Cal. Government Code § 844
Cal. Government Code § 844
California · California Government Code · Status: effective · Effective 1997-01-01
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- Cal. Government Code § 844, California, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-25, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/830706
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As used in this chapter, “prisoner” includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. For the purposes of this chapter, a lawfully arrested person who is brought into a law enforcement facility for the purpose of being booked, as described in Section 7 of the Penal Code, becomes a prisoner, as a matter of law, upon his or her initial entry into a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility, pursuant to penal processes.