California Penal Code

§ 4533

PEN § 4533 Effective Apr 4, 2011Title 5 · Part 3 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

Every keeper of a prison, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or jailer, or person employed as a guard, who fraudulently contrives, procures, aids, connives at, or voluntarily permits the escape of any prisoner in custody, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, and fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 488. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.