New York, NY – The cost of housing New York City’s inmates last year was $167,000 per inmate.
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That’s according to the Independent Budget Office’s first-ever study of the city’s jails. More than 12,000 inmates were jailed on an average day.
The IBO says that the average annual cost per inmate covers additional expenses such as staff salaries, fringe benefits, facility maintenance and capital expenditures.
Michael Jacobson, the former president of the Vera Institute of Justice, told the New York Post (http://bit.ly/151JGO8 ) that those were fixed costs that don’t change.
He says the number of inmates was about half of what it was in the early 1990s. The inmate population peaked at 21,000 in 1992.
The study also found that 57 percent of inmates were black, 33 percent Hispanic and 7 percent white.
57 percent black……Stop & Frisk?
This shows something, Stop & Frisk is important. If a black were to be stoped & nothing wrong with them they wouldn’t go to jail, the only reason they do go to jail is because something is wrong with them. Kadus to Bloomberg & Ray Kelly regarding Stop & Frisk program.
How about we offer people that we will give them $200,000 in exchange for a felony and hopefully that seed money will keep them off of crime, it might save us some money
I would like to know what they are feeding them and how much.
The New York Times reported yesterday that “90% of violent crimes committed in New York City” are committed by Black & Hispanic men.
The city is better off paying the inmates $50,000 per year to not commit crimes
They should promise the prisoners $100,000 (a year) if they behave and stay out of trouble. Think smart!!!
$167,000 x 12,000 = $ 2,004,000,000
That’s two TRILLION dollars.
They put out these numbers, but something is wrong here.