The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

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The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/5

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - COVID‑19 Health Care Costs Background COVID ‑19 Had Major Impact on CDCR. Between the start of the pandemic and January  28, 2024, a total of about 96,000 COVID ‑19 cases have been reported by CDCR as occurring within prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4460

The 2024-25 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4849

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - About half of this decline occurred between 2019 and 2020, suggesting that factors such as temporary stay ‑at ‑home orders and closure of nonessential retail businesses in the early part of the COVID ‑19 pandemic likely contributed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2023-24 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703

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

Feb 8, 2022 - We acknowledge that CDCR will need additional funding in 2022 ‑23 for COVID ‑19 response. However, at the time of this analysis, the department was not able to provide sufficient information to justify the estimated COVID ‑19 direct response costs of $425  million in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4517

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

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - However, CDCR indicates that it is not planning further capacity reductions at this time because (1)  there is a need to maintain flexibility within the system (such as having adequate quarantine space to continue managing COVID ‑19 within prisons) and (2)  population projections are fairly uncertain in out ‑years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686