• 171,000: Average number of inmates who call the California prison system home.

• 37,000: Reduction in average number of inmates in the state prison system over the next two fiscal years under a proposal passed by the state Senate and before the Assembly.

• $49,000: Annual cost, per inmate, of running the state prison system.

• $10.6 billion: Budget for the California Department of Corrections, which oversees the state prison system.

• $1.2 billion: Amount that lawmakers seek to trim from that budget

in the current fiscal year.

• 70 percent: Amount of that budget that goes toward salaries and benefits of

CDC staff.

• 5 percent: Amount of

that budget that goes toward inmate education and vocational

programs.

• 7.6 percent: The CDC’s slice of the state budget pie for this fiscal year.