State Spending Soars to Historic Levels Amid Reorganization of California's Youth Correctional System / Maureen Washburn.
In January, California Governor Gavin Newsom released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020-21 and included a substantial increase in spending for the state's dangerous and prison-like youth correctional institutions, currently known as the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) (CJCJ, 2019; DOF...
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| Summary: | In January, California Governor Gavin Newsom released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020-21 and included a substantial increase in spending for the state's dangerous and prison-like youth correctional institutions, currently known as the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) (CJCJ, 2019; DOF, 2020a). This proposed increase coincides with a planned reorganization of DJJ, which will transfer responsibility for the four state-run youth correctional facilities from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the state's prison system, into the California Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) (DOF, 2019; 2020a). This fact sheet finds: (1) the DJJ budget would increase by nearly $100 million amid a planned reorganization of the state youth correctional system (FY 2020-21 vs. FY 2018-19); (2) DJJ would cost taxpayers a record-setting $336,021 per youth in FY 2020-21, which is more than six times the cost of a year at Stanford University; (3) DJJ's workforce would exceed 1,400 positions in FY 2020-21, a 31 percent increase over FY 2018-19 staffing levels. While staff would far outnumber young people in the institutions (1.6 staff for every one youth), the number of staff that have direct contact with youth is comparatively low; and (4) reliance on DJJ varies widely across California, with 17 counties sending no youth to the state system and 14 counties having fewer than five youth at DJJ as of December 2019. |
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| Item Description: | Availability: Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. 54 Dore Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Tel: 415-621-5661; e-mail: cjcj@cjcj.org; Web site: http://www.cjcj.org. Abstractor: ERIC. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (6 pages) |
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| Preferred Citation of Described Materials Note: | Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. |