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

Feb 25, 2025 - The proposal includes 21.6 custody positions, which would be assigned to housing units to engage with residents to build trust, rapport, and help them navigate rehabilitative opportunities at the  prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula uses the state ’s average cost to house a person in state prison to estimate the amount the state saves when such people are diverted. We find that using the marginal cost is a more reasonable approach.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This consists of (1) $77  million (growing to $132  million in 2025-26) from the previously planned deactivation of Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe, (2) $82  million from the deactivation of 42 housing units across 11 state prisons, and (3) $10  million (growing to $11  million in 2025-26) related to reduced administrative costs resulting from these and previous deactivations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The federal government does not allow Pell  Grants to be used for costs to house incarcerated  students. Assessment In this section, we provide our assessment of community college education at state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Of this amount, $ 300  m illion would be allocated to the state ’s low ‑income housing tax credit program, which provides funding to builders of low ‑income affordable housing. The remaining $ 200  m illion would target mixed ‑income projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget maintains several legislative augmentations that were made in the 2019 ‑20 Budget Act , including resources for domestic violence and sexual abuse prevention, the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, school safety communications interoperability grants, the Homeless Youth Emergency Services Housing program, and the California Health Center Security Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277