Bill Text: CA AB2534 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Inmates: county jails.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-01 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2534 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2534-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2534	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 4115.55 of the Penal Code, relating to
inmates.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2534, as introduced, Dababneh. Inmates: county jails.
    Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish and operate facilities to
be known as community correctional centers, and authorizes the
secretary to enter into contracts with appropriate public or private
agencies to provide housing, sustenance, and supervision for inmates
who are eligible for placement in those facilities.
   Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors to enter into a
contract with other public agencies, upon agreement with the sheriff
or director of the county department of corrections, to provide
housing for inmates sentenced to a county jail in community
correctional facilities, as specified, and requires that those
facilities comply with minimum standards for local detention
facilities.
   This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of the County
of Los Angeles, upon agreement with the sheriff of the County of Los
Angeles, to enter into a contract with private agencies to provide
housing for those inmates.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4115.55 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   4115.55.  (a) Upon agreement with the sheriff or director of the
county department of corrections, a board of supervisors may enter
into a contract with other public agencies to provide housing for
inmates sentenced to a county jail in community correctional
facilities created pursuant to Article 1.5 (commencing with Section
2910) of Chapter 7 of Title 1 or Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section
6250) of Title 7. 
   (b) Upon agreement with the sheriff of the County of Los Angeles,
the board of supervisors of the County of Los Angeles may enter into
a contract with private agencies to provide housing for inmates
sentenced to a county jail in community correctional facilities
created pursuant to Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 2910) of
Chapter 7 of Title 1 or Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of
Title 7.  
   (b) 
    (c)  Facilities operated pursuant to agreements entered
into under  subdivision   subdivisions  (a)
 and (b)  shall comply with the minimum standards for local
detention facilities as provided by Chapter 1 (commencing with
Section 3000) of Division 3 of Title 15 of the California Code of
Regulations.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances concerning the County of Los
Angeles, which include all of the following: (1) the county has been
under a federal court-ordered population cap for over 30 years to
reduce its jail inmate population, which is currently at 143 percent
of design capacity; (2) as a result of the implementation of the 2011
Public Safety Realignment, the county's jail system houses
approximately 7,000 additional inmates at any given time, an increase
of 25 percent; and (3) due to this population increase, the
resulting overcrowding in the county jail system, and the federal
court order, inmates sentenced to county jail for a crime punishable
pursuant to provisions other than subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of
the Penal Code are serving only 10 to 40 percent, inclusive, of their
sentence before being released early to the community.