THE ROBERT PRESLEY CENTER OF CRIME AND JUSTICE
STUDIES

5085. The Robert Presley Institute of Corrections Research and
Training, which provides and aggregates research on youth and adult
corrections education and training, is hereby renamed the Robert
Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies and shall be transferred
to the University of California. It is the intent of the Legislature
that the center be maintained on the Riverside campus of the
University of California.



5086. It is the intent of the Legislature that the university seek
funding from federal, state, and private sources for research
projects carried out by the center under the university's direction.
The center shall have the following research goals:
(a) To better protect the public from crime by determining the
causes of, and means of preventing, violence, crime, and criminal
deviance.
(b) To identify the methods and practices necessary for the most
beneficial operation of law enforcement and local and state youth and
adult correctional institutions.
(c) To reduce violence and recidivism rates in prisons, jails, and
youth facilities.



5087. The chancellor of the Riverside campus may appoint an
advisory committee to assist in establishing research priorities.
The university shall consult with the Department of Corrections, the
Department of the Youth Authority, local law enforcement, probation,
parole, and correctional agencies, and persons of experience or
education in other higher education institutions in the field of
corrections or related fields on the activities of the center. These
projects shall be related to the center's goals as specified in
Section 5086 and may also include, but not be limited to, applied and
theoretical research in the following areas:
(a) Methods of ensuring secure, cost-effective, safe, and
gang-free incarceration in California's correctional institutions,
including approaches to ameliorate overcrowding in those
institutions.
(b) New approaches to reduce inmate and ward recidivism and
consequent victimization of California citizens.
(c) Correctional facility management, planning, design, and
construction.
(d) New approaches to rehabilitate inmates and wards during and
after incarceration and to integrate offenders into society after
incarceration.
(e) New approaches to inmate and ward diagnosis, classification,
and treatment.
(f) At-risk youth and street gang activity.
(g) Law enforcement.


5088. The university shall negotiate and approve terms, services,
and costs of contracts and research projects for purposes of this
chapter.
DIVISION OF JUVENILE FACILITIES

6001. Commencing July 1, 2005, the establishment, organization,
jurisdiction, powers, duties, responsibilities, and functions of the
Youth Authority as provided in the Youth Authority Act (Chapter 1
(commencing with Section 1700) of Division 2.5 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code), as it existed on June 30, 2005, are continued in
the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of
Juvenile Facilities.



6005. (a) Whenever a person confined to a correctional institution
under the supervision of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation is charged with a public offense committed within the
confines of that institution and is tried for that public offense, a
city, county, or superior court shall be entitled to reimbursement
for reasonable and necessary costs connected with that matter.
(b) The appropriate financial officer or other designated official
of a county or the city finance officer of a city incurring any
costs in connection with that matter shall make out a statement of
all the costs incurred by the county or city for the investigation,
the preparation for the trial, participation in the actual trial of
the case, all guarding and keeping of the person, and the execution
of the sentence of the person, properly certified to by a judge of
the superior court of the county. The statement may not include any
costs that are incurred by the superior court pursuant to subdivision
(c). The statement shall be sent to the department for its approval.
After the approval the department must cause the amount of the costs
to be paid out of the money appropriated for the support of the
department to the county treasurer of the county or the city finance
officer of the city incurring those costs.
(c) The superior court shall prepare a statement of all costs
incurred by the court for the preparation of the trial and the actual
trial of the case. The statement may not include any costs that are
incurred by the city or county pursuant to subdivision (a). The
statement shall be sent to the Administrative Office of the Courts
for approval and reimbursement.
(d) No city, county, or other jurisdiction may file, and the state
may not reimburse, a claim pursuant to this section that is
presented to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or to
any other agency or department of the state more than six months
after the close of the month in which the costs were incurred.