Justice & Public Safety Budget Listings

Total spending cuts- $148.7 million
Total budget- $2.2 billion

JPS appropriations in the Senate budget proposal include roughly $23.8 million funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Over 200 vacant positions and nearly 800 filed positions will be eliminated mostly cut from Corrections and as a result of the expected closing of 7 prisons. 57 new jobs will be created either in the merging of prisons or through positions created by federal stimulus dollars.

Judicial

• 47 vacant positions in administration and courthouses statewide to be cut department-wide.
• Freeze the step salary increase for magistrates and clerks.
•  In trial courts, reduce funding for the dispute resolution centers and the Mediation Network of North Carolina by 25 percent.
• Save $7,000 by eliminating funding for annual travel allowances for each Superior Court Judge totaling $672,000. 

Judicial- Indigent Defense

• Funding for the Center for Death Penalty Litigation contract is reduced by 5 percent.
• 3 vacant positions in the Public Defender office are eliminated.

Justice

• Eliminate 48 agency positions department-wide.
• Use funding of up to $1.8 million provided through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to expand GangNet intelligence information databases.

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

• 7 administration positions to be eliminated in the general office.
• Eliminate funding for the Center for the Prevention of School Violence (CPSV)
• Use funding of $ 6 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to introduce a two year Gang Prevention and Intervention Pilot Program.
• 25 additional department-wide vacant positions to be eliminated.
• Use $1.5 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to create 12 new court counselors and 2 new supervisors.
• Close two of the seven Eckered Camps across the state.
• Eliminate funding for the Governor’s One on One mentoring program.
• Eliminate funding for the Support Our Students program, which will cut 3 filed positions.
• 19 vacant Youth Development Center Positions are to be eliminated.

Correction

• 100 vacant positions within the Department of Correction FY 2009-10 to be eliminated.
• 200 positions in 2010-11 to be eliminated.
• 87 positions throughout the Department of Corrections to be eliminated adding up to $4,369,668 in reduction savings.
• Reduce pass-through appropriation to Women at Risk, Harriet’s House and Our Children’s Place by 25 percent.
• Fund an additional 18 Chief Probation Parole Officer positions.
• 7 prisons are to be closed during FY 2009-10.

Crime Control and Public Safety

• 2 administrative positions to be eliminated.
• Decrease funding by 25 percent for the North Carolina Victims Assistance Network.

You can find the full text of the bill here and the user-friendly money report here.