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

Feb 23, 2026 - Receiver Has Greater Authority Than Special Master. The establishment of the mental health Receivership led to the dissolution of the Special Master. The Receiver differs from the Special Master in that a Receiver has direct executive authority and acts in place of the Secretary of CDCR in regard to the management of prison mental health.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch [Publication Details]

Feb 11, 2026 - This brief provides an overview of the proposed funding for the judicial branch in 2026-27. It also analyzes the Governor’s budget proposals related to court construction and facility modification projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5113

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - In addition, it proposes $47.6  million one ‑time General Fund for the continuation of the following construction projects: $18.1  million reappropriation of funds for the performance criteria phase of the New Fresno Courthouse project, which had been delayed due to an extended site selection process. $14.1  million for the construction phase of projects to build out two
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The new formula has three main components.  The components are: (1)  a  base allocation linked to enrollment (about 70  percent of formula funding),  (2)  a supplemental allocation linked to low ‑income student counts (about 20  percent of formula funding), and (3)  a student success allocation linked to specified student outcomes (about 10  percent of formula funding).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - This also means that the agreement will expire, and the administration presumably will begin negotiating a new MOU, before the February 1, 2026 date when Section 19826 of the Government Code requires CalHR to submit to the Legislature a new compensation study for Unit  6.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The Legislature, however, might consider more targeted initiatives linked with specific goals. For example, it could link any one ‑time workforce funding to helping with a transition to a new child care reimbursement rate system and/or higher minimum program standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

State Correctional Spending Increased Despite Significant Population Reductions

Feb 4, 2020 - However, if the inmate population did not decrease and the state complied exclusively by expanding prison capacity, CDCR spending would be significantly higher than it is today. This is because the state would have had to finance the construction of several new prisons or contract for tens of thousands of prison beds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4145

Improving California’s Prison Inmate Classification System

May 2, 2019 - However, research suggests that the risk of sexual reoffending decreases markedly with time that offenders remain sex offense free in the community. Specifical ly, some individuals who have committed a sex offense in the past but are not committing new sex offenses eventually become less likely to commit a sex offense than an offender with no history of sexual offending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4023

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

Mar 1, 2017 - The MSF is surrounded by an eight foot tall chain link fence topped with 30 inches of coiled razor wire. The loops of razor wire come within approximately six feet of the ground. Governor ’s Proposal The Governor ’s budget proposes a one-time General Fund augmentation of $299,000 to modify the MSF chain link fence in order to raise the clearance of the razor wire by two feet.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3595