5225 Corrections and Rehabilitation
Budget-Balancing Reductions
  • The Budget includes General Fund reductions of $17.9 million in 2007-08 and $378.9 million in 2008-09.

  • Programs exempted from the budget balancing reductions include Adult Medical Care Services, Division of Juvenile Justice, Corrections Standards Authority, and lease payments securing lease revenue bonds. The total exemption for these programs is $2.3 billion.

  • The major budget balancing reductions include:

    A decrease of $4.3 million and 66 positions in 2007-08 and $256.4 million and 4,194 positions in 2008-09 resulting from the release of specified non-serious, non-violent, non-sex offenders 20 months early.

    A decrease of $13.6 million and 134 positions in 2007-08 and $97.8 million and 1,660 positions in 2008-09 resulting from the placement of specified non-serious, non-violent, non-sex offenders on summary parole.

    A decrease of $24.6 million in 2008-09, comprised of $4.5 million for the Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction Grant program and $20.1 million for the Juvenile Probation and Camps Program.