BILL NUMBER: AB 1231	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 2045.1 of the Penal Code, relating to
prisons.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1231, as introduced, Logue. Prisons.
   Existing law provides for the establishment of prisons for the
confinement of males who have been convicted of a felony and are
under the custody of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation. The primary purposes of prisons are to provide
custody, care, industrial, vocational, and other training to persons
confined therein.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 2045.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   2045.1.  The prison authorized to be established by Section 2045
shall be a medium security type institution. Its primary purpose
shall be to provide custody, care, industrial, vocational, and other
training to persons confined therein. However, the  Director
  Secretary  of  the Department of 
Corrections  and Rehabilitation  may designate a portion or
all of the prison to serve the same purposes and to have the same
security standards as the institution provided for by Article 4
(commencing at Section 2035) of Chapter 1 of Title 1 of Part 3.