Riverside County Municipal Code Ch. 1.12 Prisoners

A. Purpose and Scope. The purpose of this section is to require certain persons confined in county correctional facilities to perform labor pursuant to Penal Code Section 4017.

B. Definitions. As used in this section:

"Labor" means any physical or mental activity or work directed toward the production of services or goods.

"Prisoner" means any person confined in the county jail, industrial farm, road camp or similar restrictive county facility under a final judgment of imprisonment rendered in a criminal action or proceeding or as a condition of probation after suspension of imposition of sentence or suspension of execution of a sentence.

"Public works or ways" means any project or improvement constructed or maintained by the county and districts governed by the board of supervisors, including, but not limited to, parks, buildings, paths, roads, streets, highways, public roads and flood control rights-of-way or easements, facilities, reservoirs, channels and sewers.

C. Prisoners Compelled to Labor. In accordance with Section 4017 of the Penal Code of the state of California, any and all prisoners as defined in subsection B of this section are required by the county to perform labor on the public works or ways.

D. Direction of Labor. Work assignments provided for in this section shall be made by the sheriff and the work shall be performed under the direction of a responsible person designated by the sheriff, including, but not limited to, work crew supervisors.

(Ord. 766 §§ 1—4, 1997)

Any prisoner who has been sentenced as a misdemeanant, or is serving time as a condition of probation upon conviction of a felony, and has been assigned for care, treatment and custody to any officer of the county in charge of an industrial farm, industrial road camp or honor camp established in the county, may be removed by such officer, or by the sheriff, under custody and without court order, from the facility to which he or she has been assigned, for purposes of private medical, vision or dental care, psychological care, vocational services, educational services or funerals.

(Ord. 535 § 1, 1971)