California Penal Code 8080 – Each county or collaboration of counties electing to operate a …
Each county or collaboration of counties electing to operate a community-based punishment program under this chapter shall develop a community-based punishment plan describing the continuum of sanctions and services comprising its program. The plan shall be developed pursuant to guidelines established by the board and shall be updated annually or as determined by the board. The plan shall describe, at a minimum, the following:
(a) System design and administration, lines of authority, and responsible personnel, including, but not limited to, the chief correctional administrator and other relevant individuals.
Terms Used In California Penal Code 8080
- Board: means the Board of Corrections, unless otherwise indicated. See California Penal Code 8052
- Chief correctional administrator: means the sheriff, chief probation officer, or director of the county department of corrections, who is designated by the board of supervisors to have administrative responsibility for county corrections operations and programs, including a community-based punishment program. See California Penal Code 8052
- Community-based punishment: means a partnership between the state and a county or a collaboration of counties to manage and provide correctional services, especially those services considered to be intermediate sanctions at the local level of government for targeted, select offender populations pursuant to the community corrections plan of a county or a collaboration of counties. See California Penal Code 8052
- Community-based punishment plan: means the proposal for a community-based punishment program promulgated by a county or a collaboration of counties that has been developed by the chief correctional administrator, in cooperation with the district attorney, public defender, and other concerned community representatives designated by the board of supervisors, to address correctional needs in that county or collaboration of counties. See California Penal Code 8052
- county: includes "city and county". See California Penal Code 7
- Intermediate sanctions: means punishment options and sanctions other than simple incarceration in prison or jail or traditional routine probation supervision. See California Penal Code 8052
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
(b) The extent and nature of citizen involvement in the development and promulgation of the community-based punishment plan, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Consultation with a citizens’ advisory committee formed for the purpose of providing community input into the development and promulgation of a community-based punishment plan.
(2) Consultation with selected community leaders.
(3) Input derived from citizen testimony at public hearings or town hall meetings.
(c) The number and kind of offenders to participate in community-based punishment programs.
(d) Eligibility requirements.
(e) How offenders, including those coming from the courts and those who are probation and parole violators, are to be selected to participate.
(f) Community-based punishment program components, including, for example, which punishment options, intermediate sanctions, treatment options, or combinations are to be developed and used for which offenders.
(g) Responsibilities and relationships, including, but not limited to, the elements of community-based punishment programs that are administered by the sheriff’s department, the probation department, or parole personnel, and when and how offenders are to be programmed.
(h) Criteria for transferring offenders from more restrictive to less restrictive sanctions.
(i) Criteria for disciplinary interventions, imposition of stricter sanctions, or return to prison or jail, when necessary.
(j) Anticipated costs and funding needs.
(Added by Stats. 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 41, Sec. 4. Effective November 30, 1994.)