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 4115.55 of the Penal Code is amended
2to read:
(a) Upon agreement with the sheriff or director of
4the county department of corrections, a board of supervisors may
5enter into a contract with other public agencies to provide housing
6for inmates sentenced to a county jail in community correctional
7facilities created pursuant to Article 1.5 (commencing with Section
82910) of Chapter 7 of Title 1 or Chapter 9.5 (commencing with
9Section 6250) of Title 7.
10(b) Upon agreement with the sheriff of the County of Los
11Angeles, the board of supervisors of the County of Los Angeles
12may enter into a contract with private agencies to provide housing
13for inmates sentenced to a county jail in community correctional
14facilities created pursuant to
Article 1.5 (commencing with Section
152910) of Chapter 7 of Title 1 or Chapter 9.5 (commencing with
16Section 6250) of Title 7.
17(b)
end delete
18begin insert(c)end insert Facilities operated pursuant to agreements entered into under
19begin delete subdivisionend deletebegin insert subdivisionsend insert (a)begin insert and (b)end insert shall comply with the
20minimum standards for local detention facilities as provided by
21Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 3000)
of Division 3 of Title
2215 of the California Code of Regulations.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special law
24is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable
25within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
26Constitution because of the unique circumstances concerning the
27County of Los Angeles, which include all of the following: (1) the
28county has been under a federal court-ordered population cap for
29over 30 years to reduce its jail inmate population, which is currently
30at 143 percent of design capacity; (2) as a result of the
31implementation of the 2011 Public Safety Realignment, the
32county’s jail system houses approximately 7,000 additional inmates
33at any given time, an increase of 25 percent; and (3) due to this
34population increase, the resulting overcrowding in the county jail
35system, and the federal court
order, inmates sentenced to county
36jail for a crime punishable pursuant to provisions other than
37subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code are serving only
P3 110 to 40 percent, inclusive, of their sentence before being released
2early to the community.
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