Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Specifically, in 2022 ‑23, 1,808 CCC students at CDCR (12  percent) had earned more than 60  units. Of these students, 418 (2.7  percent) had already earned 100 or more CCC units. Just over 100 of these students had already accumulated 150 or more units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Improving California’s Prison Inmate Classification System

May 2, 2019 - Custody Designation Can Limit Access Outside of Main Perimeter and Credit Earning Rates. CDCR also uses custody designation to limit access to areas beyond the main security perimeter of the prison to inmates who pose a low escape risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4023

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, CDCR psychologists, according to the state Auditor, earn between $56 and $85 per hour —well above the average hourly rate paid in other states. According to 2023 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California is the highest paying state for psychologists with the average hourly wage at $64 per hour, whereas psychologists nationwide earned a median of $53 per hour (21  percent less).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - In the case of Unit  6, employees hired after 2013 earn a pension under the 2.5  percent at 57 formula. Under this formula, employees who work for 40 years and are older than 57 years may receive a pension that replaces 100  percent of their final compensation (defined as compensation over a 36-month period).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2020-21 Budget: Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 18, 2020 - These technologies would include a secure online portal where students could access and download academic materials and video conferencing equipment that would potentially be used to allow instructors to teach more students than would be possible in a traditional classroom environment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4164

The 2020-21 Budget: Effectively Managing State Prison Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2020 - To help determine whether additional prison closures may be warranted in the future, we recommend that the Legislature direct CDCR to estimate the likely impact of known significant changes in sentencing and credit earning rates over the next ten years both on the overall inmate population and key subpopulations, such as the number of inmates requiring high ‑security housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4186

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

Feb 22, 2024 - (Women ’s yards are not classified into different security levels as they generally have similar levels of security.) People housed in higher ‑security yards live in cells, while people housed in lower ‑security yards generally live in open dormitories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Mar 1, 2017 - For example, under the administration ’s current plans to implement Proposition  57, some inmates in inpatient psychiatric programs who were not earning good-time credits —which reduce an inmate ’s sentence for adhering to prison rules —or were earning these credits at lower rates, may become eligible to earn credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3595

State Corrections: Response to COVID-19

May 8, 2020 - However, CDCR is providing in-cell assignments and resources where possible to allow inmates to continue their studies and earn time off their prison term through sentencing credits for participating in these programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4229

The 2018-19 Budget: Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 27, 2018 - When working for IWL, inmates earn between $0.35 and $1. 00 p er hour. In addition, some IWL inmate workers participate in IWL ’s pre ‑apprenticeship program through which they earn seven weeks off of their prison sentence.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3762