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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR sought the project in order to (1)  replace 34 unlicensed MHCBs at CIM with licensed beds and (2)  reduce the amount of time it takes to transfer people in Southern California prisons to MHCBs by adding 16 MHCBs in the region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - These costs will be shifted to 2025-26 ($16  million) and 2026-27 ($11  million). $15  million reduced beginning in 2024-25 and ongoing associated with various administrative positions and contract funding that are no longer needed. $8.5  million reduced from 2023-24 (growing to $22.6  million annually in 2025-26) to reflect a reduction in annual training for correctional officers from 48
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Degree Earners Tend to Take a Long Time to Graduate. Community colleges typically report graduation rates by cohort over a three ‑year or four ‑year period. For incarcerated students, the graduation rate over these periods is very low —less than 5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - In other words, for every $1 spent on cash financing, the state reduces its future debt payments by a total of $2. (Over the long term, inflation will erode the real cost of these payments, which are fixed in nominal terms once the bonds are issued, resulting in inflation-adjusted costs of about $1.40 for each $ 1 borrowed.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula has three different payments: (1)  a performance payment, (2)  a maintenance payment, and (3)  a minimum guarantee payment. These payments would determine each county ’s total SB  678 grant award.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031