California Penal Code

§ 6250.5

PEN § 6250.5 Effective Jan 1, 1998Title 7 · Part 3 · Ch. 9.5

Statute text

(a)The Director of Corrections may contract for the establishment and operation of community correctional facilities that offer programs for the treatment of addiction to alcohol or controlled substances based on the therapeutic community model, only if the cost per inmate of operating the facilities will be less than the cost per inmate of operating similar state facilities. The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of a therapeutic community program, which emphasizes alcohol and controlled substance rehabilitation, is to substantially increase the likelihood of successful parole for those inmates.

(b)Each facility under contract pursuant to this section shall provide programs that prepare each inmate for successful reintegration into society. Those programs shall involve constant counseling in drug and alcohol abuse, employment skills, victim awareness, and family responsibility, and generally shall prepare each inmate for return to society. The programs also shall emphasize literacy training and use computer-supported training so that inmates may improve their reading and writing skills. The program shall include postincarceration counseling and care in order to ensure a greater opportunity for success.

(c)The department may enter into a long-term agreement, not to exceed 20 years, for transfer of prisoners to, or placement of prisoners in, facilities under contract pursuant to this section.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 643, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1998.