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New CBP Report Looks at State Corrections Spending After Realignment
In 2011, state policymakers transferred responsibility and funding for public safety and other services from the state to the counties. A major part of this “realignment” was that counties assumed...
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Fewer State Prisoners, Higher Cost Per Inmate
California’s prisons, once bulging at the seams, have slimmed down considerably since counties took responsibility for housing and supervising certain low-level offenders as part of a state-to-county...
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State Leaders Agree to Boost Prison Capacity — but Hope It Won’t Be Needed
California is fast approaching a December 31 deadline set by a three-judge federal court to reduce the state prison population to 137.5 percent of the system’s capacity, a level equal to about 112,000...
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Don’t Miss These Workshops on Housing, School Funding, State Corrections and...
This week is your last chance to register in advance for the CBP’s 2014 annual conference, Raising the Bar: How Smart Policy Choices Can Create Shared Prosperity in California, on March 6 in...
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Bending the Prison Cost Curve
Budgets, as we like to say at the CBP, are not just about dollars and cents. At a fundamental level, budgets express our values and priorities as a state. The choices we make through the state budget...
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Does California Need More Jail Construction Funding?
Last week the Assembly budget subcommittee on public safety approved the Governor’s proposal to provide $500 million in lease-revenue bond financing for the construction of county jails. These funds...
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Twitter Chat With the CBP on Corrections Spending: July 22
California’s new state budget continues the persistent trend of higher state spending on corrections, despite a declining crime rate and an anticipated drop in the state prison population in the coming...
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Proposition 47 Would Continue Trend Toward Local Public Safety Solutions
Yesterday the CBP released an analysis of Proposition 47, “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,” which will appear on the November 4 statewide ballot. The measure would reclassify seven categories...
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Parental Incarceration Is Bad for Children’s Health
“Family unity and stability have profound impacts on children’s lifelong health,” according to a health impact assessment of Proposition 47 released today by Human Impact Partners (HIP), a nonprofit...
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California Reduces Disparities in Drug Sentencing Laws
This past weekend Governor Brown announced that he had signed Senate Bill 1010 into law, eliminating the disparity between sentences for possession of crack cocaine and powder cocaine for sale in...
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Today We Honor Our Veterans, but What About Tomorrow?
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have exposed over two million Americans to the rigors of military training as well as to warfare conditions. A new study of veterans in Los Angeles found that many...
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Tried and Tested Ways of Reducing Jail Overcrowding
On November 4, California voters approved Proposition 47, a measure that downgrades certain low-level offenses to misdemeanors, thereby limiting the sentence for those crimes to a maximum of one year...
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