The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - GO-SERVE oversees three notable programs: the California Volunteers, the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications (OCPSC), and the Youth Empowerment Commission. The spending plan includes $225  million for the office in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - The mental health care provided at the prisons is subject to the oversight of a Special Master appointed as part of the Coleman v. Newsom federal court case, which ruled in 1995 that CDCR was not providing constitutionally adequate mental health care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - In addition, the budget package includes language that would allow the Department of Finance to make payments from the General Fund for any fines related to staffing vacancies in the Coleman v. Newsom court case related to the provision of prison mental health care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Even those confined to life sentences shared that a CCC education had been beneficial in various ways, including by allowing them to serve as mentors to younger incarcerated persons and inspiring family members on the outside to go to college.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913