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Prison reforms and cuts left uncertain in final California budget deal

By Douglas A. Berman

Though the details seem murky, it appeals from this local article that California's budget deal, which was finalized late Friday, included some unspecified prison reforms and cuts.  Here are the opaque details: Of the $25 billion in budget "solutions," $15.5 billion come by way of cuts, with schools ($6 billion) taking the biggest hit. The University of California and California State University systems will be slashed by $2.8 billion; MediCal services are facing a $1.3 billion hit; corrections departments are facing an unspecified $1.2 billion in cuts; and three major welfare programs ? the welfare-to-work CalWORKs program, In-Home Supportive Services and the children's health insurance program ? stand to lose a total of $878 million. The rest ? about $10 billion ? is achieved through one-time raids on local government funding (for a total of $3...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 25, 2009 (boomark / email).