Budget and Taxes Criminal Legal System Reform Ray Khalfani Reports Overview: 2025 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections February 20, 2024 / February 20, 2024 by Ray Khalfani For Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, Governor Brian Kemp proposed a $1.48 billion budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), an agency overseeing the state’s prison system. The FY 2025 proposed budget is nearly $153 million higher than what was approved initially for FY 2024. This increase is primarily attributed to cost-of-living adjustments […] Read more » corrections legal system
Budget and Taxes Criminal Legal System Reform Ray Khalfani Reports Overview: 2024 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections February 20, 2023 / February 20, 2023 by Ray Khalfani For Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a $1.32 billion budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), an agency charged with overseeing the state’s prison system. These latest fiscal- year-to-fiscal-year increases, totaling nearly $38 million, are primarily attributed to the creation of four new divisions within the GDC: County Correctional […] Read more » corrections legal system
Budget and Taxes Criminal Legal System Reform Ray Khalfani Reports Overview: 2023 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections February 16, 2022 / February 17, 2022 by Ray Khalfani For Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a $1.27 billion budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), an agency charged with overseeing the state’s prison system. Furthermore, as part of a dual-agency operation to purchase and construct new state prison facilities, he proposed an additional $167.7 million for the Georgia […] Read more » corrections legal system
Budget and Taxes Criminal Legal System Reform Ray Khalfani Reports Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections February 8, 2021 / February 9, 2021 by Ray Khalfani For Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a $1.12 billion budget for the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), an agency charged with overseeing the state’s prison system. Between 1997 and 2007, Georgia’s history of tough-on-crime policies impacted the growth of GDC’s population and increased expenditures by $335.2 million annually.[1] Following Gov. […] Read more » corrections legal system
