City’s Annual Cost Per Inmate Is $168,000, Study Finds
[2024-03-02 09:12:37]
According to a survey released this week by the Independent Budget Office, this city last year paid $ 167,731 to raise money, raise and protect all of the prisoners.
"This is a human thing and makes financial sense uneasy," Budget Director Doug Turetsky said on Friday. He said that 12,287 prisoners last year shuffled in the city's prison.
Mr. Turecki added that he did not know that the cost of each prisoner in the prison had declined in a previous study but there was a nationwide study.
In 2012, the Vera Judicial Institute announced the findings that the total cost of 40 state prisons involved in 2010 was $ 39 billion.
Michael P. Jacobson, president of the State and Local Government Research Institute of the City University of New York, and Mr. Michael P. Jacobson of the Urban Correction and Practice Committee of the past, the city's expenses are very high He says it is high. System "For each security guard, the ratio of prisoners and staff could be tied to two prisoners," he said.
Budget Bureau stated that 83% of the cost of each prisoner is from wages, staff benefits and pension costs.
Jacobson pointed out that the city's prison population has been successfully reduced from about 23,000 at the peak in 1993 to about 12,000 today, but said fixed costs are unlikely to go down soon .
But he said that there are things that people can use to save money, such as reducing the time sitting in a prison waiting for a trial. According to the budget office, approximately 76% of the prisoners in the city are waiting to process their case.
Jacobson said that since 2002 the wait time for incident handling has been extended from 76 days to 95 days.
"I think that there are far fewer workloads on paper, but these things need to be done via the system, not the system," he said. "If there is more time to do something, it will take more time."
There is a high possibility that it is a minority ethnic group, 57% are black people, 33% are Hispanic, 7% are Caucasian, and 1% are Asian.
70% of prisoners lack GED. Depending on the location, the annual fee to accommodate prisoners in prison is between $ 25,000 and $ 168,000. Children who are not imprisoned without imprisonment by the school currently use at least twice the amount they are in jail each year because the US now offers $ 12,500 a year for educating children, . This could lead to the loss of our economy, which may be beneficial for children to have a motive to stay at school. And of course, anyone in New York, Los Angeles, or Detroit's old days can prove that the cost of high crime is devastating and immeasurable. If public schools go backwards or worsen and collapse, our overall concern and the difference between rich and poor will be hollow due to the rise in the crime rate.
Although the cost per prisoner varies, on average, prisoners' annual cost is about $ 30,000. Because of this overwhelming problem, many governments are trying to balance the budget. To reduce costs, they turned their attention to the private sector as an answer. Today, there are about 100 private prisons and 133,000 prisoners. Privatization of prison has several major advantages. One of the main advantages of prison privatization is the simplification of government and cost reduction. Generally, the government does not need to spend money when placing prisoners, but less money to pay for private companies to take care of prisoners. They also have to pay a consistent amount, which makes budget planning easier. This is because private prisons charge each prisoner for government fees.
If the prison population decreases by one, the cost will change. For example, in South Carolina, the annual marginal cost per prisoner is reported to be $ 3,747 (average cost per person is $ 20,053), and in New York the annual marginal cost per prisoner is $ 18,706 (average cost 69, 355 Dollar) was reported. Yes, marginal cost is always less than average cost, usually less than half of average cost. Sout