Cal. PEN § 6242.6

This is the official text of Cal. PEN § 6242.6, part of California’s Penal Code — defines crimes and sets criminal procedure in California.

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(a) The board shall provide evaluation of the progress, activities, and performance of each center and participating county’s progress established pursuant to this chapter and shall report the findings thereon to the Legislature two years after the operational onset of each facility.

(b) The board shall select an outside monitoring firm in cooperation with the Auditor General’s office, to critique and evaluate the programs and their rates of success based on recidivism rates, drug use, and other factors it deems appropriate. Two years after the programs have begun operations, the report shall be provided to the Joint Legislative Prisons Committee, participating counties, the department, the State Department of Health Care Services, and other sources the board deems of value. Notwithstanding subdivision (k) of Section 6242, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) is hereby appropriated from the funds disbursed under this chapter from the 1990 Prison Construction Fund to the Board of Corrections to be used for program evaluation under this subdivision.

(c) The department shall be responsible for the ongoing monitoring of contract compliance for state offenders placed in each center.

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