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LAO and CDCR tell Senate Prop 36 could raise prison and court costs; May revision to update estimates
Summary
Legislative Analyst's Office and CDCR briefed senators that full implementation of Proposition 36 could increase state criminal justice costs by tens to low hundreds of millions annually, raise prison and parole populations by a few thousand over several years, and reduce savings from Proposition 47.
The Legislative Analyst’s Office and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the joint Senate hearing that Proposition 36 will have measurable fiscal impacts that the budget must address.
Caitlin O’Neil, principal fiscal and policy analyst with the LAO, told the committees that the office’s full‑implementation estimate assumes impacts would “ramp up” over several years. “We estimate that Proposition 36 will increase state criminal justice costs by tens of millions of dollars to low hundreds of millions of dollars annually, primarily by increasing the state prison population by around a few thousand people and increasing state court workload,” she said.
O’Neil said the measure also “reduces the state's…
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