The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 144 Cal. App. 4th 475 - In Re Elkins (2006)
Most recently applied in 190 Cal. App. 4th 447 - In re Twinn (November 2010)
Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 255.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The Department of Corrections shall not require, as a condition for any form of treatment or custody that the department offers, an admission of guilt to any crime for which an inmate was committed to the custody of the department.
(b) The Board of Prison Terms shall not require, when setting parole dates, an admission of guilt to any crime for which an inmate was committed.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.