The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - Some of the major augmentations include: $32  million in 2025-26 (increasing to $42.9  million annually beginning in 2029-30) to adjust the budgeted amount for parole rehabilitation programs in a way that more closely aligns with inflationary cost growth. $20  million one time to continue the Rehabilitative Investment Grants for Healing and Transformation program that expands
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - As shown in Figure  11 , in  2018 ‑19, arrests per attorney in 25 of 32 district attorney offices clustered between 201 to 400. Arrests per attorney in public defender offices reflected greater variation across counties, with 24 of 32 public defender offices reporting ranging between 201 to 500 arrests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

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

Jun 12, 2025 - Subsequently, between 2021 and 2023, retail theft increased by 32  percent. Over the entire ten ‑year period —2014 to 2023 —reported retail theft increased by 48 crimes per 100,000  people, or 11  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

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

Feb 22, 2024 - Background State Currently Operating 32 Prisons. As of January  17,  2024, CDCR was responsible for incarcerating a total of about 93,900   people —89 ,100  men, 4,200 women, and 600  nonbinary people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - Department of Justice The budget provides $1.3  billion for the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2023- 24 —an increase of $32  million (3  percent) from the revised 2022-23 level. This amount includes $490  million from the General Fund —a net increase of $8  million (2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - For example, with the deactivation of DVI, the state was able to avoid a water ‑treatment project —projected in 2018 to cost $32   million —that would have been necessary to comply with drinking water standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686

The 2022-23 Budget: Department of Justice Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - The Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 budget includes $52  million to support BOF —$20  million from the General Fund and $32  million from various special funds. (We  note that the 2021 ‑22 budget included a one ‑time $10.3  million General Fund augmentation for grants to county sheriff offices to assist with the removal of firearms and ammunition from prohibited  persons.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4527

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - This means that the average retiring correctional officer was hired at the age of 32 years. In the early and mid-2000s, the state hired a large number of new correctional officers. This created a cohort of correctional officers of a similar age.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Promoting Equity in the Parole Hearing Process

Jan 5, 2023 - This includes about 700 people (1  percent) sentenced to death; 5,100 (5  percent) sentenced to LWOP; 31,000 (32  percent) with indeterminate sentences; and 59,000 (62  percent) with determinate sentences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4658

Improving Parolee Substance Use Disorder Treatment Through Medi-Cal

Apr 14, 2021 - CDCR has estimated that out of the total inmate population of about 112, 000 i nmates in 2019 ‑20, 67  p ercent had a substance use disorder and 32  p ercent could potentially benefit from MAT. CDCR ‑Funded Contracts Provide SUDT to Parolees As previously mentioned, people released from prison after serving a term for a serious or violent offense are generally supervised in the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4411