Inmates: identification cards.

Existing law provides that after inmates are released from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, they are placed on parole, as specified. This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a pilot program at Folsom State Prison and at California State Prison, Los Angeles County for the purpose of providing each inmate at those facilities, prior to his or her release, a valid California identification card, as defined, issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) . This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the DMV, to allow the DMV to make biannual visits to the department's facilities to provide state-issued identification cards to inmates upon their release and to inmates who are eligible to be released or released on parole within 6 months. This bill would specify the department's duties in providing and obtaining the information necessary for eligible inmates to obtain identification cards. This bill would make its provisions operative on January 1, 2011.