SB 1295 Summary

• Authorizes use of documentary evidence to determine whether a prisoner with a severe mental disorder meets criteria for mandatory treatment by the State Department of State Hospitals as a condition of parole.

• Permits documentary evidence including preliminary hearing transcripts, trial transcripts, probation reports, and sentencing reports to establish the nature of the crime and details about force, violence, or threats used.

• Maintains existing requirements that the severe mental disorder be one of the causes or an aggravating factor in the crime, and that the prisoner received 90+ days of treatment within the year prior to parole.

• Specifies that the enumerated crimes subject to this provision include violent offenses such as voluntary manslaughter, robbery with weapons, sexual assault, arson, attempted murder, and other crimes involving force, violence, or serious threats.