Appendix C
Criminal Justice System Expenditures
The state's criminal justice system is comprised of several executive and judicial branch agencies, including the state police, courts, state's attorneys, public defenders, adult probation, correction department, parole board, and victim services. Table C-1 shows the total state appropriation for the criminal justice system to arrest, prosecute and defend, adjudicate, incarcerate, and supervise pre-trial and convicted offenders. In fiscal year 2000, the total expenditures for the state's criminal justice represented about 10 percent of the total state budget.
Municipal police departments perform the bulk of law enforcement duties and make the majority of felony and misdemeanor arrests in Connecticut. These agencies, however, are not funded through the state budget process and were not included in this analysis.
In addition, there are other state agencies that are not part of the traditional criminal justice system, but provide services to the criminal offender population such as the Departments of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Social Services. However, their budgets were not included in this analysis because it was difficult to identify how much was spent specifically on offenders.
As shown, since FY 97, the DOC budget has accounted for more than half of the total appropriation for the state's criminal justice system. The department's budget has increased each year, except for FY 98.
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Table C-1. Criminal Justice System Agencies Budgets |
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FY97 |
FY98 |
FY99 |
FY00 |
FY01* |
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Judicial Branch |
$197,379,100 |
$210,743,108 |
$242,529,422 |
$279,989,288 |
$306,948,031 |
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Department of Correction |
401,163,537 |
391,970,720 |
414,776,321 |
470,744,987 |
499,712,416 |
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Board of Parole |
6,435,906 |
6,011,195 |
6,848,582 |
7,911,423 |
9,281,283 |
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Division of State Police |
25,192,860 |
29,569,492 |
62,262,569 |
88,125,334 |
97,232,589 |
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Division of Criminal Justice |
26,604,499 |
28,754,012 |
30,842,777 |
35,615,802 |
37,297,565 |
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Division of Public Defender |
19,706,796 |
21,597,083 |
23,513,788 |
29,330,139 |
31,002,677 |
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Victim Advocate's Office |
0 |
0 |
3,195 |
108,339 |
206,179 |
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TOTAL |
676,482,698 |
679,235,610 |
782,776,654 |
911,825,312 |
981,680,740 |
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The judicial branch budget includes only the criminal court operations and court support services, which oversees adult probation, alternative sanctions, and bail services. Civil and family court operations and other administrative functions were not included. The Division of Criminal Justice, which includes the chief state's attorney, oversees the state's attorneys. The Divison of Public Defender is not defined in statutute as a criminal justice agency, but was included in this analysis. *FY01 is an estimate Source of data: Comptroller's Reported Expenditure |
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Figure
C-1. shows the percentage of the total criminal justice budget that each agency
received in fiscal year 2000. The Department of Correction accounts for half of
the almost $912 million expenditure. The judicial branch received 31 percent of
the total budget, the state police 10 percent. The state's attorneys, the Board
of Parole, and the Division of the Public Defender combined received nine
percent of the total criminal justice budget.