Opinion No. (2002)

BILL LOCKYER Attorney General MARJORIE E. COX Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE ERNEST J. LICALSI, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, COUNTY OF MADERA, has requested an opinion on the following question: Are persons committed to county jail who participate in an electronic monitoring home detention program eligible for good conduct and work credits? CONCLUSION Persons committed to county jail who participate in an electronic monitoring home detention program are eligible for good conduct and work credits. ANALYSIS Persons convicted of certain crimes and committed by a court to county jail may choose to participate in an electronic monitoring home detention program in lieu of serving their sentences by confinement in the county jail. Penal Code section 1203.016 1 provides: "(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of supervisors of any county may authorize the correctional administrator . . . to offer a program under which minimum security inmates and low-risk offenders committed to a county jail or other county correctional facility or granted probation, or inmates participating in a work furlough program, may voluntarily participate in a home detention program during their…