California Penal Code

§ 4024.3

PEN § 4024.3 Effective Jan 1, 1996Title 4 · Part 3 · Ch. 1

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of any county in which the average daily inmate population is 90 percent of the county’s correctional system’s mandated capacity may authorize the sheriff or other official in charge of county correctional facilities to operate a program under which any person committed to the facility is required to participate in a work release program pursuant to criteria described in subdivision (b) of Section 4024.2. Participants in this work release program shall receive any sentence reduction credits that they would have received had they served their sentences in a county correctional facility. Priority for participation in the work release program shall be given to inmates who volunteer to participate in the program.

(b)For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions apply:

(1)“County correctional system’s mandated capacity” means the total capacity of all jails and other correctional facilities for the permanent housing of adult inmates within the county.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 106, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.