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House Appropriations reviews Department of Corrections FY26 budget, highlights staffing and one‑time cuts
Summary
House Appropriations received the Department of Corrections FY26 executive budget, which recommends $768.5 million in state funding for DOC programs and highlights staffing shortages, vacancy counts and large reductions in one‑time acquisitions and major repairs.
The House Committee on Appropriations on April 7 reviewed the Department of Corrections’ recommended FY26 executive budget and heard officials describe staffing shortages, population trends and large one‑time spending reductions.
The committee heard that “the Department of Corrections is recommended to have 768,500,000 in the total budget,” Zion Wilson of the House Fiscal Division said as he opened the presentation. He told the committee the budget relies heavily on state general fund and concentrates spending in incarceration programs.
Wilson said the fiscal package lists $707,700,000 in state general fund, which makes up roughly 92.1% of DOC’s proposed budget, and described a $1.2 billion total for combined adult and juvenile correctional costs. He also reported an operational population snapshot: “as of April 2, there were 13,950 offenders…
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