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

Apr 11, 2025 - Additionally, the administration ind icates it does not anticipate proposing future changes to the baseline. This means it would not be adjusted for policy changes such as Proposition  36 (2024). Proposition  36 increased punishment for various theft and drug crimes, which could make it easier for people to fail-to-prison while on county felony supervision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - DRP ‑TV ’s education channel televises college course content for students who are enrolled in correspondence classes. Internet and Wi ‑Fi Connectivity. The state provides $5  million ongoing funding for students to have access to Wi ‑Fi in common areas of a prison, such as day rooms, dining halls, gyms, libraries, and classrooms.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget permanently shifts DCC costs for illicit enforcement activities and the California Track-and-Trace program from the Cannabis Control Fund (CCF) —which receives revenues from fees paid by cannabis businesses —to the Cannabis Tax Fund (CTF) —which receives revenues from cannabis sales taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 26, 2025 - The administration projects Proposition  47 savings to decline to $30.5  million in 2025-26 (which will be the first full fiscal year with Proposition  36 in effect) and $24.7  million in 2026-27 —representing an overall $70  million (74  percent) decline relative to 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - People with lower security concerns are placed in low ‑custody ICFs, which are in dorms, while those with higher security concerns are placed in high ‑custody ICFs, which are in cells. There are 722 ICF beds in state prisons, 658 of which are high ‑custody ICF beds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget includes a one-time reduction of $25  million in 2024-25 and $10  million in 2025-26 to the General Fund backfill of the Restitution Fund, which primarily supports the Victim Compensation Board.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Feb 28, 2023 - (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