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

Feb 23, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 Estimated State Savings From Proposition  47 Background Proposition  47 (2014) Reduced Punishment for Certain Lower-Level Drug and Property Crimes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5108

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

Jun 12, 2025 - Specifically, the number of people incarcerated in either state prison or county jail declined by about 14,000 (7  percent) between 2014 and 2015 and by about 44,000  (22  percent) between 2019 and 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Oct 10, 2023 - As discussed earlier, Component 1 awards grants to counties based on a percentage of the county ’s highest payment between 2011 ‑12 and 2014 ‑15. There is little reason to think that the amount of savings counties are currently creating for the state through their probation practices is related to the grant amounts distributed between 2011 ‑12 and 2014 ‑15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4806

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In 2014, the state approved Chapter  695 (S B  1391 , Hancock), which opened the way for districts to provide in ‑person instruction at state prisons by allowing them to receive regular state funding for closed ‑to ‑the ‑public courses offered to incarcerated people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Recent Report Compares California Inmate Health Care Costs to Rest of Nation

Jan 18, 2018 - The report relied on state surveys completed based on data from 2014‑15. A total of 49 states responded to the survey. The report cautions that each state self-reported data, which makes it difficult to determine whether all states collected data the same way.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3733

The 2014-15 Budget: The Administration's Response to the Prison Overcrowding Order [Publication Details]

Feb 28, 2014 - The 2014-15 Budget: The Administration's Response to the Prison Overcrowding Order [Publication Details] The 2014-15 Budget: The Administration's Response to the Prison Overcrowding Order Format: HTML Description: In this report, we provide an analysis of the Governor's proposals to comply with the federal court order to reduce the state's prison population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2960

The 2016-17 Budget: Fiscal Impacts of Proposition 47

Feb 12, 2016 - LAO Comments Includes Court Costs Incurred in 2014 –15 . Of the $26.9  million in court costs identified by the administration, our analysis finds that $25  million is for workload associated with resentencing hearings that occurred in 2014 –15 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3352

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 22, 2016 - As shown in Figure  12, the level of spending on pharmaceuticals per inmate has also increased over this time period, increasing from $860 in 2004 –05 to $2,000 by 2014 –15 —an increase of over 130  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3359

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - As part of the 2014 ‑15 Budget Act , the Legislature finished paying the pre-2004 mandate claims. While Proposition  1A did not require the state to develop a plan for paying mandate claims incurred after 2004 ‑05, the state Constitution requires these claims be paid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - The temporary funding of $15  million annually for ten years was first provided as part of the 2014 ‑15 budget package, which means that it is scheduled to expire at the end of  2023 ‑24. Additionally, the 2022 ‑23 budget included $15.4  million in ongoing General Fund support for trial court facility modification projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673