The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, at a $3.6  million annual cost for SQRC alone, this additional staffing could cost around $100  million annually to implement statewide —particularly notable given the multiyear deficits facing the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - 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. Furthermore, of the 15,500  incarcerated CCC students enrolled in 2022 ‑23, 905 (5.8  percent) already had earned an associate degree in a prior year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - While these proposals include some larger amounts, 95  p ercent of them —accounting for half of proposed spending —cost less than $ 100  m illion in 2020 ‑21. Put simply, the Governor ’s budget aims to address a large array of proposals, across many issue areas, with relatively small dollar amounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135