversion programs consistent with public safety for those with drug- or alcohol-related problems or mental or developmental disabilities. 6029.5. The Board of Corrections is authorized to expend money from the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund, created pursuant to Sections 4412 and 6029.1, on joint use correctional facilities housing county and state or federal prisoners or any combination thereof in proportion to the county benefit. 6030. (a) The Corrections Standards Authority shall establish minimum standards for state and local correctional facilities. The standards for state correctional facilities shall be established by January 1, 2007. The authority shall review those standards biennially and make any appropriate revisions. (b) The standards shall include, but not be limited to, the following: health and sanitary conditions, fire and life safety, security, rehabilitation programs, recreation, treatment of persons confined in state and local correctional facilities, and personnel training. (c) The standards shall require that at least one person on duty at the facility is knowledgeable in the area of fire and life safety procedures. (d) The standards shall also include requirements relating to the acquisition, storage, labeling, packaging, and dispensing of drugs. (e) The standards shall require that inmates who are received by the facility while they are pregnant are provided all of the following: (1) A balanced, nutritious diet approved by a doctor. (2) Prenatal and postpartum information and health care, including, but not limited to, access to necessary vitamins as recommended by a doctor. (3) Information pertaining to childbirth education and infant care. (4) A dental cleaning while in a state facility. (f) The standards shall provide that at no time shall a woman who is in labor be shackled by the wrists, ankles, or both including during transport to a hospital, during delivery, and while in recovery after giving birth, except as provided in Section 5007.7. (g) In establishing minimum standards, the authority shall seek the advice of the following: (1) For health and sanitary conditions: The State Department of Health Services, physicians, psychiatrists, local public health officials, and other interested persons. (2) For fire and life safety: The State Fire Marshal, local fire officials, and other interested persons. (3) For security, rehabilitation programs, recreation, and treatment of persons confined in correctional facilities: The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, state and local juvenile justice commissions, state and local correctional officials, experts in criminology and penology, and other interested persons. (4) For personnel training: The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, psychiatrists, experts in criminology and penology, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, state and local correctional officials, and other interested persons. (5) For female inmates and pregnant inmates in local adult and juvenile facilities: The California State Sheriffs' Association and Chief Probation Officers' Association of California, and other interested persons. 6031. (a) The Board of Corrections shall inspect each local detention facility in the state biennially. (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 1997. 6031.1. Inspections of local detention facilities shall be made biennially. Inspections of privately operated work furlough facilities and programs shall be made biennially unless the work furlough administrator requests an earlier inspection. Inspections shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Health and safety inspections conducted pursuant to Section 101045 of the Health and Safety Code. (b) Fire suppression preplanning inspections by the local fire department. (c) Security, rehabilitation programs, recreation, treatment of persons confined in the facilities, and personnel training by the staff of the Board of Corrections. Reports of each facility's inspection shall be furnished to the official in charge of the local detention facility or, in the case of a privately operated facility, the work furlough administrator, the local governing body, the grand jury, and the presiding judge of the superior court in the county where the facility is located. These reports shall set forth the areas wherein the facility has complied and has failed to comply with the minimum standards established pursuant to Section 6030. 6031.2. The Board of Corrections shall file with the Legislature on December 30, in each even-numbered year, reports to the Legislature which shall include information on all of the following: (a) Inspection of those local detention facilities that have not complied with the minimum standards established pursuant to Section 6030. The reports shall specify those areas in which the facility has failed to comply and the estimated cost to the facility necessary to accomplish compliance with the minimum standards. (b) Information regarding the progress and effectiveness of the standards and training program contained in Sections 6035 to 6037, inclusive. (c) Status of funds expended, interest earned, actions implementing the prerequisites for funding, any reallocations of funds pursuant to Sections 4497.04 to 4497.16, inclusive, and a complete listing of funds allocated to each county. (d) Inmate accounting system data to be maintained on an annual basis by the sheriff, chief of police, or other official in charge of operating the adult detention system in a county or city, including all of the following: (1) Average daily population of sentenced and unsentenced prisoners classified according to gender and juvenile status. (2) Jail admissions of sentenced and unsentenced prisoners, booking charge, date and time of booking, date and time of release, and operating expenses. (3) Detention system capital and operating expenses. 6031.3. The Board of Corrections is authorized to apply for any funds that may be available from the federal government to further the purposes of Sections 6030 to 6031.2, inclusive. 6031.4. (a) For the purpose of this title, "local detention facility" means any city, county, city and county, or regional facility used for the confinement for more than 24 hours of adults, or of both adults and minors, but does not include that portion of a facility for the confinement of both adults and minors which is devoted only to the confinement of minors. (b) In addition to those provided for in subdivision (a), for the purposes of this title, "local detention facility" also includes any city, county, city and county, or regional facility, constructed on or after January 1, 1978, used for the confinement, regardless of the length of confinement, of adults or of both adults and minors, but does not include that portion of a facility for the confinement of both adults and minors which is devoted only to the confinement of minors. (c) "Local detention facility" also includes any adult detention facility, exclusive of any facility operated by the California Department of Corrections or any facility holding inmates pursuant to Section 2910.5, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 3410) of Title 2 of, Chapter 9.2 (commencing with Section 6220) of Title 7 of, Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Title 7 of, or Chapter 9.6 (commencing with Section 6260) of Title 7 of, Part 3, that holds local prisoners under contract on behalf of cities, counties, or cities and counties. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as affecting or authorizing the establishment of private detention facilities. (d) For purposes of this title, a local detention facility does not include those rooms that are used for holding persons for interviews, interrogations, or investigations, and are either separate from a jail or located in the administrative area of a law enforcement facility. 6031.5. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "correctional personnel" means either of the following: (1) Any person described by subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 830.5, 830.55, 831, or 831.5. (2) Any class of persons who perform supervision, custody, care, or treatment functions and are employed by the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, any correctional or detention facility, probation department, community-based correctional program, or other state or local public facility or program responsible for the custody, supervision, treatment, or rehabilitation of persons accused of, or adjudged responsible for, criminal or delinquent conduct. 6031.6. (a) Any privately operated local detention facility responsible for the custody and control of any local prisoner shall, as required by subdivision (a) of Section 1208, operate pursuant to a contract with the city, county, or city and county, as appropriate. (b) (1) Each contract shall include, but not be limited to, a provision whereby the private agency or entity agrees to operate in compliance with all appropriate state and local building, zoning, health, safety, and fire statutes, ordinances, and regulations, and with the minimum jail standards established by regulations adopted by the Board of Corrections, as set forth in Subchapter 4 (commencing with Section 1000) of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 15 of the California Code of Regulations. (2) The private agency or entity shall select and train its personnel in accordance with selection and training requirements adopted by the Board of Corrections as set forth in Subchapter 1 (commencing with Section 100) of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of Title 15 of the California Code of Regulations. (3) The failure of a privately operated local detention facility to comply with the appropriate health, safety, and fire laws, or with the minimum jail standards adopted by the Board of Corrections, may constitute grounds for the termination of the contract. (c) Upon the discovery of a failure of a privately operated local detention facility to comply with the requirements of subdivision (b), the local governmental entity shall notify the director of the facility that sanctions shall be applied or the contract shall be canceled if the specified deficiencies are not corrected within 60 days.
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