California Code of Regulations
Title 15 - Crime Prevention and Corrections
Division 3 - Adult Institutions, Programs and Parole
Chapter 1 - Rules and Regulations of Adult Operations and Programs
Subchapter 4 - General Institution Regulations
Article 6 - Disciplinary Detention
Section 3330 - Disciplinary Detention

(a) An incarcerated person may not be assigned to disciplinary detention as defined in section 3000 except on the order of a disciplinary committee or senior disciplinary hearing officer.

(b) Disciplinary detention may be ordered in a housing unit or section of a housing unit specifically designed for that purpose or in any room or cell which provides the necessary security, control, and restriction of the incarcerated person's actions. When disciplinary detention is ordered in a housing unit other than a designed disciplinary detention unit, the conditions of detention will be the same as prescribed for disciplinary detention units.

(c) Disciplinary detention may be ordered as a continuous period of confinement or as intermittent confinement on holidays, weekends or days off from assigned work and program activities. When ordered as intermittent confinement, confinement shall not exceed 10 days during a 35-day period. The chief disciplinary officer shall review the treatment of an incarcerated person confined in disciplinary detention and consider a modification of sentence when evidence indicates the incarcerated person is ready to conform to the rules.

(d) Time served in disciplinary detention will be computed on the basis of full days in detention. The day of placement and the day of release will not count as a day of time served. Intermittent detention may extend from the end of the work day before the first full day of detention to the beginning of the work day following the last full day of detention.

(e) Continuous disciplinary detention of an incarcerated person shall not exceed 10 full days without approval of the director or deputy director, institutions.

(f) If an extension beyond 10 days is approved, the warden/superintendent shall note that fact in the disposition section of the rule violation report stating the reasons for the extension and the additional amount of time the incarcerated person shall be confined, and shall sign and date the notation.

(g) A request for the director's approval to retain an incarcerated person in disciplinary detention for longer than 30 days shall be accompanied by a current psychological evaluation of the incarcerated person's mental health. Such evaluation shall include a personal interview with the incarcerated person.