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Program Enhancements and Other Budget Adjustments
Other Workload Issues
The Administration continues to take steps to address various operational needs of the Department. In an effort to build upon last year's successes, the Budget includes additional resources for facility maintenance and repair, substance abuse treatment, staff training, and other critical areas. Through an expert panel established this year to review programming efforts in adult institutions, the Department will also seek to implement cost-effective enhancements to inmate programming.
FACILITY MAINTENANCE AND EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT
There is a pressing need for additional resources to address critical facility repairs. This need is exacerbated because the population is at an all-time high, and the loss of capacity resulting from failures to maintain the facilities only increases overcrowding in other areas. The Governor's Budget proposes $46 million General Fund to augment CDCR's $190.1 million baseline budget for maintenance and special repairs. This funding provides for the establishment of regional heating ventilation and air conditioning maintenance teams, the maintenance of transformers, generators and high-voltage switchgear, strike teams to undertake ongoing preventative maintenance for facility roofs, electric fence system repairs and replacement, repair and replacement of roads and parking lots, and other critical facility maintenance issues. These repairs will help ensure the safety and security of the staff, public, and inmates, and prevent the loss of critical housing options.
In addition to facility maintenance and repairs, the Budget includes $23 million for statewide major equipment purchases, including telephone system repairs and upgrades, replacement of trunked radio systems infrastructure, and replacement of buses. This augmentation will increase the Department's base budget for major equipment to $76.7 million.
RESIDENTIAL AFTERCARE AND DRUG TREATMENT FURLOUGH
To comply with the provisions of Chapter 875, Statutes of 2006 (SB 1453), the Budget includes an augmentation of $1.3 million in 2007-08 for mandatory residential aftercare programs. Chapter 875 requires non-serious, non-violent inmates who have completed an in-prison drug treatment program to enter a 150-day aftercare drug treatment program and to be discharged from parole upon successful completion of the program. Because the Department's base budget contained funds for voluntary aftercare services for serious and violent and non-serious, non-violent inmates that were not being fully utilized, implementation of Chapter 875 can be achieved largely through the redirection of existing funds. The Budget provides funding for 5,500 residential aftercare beds for non-serious, non-violent offenders.
The Budget includes $10.9 million General Fund in 2007-08 to support 426 Drug Treatment Furlough beds that had previously been funded with voluntary aftercare dollars. Because the aftercare dollars will no longer be available, the Budget fully funds the currently-occupied Drug Treatment Furlough beds. These funds are reflected in the 2007-08 costs for adult population changes.
REDUCING RECIDIVISM
The Budget builds on the 2006-07 investment of $52.8 million for recidivism reduction and community reintegration activities by providing a total of $93.9 million to continue the implementation of various program enhancements. These programs include educational needs assessments and substance abuse program expansions in institutions, structured re-entry services such as mandatory conditions of parole, and community reintegration programs including residential services for parolees, day reporting centers, and increased clinical services for mentally ill parolees.
EXPERT PANEL ON ADULT PRISON PROGRAMMING AND TREATMENT
As the result of funding provided in the 2005-06 Budget, the Department established an expert panel on prison programming and treatment. This panel, comprised of nationwide practitioners, consultants, and researchers, is charged with evaluating the Department's approach to providing inmate programming and treatment. The panel will make recommendations on programs that show promise and should be expanded, as well as on programs that are ineffective and should be discontinued. Through these efforts, the Department hopes to propose a balanced, cost-effective, and evidence-based approach to increasing programming levels within adult institutions.
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