Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Specifically, we recommend the Chancellor ’s Office be required to report: the number of incarcerated FTE students served, broken out by instructional modality; course success rates, also broken out by instructional modality; term ‑to ‑term persistence rates; share of first ‑year cohorts that pass college ‑level math and English; and program completion rates (such as earning an associate degree or certificate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This is a net increase of $5  million (3  percent) over the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 25, 2025 - In addition, the project and implementation team indicates that after identifying the recommendations that will be pursued, it plans to engage stakeholders at the prison —such as rehabilitative program providers —in workgroups for further planning activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - However, based on discussions, it is our understanding that the administration used the number of people that were admitted to prison for drug possession and certain lower level theft crimes in 2013-14, the year before Proposition  47 reduced prison admissions for these crimes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Apr 11, 2025 - We find that these steps would allow the state to better assess the actual state savings generated, preserve the formula ’s fiscal incentives, and continue sharing state savings with counties at a level the Legislature finds appropriate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - (This backfill maintains funding provided by these fines and fees at the 2013-14 revenue collection level.) This is a $23.4  million decrease from the revised 2023-24 backfill level. Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Importantly, without this level of detail, whether t he fund has sufficient capacity to support the debt service is unclear. If there is insufficient budget capacity, then approving the bonds could force the state to reduce programmatic activities supported by the fund and/or increase the taxes or fees supporting the fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709