Finance & Budgets
Effective finance and budget management is critical for the smooth operation of correctional facilities. This directory offers articles and resources on budgeting strategies, financial planning, and resource allocation within the correctional system. Understanding how to manage finances and budgets helps facility administrators ensure that funds are used efficiently and that essential programs and operations are adequately supported. For more insights into funding, explore our section on Corrections Grants.
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GEO Group leaders say the demand for secure housing and monitoring services is growing under the Trump administration’s new federal policies
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget amendment would allow closures with just 90 days’ notice
The prison budget still falls $2.6 million short of estimates of what the prison system will cost the state next year
Corrections officer, supervisors rack up millions of hours in paid time off
Prisoners who are released will have already had a parole date and have completed rehabilitation programs
Now a judicial panel must consider setting loose a man with a shocking record of sexual assaults going back to 1969
Corrections center staff fear budget cuts will reduce safety
Budget is the primary reason Judge Jerry H. Ritter stopped the program
The county currently charges cities $70 for each day someone spends in jail after being charged with breaking a local law
Employees union spokesman says some of the cuts would have a big impact on public safety
The local prison board is weighing the ban as a cost-cutting measure
Gov. Jerry Brown’s ambitious plan for balancing his state’s budget includes moving parole services to county control and dismantling the DJJ
Elected city officials finalized an unusual loan to the Los Angeles Police Department that will reduce the number of police officers used to staff a new jail.
Staff fear the governor may outsource their jobs to private companies to save money
All male inmates are currently being housed in the former gymnasium
Investigation will examine whether prison officials are using cars for personal use and whether they should have cars at all
Spending on inmate healthcare has gone up in the state, but without significantly improving conditions for sick and injured convicts
The contract for the first phase of the $356 million death row complex at San Quentin State Prison until Feb. 9
The department has sought ideas for lowering prison costs, but any attempts at privatizing services will likely generate opposition
Gov. Jerry Brown’s new plan to send thousands of low-risk convicts, and all youth offenders, to county lockups is being hailed by many as an idea whose time has come
Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan is aimed at saving the state money, reducing overcrowded prisons and attempting to better handle juveniles and low-level offenders
Some now say state should scale back $7.4 billion plan
There are now more than three times more seriously mentally ill individuals in jails and prisons in this country than in hospitals
Where we are, where we were, where we are going
Officials hope outsourcing the county jails’ nursing duties to a private agency will save a few million dollars
John Kasich, who beat incumbent Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland last month, said locking up offenders who have committed “relatively minor crimes” in costly state prisons “doesn’t make sense to me.”
Corrections Department says it expects to save $120,000 each year by replacing self-serve cafeteria juice fountains with juice boxes.
Gov.-elect Rick Scott, who takes office Jan. 4, has said that his prison plan does not include closing prisons, changing sentencing laws or releasing prisoners.
Plan to shutter the Preston Youth Correctional Facility in rural Ione Amador County is attempt to close huge budget gap
New transparency rules allow access to judicial-branch spending on personnel. Some statewide data remain incomplete
The number of fraudulent payments to inmates has climbed 37 percent since 2004
Lawmakers blamed for increased spending and offender population increases