The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2026 - This brief provides our analysis of the Governor’s 2026-27 budget proposals related to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5137

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - We find that the equipment and support staff requested for the program meet this threshold and recommend approving as it could help the state comply with the Coleman court ’s order to reduce vacancies and improve care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - This  results in 3,510 CARE Program petitions for review and 2,340 participants in 2023 ‑24. For  judicial branch operations, the administration assumes that a certain amount of judicial and court staff time and resources are needed to process each CARE  Program petition and case.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - For a period, the SCFCF ’s insolvency halted the judicial branch ’s construction program. However, after the fiscal difficulties facing the state subsided, the state shifted support for the construction program to the state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Proposition  47 Requires State Savings From Its Punishment Reductions to Be Spent on Specified Programs. By reducing the size of the state ’s prison population, Proposition  47 created state savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5108

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - This includes conducting background checks for people seeking to purchase firearms and ammunition, licensing firearm and ammunition vendors, and administering various other firearm and ammunition programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

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

Oct 24, 2025 - Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Program. The budget includes various adjustments to amounts provided in prior budgets to support costs for the CARE Program, which is a recently established court-based program allowing specific people to seek assistance for certain adults with severe mental illness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - Not only will interns perform work while part of the program, but it is also possible that they will become employed permanently by CDCR. However, the plans put forward by CDCR and the Receiver could go further in addressing the barriers to filling vacancies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice [Publication Details]

Oct 24, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget provides $17.3 billion from the General Fund for judicial and criminal justice programs, including support for program operations and capital outlay projects. This is a decrease of $569 million, or 3 percent, below the revised 2024-25 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5085

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor's Proposals for CDCR Operations

Feb 8, 2022 - Specifically, the resources would be used to maintain programs at the four prisons that do not currently have dedicated state funding for bachelor’s degree programs. According to the department, this is because the funding supporting those programs will no longer be available beginning in 2024‑25 (for the CSULA program) and 2022‑23 (for the three subsequently established programs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4517