{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-243.15","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 243.15","heading":"","body":"Every person confined in, sentenced to, or serving a sentence in, a city or county jail, industrial farm, or industrial road camp in this state, who commits a battery upon the person of any individual who is not himself or herself a person confined or sentenced therein, is guilty of a public offense and is subject to punishment by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, or in a county jail for not more than one year.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 8. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON [187. - 248.]","CHAPTER 9. Assault and Battery [240. - 248.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"cc2c6a67e1779874229135a2aaf431bf36ef7b4e4d815a8c91f917a931fd4919","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-243.10","next":"us-ca/pen-244"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}