CA AB2083

Establishes the Foreign Private Prison Commission consisting of five members (including the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) to oversee operation and administration of private prison facilities located in Mexico housing foreign nationals convicted in California of crimes making them subject to federal deportation.

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to issue requests for proposals for private prison construction and operation in Mexico, with proposals evaluated based on cost savings, service quality equivalence to state facilities, and contractor qualifications.

Mandates the commission conduct biennial service comparisons and cost comparisons every five years; if private prison costs are lower than state costs, one-half the difference goes to the General Fund and one-half to the newly established Correctional Service Fund.

Prohibits private contractors from handling release date calculations, sentence credits, inmate discipline decisions, and other core correctional authority functions; requires daily inmate fingerprinting and removes sovereign immunity protections for contractors.

Bill becomes operative only if the United States enters into a treaty with Mexico by July 1, 2017 allowing incarceration of inmates in private prisons outside the United States.