Postrelease community supervision: flash incarceration: city jails.

Existing law requires that persons released from prison be subject either to parole for a specified period of time or to postrelease community supervision for a period not exceeding 3 years. Existing law specifies the conditions of postrelease community supervision and permits each county agency responsible for postrelease supervision to determine an appropriate response to alleged violations, including flash incarceration in a county jail. Existing law provides for review of an alleged parole violation and likewise allows the supervising parole agency to impose additional conditions of supervision, including flash incarceration in a county jail. Existing law defines flash incarceration for these purposes as a period of detention in a county jail ranging from one to 10 days due to a violation of an offender's conditions of release. This bill would additionally permit flash incarceration in a city jail pursuant to the above provisions. The bill would make a conforming change. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.