(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall regularly provide operational and fiscal information to the Legislature to allow it to better assess the performance of the department in critical areas of operations, including to both evaluate the effectiveness of department programs and activities, as well as assess how efficiently the department is using state resources.
(b) No later than January 10 of each year, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee operational and fiscal information to be displayed in the Governor’s proposed budget. This information shall include data for the three most recently ended fiscal years, and shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) Per capita costs, average daily population, and offender to staff ratios for each of the following:
(A) Adult inmates housed in state prisons.
(B) Adult inmates housed in Community Correctional Facilities and out-of-state facilities.
(C) Adult parolees supervised in the community.
(D) Juvenile wards housed in state facilities.
(E) Juvenile parolees supervised in the community.
(2) Total expenditures and average daily population for each adult and juvenile institution.
(3) Number of established positions and percent of those positions vacant on June 30 for each of the following classifications within the department:
(A) Correctional officer.
(B) Correctional sergeant.
(C) Correctional lieutenant.
(D) Parole agent.
(E) Youth correctional counselor.
(F) Youth correctional officer.
(G) Physician.
(H) Registered nurse.
(I) Psychiatrist.
(J) Psychologist.
(K) Dentist.
(L) Teacher.
(M) Vocational instructor.
(N) Licensed vocational nurse.
(4) Average population of juvenile wards classified by board category.
(5) Average population of adult inmates classified by security level.
(6) Average population of adult parolees classified by supervision level.
(7) Number of new admissions from courts, parole violators with new terms, and parole violators returned to custody.
(8) Number of probable cause hearings, revocation hearings, and parole suitability hearings conducted.
(9) For both adult and juvenile facilities, the number of budgeted slots, actual enrollment, and average daily attendance for institutional academic and vocational education and substance abuse programs.
(10) Average population of mentally ill offenders classified by Correctional Clinical Case Management System or Enhanced Outpatient Program status, as well as information about mentally ill offenders in more acute levels of care.
(c) No later than January 10 of each year, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee a supplemental report containing operational and fiscal information in addition to data provided in subdivision (b). To the extent possible and relevant, the department shall seek to keep the categories of information provided the same each year so as to provide consistency. This report shall contain information for the three most recently ended fiscal years, and shall include, but is not limited to, data on the operational level and outcomes associated with the following categories:
(1) Adult prison security operations, including use of disciplinary measures and special housing assignments such as placements in administrative segregation, Security Housing Units, and sensitive needs yards, identifying these placements by offender categories such as security level and mental health classification.
(2) Adult prison education and treatment programs, including academic education, vocational training, prison industries, substance abuse treatment, and sex offender treatment.
(3) Adult prison health care operations, including medical, mental, and dental health.
(4) Adult parole operations, including number of discharges from parole supervision and provision of various treatment and sanction programs.
(5) Board of Parole Hearings, including the total number of parole suitability hearings scheduled for inmates serving life sentences each year, the number of parole suitability hearings postponed each year and the reasons for postponement, and the backlog of parole suitability hearings.
(5.1) Board of Parole Hearings, including the total number of adult parole revocation cases with probable cause hearings scheduled each year, the percent of parole revocation cases with probable cause hearings held within 10 business days, as well as the percent of adult parole revocation cases completed within 35 calendar days.
(6) Juvenile institution security operations, including use of disciplinary measures and special housing assignments such as special management programs, as well as the impact of time that adds or cuts the length of confinement.
(7) Juvenile institutional education and treatment programs, including academic education, vocational training, substance abuse treatment, and sex offender treatment.
(8) Juvenile institutional health care operations, including medical, mental, and dental health.
(9) Juvenile parole operations, including the number of juvenile parolees returned to state institutions and provision of various treatment and sanction programs.
(9.1) Juvenile Parole Board, including juvenile parole revocation hearings.
(d) To the extent any of the information in subdivision (b) or (c) falls under the purview of the federally appointed receiver over medical care services, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall, to the best of its ability, coordinate with the receiver in obtaining this information.
(Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 175, Sec. 7. Effective August 24, 2007.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018