The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - Concerns With DROS Special Account Insolvency Led to Greater Use of General Fund … As shown in Figure  2, support for BOF followed a fee-based funding structure through 2018-19, with all BOF costs supported by special funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - On May 19, 2025, the administration notified the Legislature that CDCR was projected to exceed its 2024 ‑25 budget by about $358  million and requested reappropriations of previously unspent funds from prior years to address this shortfall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - Specifically, the 2018 ‑19 budget included $1.3  billion in lease revenue bond authority backed by the General Fund —rather than the SCFCF —to finance ten previously planned projects. This commitment effectively backfilled the $1.4  billion transferred from the SCFCF to the General Fund to help address the state ’s budget condition between 2009 ‑10 and 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

The 2026-27 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 23, 2026 - Figure 1 Administration Projects Decrease in Proposition 47 Savings Due to Proposition 36 2023 ‑24
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5108

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - As shown in the figure, the prison population is projected to decrease by about 200 (less than 1  percent) from 91,400 in 2024-25 to 91,200 in 2025-26. The parole population is projected to decrease by about 500 (1  percent) from 34,700 in 2024-25 to 34,200 in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Judicial Branch Actions Responding to COVID-19

May 6, 2020 - Local Rules of Court adopted by trial courts to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will become effective immediately. (Existing law generally requires local rules to go into effect on January  1 or July 1 of each year and only after 45 days of public comment have occurred.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4227

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, it could (1)  make it easier to recruit staff located in areas with a wider pool of applicants, (2)  reduce the need for mental health staff at locations with large vacancies, and (3)  reduce the competition for mental health staff among adjacent facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

State Corrections: Response to COVID-19

May 8, 2020 - As of May 7 2020 there was 1 COVID-19 related inmate death and 447 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among inmates, including 23 inmates who have since recovered. In addition, self-reported data indicate that 169 staff members tested positive for COVID-19 (166 prison staff members and 3 staff members at juvenile facilities).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4229

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - About half of this decline occurred between 2019 and 2020, suggesting that factors such as temporary stay ‑at ‑home orders and closure of nonessential retail businesses in the early part of the COVID ‑19 pandemic likely contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - COVID‑19 Health Care Costs Background COVID ‑19 Had Major Impact on CDCR. Between the start of the pandemic and January  28, 2024, a total of about 96,000 COVID ‑19 cases have been reported by CDCR as occurring within prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852