Blog #10

My CP's funding comes directly from the state. It is hard to have a good amount of funding for my CP just like any other state department due to the fact that the State of California is really broke. Every year the governor sits down and goes over the budget. My CP does try and cut down costs by layoffs and other measures. Recently my CP has decided for next year to:



Reduce CDCR's annual budget by more than $1.5 billion upon full implementation, including $160 million dollars in savings from closing the California Rehabilitation Center;
Eliminate $4.1 billion in construction projects that are no longer needed because of population reductions;
Eliminate $2.2 billion annually that would have been spent had Realignment not been implemented;
Return all out-of-state inmates to California by 2016 to bring back jobs and manage offenders closer to home while saving millions in taxpayer dollars;
Satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court's order to lower the state's prison population;
Satisfy the federal courts that CDCR has achieved and maintained constitutional levels of medical, mental health and dental care to avoid costly oversight;
Incorporate a standardized staffing formula to better manage staff levels and cost;
Improve the classification system to provide proper inmate housing placement and reduce the reliance on costly high-security facilities.