The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released a budget and
policy post
State Corrections: Response to COVID-19. In this post, the
LAO gives an update on COVID-19 staff and inmate cases within the
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR)
and lays out changes that CDCR has implemented for prisons,
parole and the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to reduce the
exposure of COVID-19 for offenders and staff.
As CSAC has previously shared, a couple of those changes include
the suspension of intake for inmates sentenced to state prison or
DJJ until May 22 and the expedited release of approximately 3,500
offenders. The report also discusses the court oversight of the
state’s response to COVID-19 that includes a brief explanation of
the earlier Coleman v. Newsom and Plata v.
Newsom court cases and how they relate to the COVID-19
pandemic and efforts of CDCR. Full details of the post can
be found
here.
