The 2024-25 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 20, 2024 - These temporary increases have been caused in the following two ways: Increased Credit Earning.  Proposition  57 expanded the authority of CDCR to reduce people ’s sentences through credits. People earn credits through maintaining good behavior and participating in rehabilitation programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4849

The 2023-24 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 23, 2023 - These temporary increases have been caused in the following two ways: Increased Credit Earning. Proposition  57 expanded the authority of CDCR to reduce people ’s sentences through credits. People earn credits through maintaining good behavior and participating in rehabilitation programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - (CalHR informs us that the state briefly contributed a small specified dollar amount to excluded employees ’ Savings Plus accounts in the early 2000s.) In 2017, we issued a report evaluating the Savings Plus program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2017‑18 Budget: Implementation of Proposition 57

Apr 6, 2017 - To the extent that such an alternative approach reduces the time nonviolent offenders serve in prison by two months, we estimate that this approach could potentially result in several millions of dollars in savings annually relative to the Governor ’s proposal depending on the actual number of offenders approved for parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3648

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

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

The 2021-22 Budget: State Correctional Population Outlook

Nov 19, 2020 - For example, the department increased the maximum amount of time most violent offenders can earn off their sentences for good behavior from 15 p ercent to 20  p ercent. In addition, at the time of the Governor ’s May Revision for 2020 ‑21, CDCR announced plans to further reduce certain inmates ’ prison terms through credits inmates earn for good behavior.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4304

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

Jun 12, 2025 - For example, in May 2021, CDCR modified its regulations to allow people with convictions for violent crimes to earn up to 33.3  percent off of their sentence (an increase from 20  percent) for maintaining good behavior.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

Improving California’s Prison Inmate Classification System

May 2, 2019 - Accordingly, CDCRs overly expansive exclusions on camp eligibly—which have contributed to the roughly 1,000 vacant camp beds—could be costing the state tens of millions of dollars annually in unnecessary expenditures on contract beds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4023

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - Figure 1 Department of Justice Budget Summary (Dollars in Millions) Litigation Deposit Fund Background Litigation Deposit Fund (LDF) Receives Certain State Litigation Proceeds. The LDF is a state special fund that receives litigation proceeds —or monies required by settlement agreements or court judgements to resolve legal cases —in cases where the state is a party to the case
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831