Gov. Sonny Perdue is recommending that the Legislature, which convenes Monday, make substantial changes in the state's $16 billion budget for the current 2004 fiscal year that runs through June 30.

Some of the highlights of Perdue's mid-year budget proposal:

Prisons, Juvenile Justice, Public Safety:

• $1.2 million cut in counseling programs by eliminating 37 middle-management positions.

• $4.1 million savings by furloughing non-security staff one day every other month.

• $3.1 million cut in payments to private prisons.

• $8.9 million increase in subsidies to counties for housing inmates in their jails.

• $5 million saved by reducing the capacity of juvenile facilities.

• $574,950 saved by eliminating midnight shifts a half of the State Patrol posts.

• $1.25 million cut by leaving positions vacant and reorganizing the structure in the Department of Public Safety.