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

Feb 25, 2025 - Peer support specialists receive certification and work experience while in prison that can potentially help them gain employment in a similar field upon release. Honor Dorms. CDCR operates certain housing units as “honor dorms, ” which provide privileges and greater access to education and other programming in exchange for positive behavior.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - This would make estimates of performance more accurate and potentially more achievable for some counties. Although making this change might only result in modest changes to the statewide performance payment, compared to the Governor ’s proposal, it may have a larger impact on smaller, more rural, counties that are more affected by small changes in failure-to-prison rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - National research indicates that when postsecondary education is well designed and implemented effectively in correctional settings, it can reduce the rate of reoffending, along with increasing employment rates and wages when incarcerated students are released.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 26, 2025 - We will continue to monitor Proposition  36 implementation and the prison population and make recommendations based on the updated information available at the May Revision, including the administration ’s revised estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This includes the reversion of $8  million in unspent funds from 2023-24 for the implementation of the peace officer certification program created by Chapter  409 of 2021 (SB  2, Bradford and Atkins).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons [Publication Details]

Jul 1, 2024 - Due to legislation enacted a decade ago, the availability of postsecondary courses at state prisons has expanded significantly. In this report, we focus on California Community College programs at state prisons. After providing background on these programs, we cover trends in student outcomes and explain how these programs are funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4913

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

Feb 28, 2023 - To the extent the Legislature authorizes new lease revenue bonds for projects, we recommend the Legislature provide clear direction to the administration regarding which source of funds it intends to use to make debt service payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - The small but growing number of ZNE projects in operation nationally have shown that achieving ZNE for state and non ‑state buildings is technologically feasible. However, ZNE has not yet gained broad adoption, likely in part because there is limited information demonstrating that it can be done cost ‑effectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

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

Jan 13, 2020 - (The Governor ’s budget makes a couple of newly proposed augmentations subject to the same suspension language —together representing $ 71  m illion in costs in 2020 ‑ 21 —but makes no other changes to the programs subject to the suspensions.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget package includes statutory changes that prohibit CDTFA from making the adjustments scheduled for January 1, 2021 if the adjustments would result in higher tax rates. CDTFA would still be required to make the adjustments if they would result in lower tax rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277