AB 1320: State prisons: private, for-profit administration services.

Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and sets forth its powers and duties regarding the administration of correctional facilities and the care and custody of inmates. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into one or more agreements with private entities to obtain secure housing capacity in the state or in another state, upon terms and conditions deemed necessary and appropriate to the secretary. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, authorizes the secretary to enter into agreements for the transfer of prisoners to, or placement of prisoners in, community correctional centers, and to enter into contracts to provide housing, sustenance, and supervision for inmates placed in community correctional centers.

This bill would prohibit the department from entering into a contract with an out-of state, private, for-profit prison on or after January 1, 2018, and would prohibit the department from renewing a contract with an out-of-state, private, for-profit prison on or after January 1, 2020. The bill would also prohibit, after January 1, 2021, any state prison inmate or other person under the jurisdiction of the department from being housed in any out-of-state, private, for-profit prison facility.