Chapter 7 – Adult Case Records Information

73030.7.10 EnhancementsPrior Prison Terms

• Pursuant to PCPenal Code 667.5 (g), a prior prison term (PPT) is a prior felony conviction which resulted in a continuous completed period of prison incarceration imposed for a particular offense alone, or in combination with CCCorrectional Counselor or CSControl Services sentences received before release on parole or discharge, whichever occurs first.

  • If the person was returned to prison on revocation of parole, which is not accompanied by a new commitment to prison, the period shall count as a single PPT.

  • If any inprison offense is required by law to be served after completion of an earlier prison commitment, the original commitment and the inprison commitment count as separate PPT’s.

  • If the inmate was returned to prison from parole with a new term, the new term shall count as a second PPT.

  • A commitment to DMHDepartment of Mental Health (see Department of State Hospitals DSH) as a mentally disordered sex offender (MDSO) following a felony conviction is a PPT if the commitment exceeds one year. If the inmate subsequently is committed to prison for the same offense after termination of the MDSO commitment the time in DMHDepartment of Mental Health (see Department of State Hospitals DSH) and CDC shall count as a single PPT.

  • When an inmate subject to the custody, control, and discipline of the Director is incarcerated at a facility operated by the CYASee Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), that incarceration shall count as a prior prison term.

• Time spent in any state or federal penal institution, including any time which is credited as service of prison time in that jurisdiction may count as a prior prison term. If served other than in California, the inmate must have actually served at least one year, and it must have been for a crime that is punishable by imprisonment in state prison in California.

• A violent PPT with a violent commitment offense shall be enhanced by three years for each pled and proved PPT, unless the inmate remained free of both prison custody and the commission of an offense which results in a felony conviction for a period of 10 years immediately preceding the commission of the current commitment offense. (Violent felonies are defined in PCPenal Code 667.5(c).)