Corrections: rehabilitation space.

Assembly Member Quirk-Silva's prison education space monitoring proposal would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to submit annual reports detailing the availability and usage of academic and vocational education spaces across state prisons, beginning January 1, 2028.

The reporting requirements focus on four key metrics: the total space currently designated for educational programs, potential spaces that could be converted for educational use, current utilization rates of existing educational spaces, and facility-specific assessments of space deficits or surpluses. These reports must comply with established government reporting standards under Section 9795 of the Government Code.

This measure builds upon existing law that requires state prisons to offer college programs through California Community Colleges, California State University, University of California, or other accredited nonprofit institutions. While the current framework mandates educational programming, it does not include systematic tracking of the physical space available for these programs. The new reporting requirements would provide the Legislature with regular data on space allocation and utilization patterns across the prison system.