Chapter 6 – Adult Classification

62090.5.1.1 Documentation Hearing

• Inmates committed for first or second degree murders that occurred on or after November 8, 1978, and inmates committed pursuant to PCPenal Code 667.51, 667.7, and 217.1 shall have a hearing prior to their minimum eligible parole date.

• The Documentation Hearing is conducted by one Deputy Commissioner. The purpose of this hearing shall be to monitor and document the institutional adjustment of each life prisoner. The inmate’s counselor shall complete a Life Prisoner Post-conviction Progress Report which covers the period of time from the inmate’s reception into CDCRCalifornia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or from the date the life term began, whichever is latter, to the hearing, if it is the first documentation hearing, or for the period from the last documentation hearing for which a Post-conviction Progress Report was prepared to the present hearing.

• The first documentation hearing shall be scheduled during the 36th month after the life term starts. Subsequent documentation hearings shall be held at three-year intervals until the Initial Parole Consideration Hearing.