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Message started by Midnightrider on 09/30/13 at 23:01:24

Title: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by Midnightrider on 09/30/13 at 23:01:24

September 30, 2013 |
New York City spends over $160,000 per inmate--almost as much as it costs to go to an Ivy League university, the Associated Press notes.

New York City’s Independent Budget Office recently released data showing that the cost per inmate in the city is $167,731, or $460 per day for the 12,287 people locked up in jails. Those costs far outpace other cities’ spending on prisoners. Much of the cost can be attributed to Rikers Island, a jail near LaGuardia Airport that costs hundreds of millions of dollars to run. But some of the costs are also the result of unionized corrections officers getting paid well.

The Department of Corrections spends over $30 million on transportation costs related to Rikers Island jail. The prison shuttles prisoners back and forth from the island to courts and also pays for transportation for staff to get from a parking lot to the jails.

Former New York City Corrections Commissioner Martin Horn says that one way to bring down the costs is to stop putting so many people in Riker’s and shift inmates to jails near courthouses in Brooklyn and Manhattan. But local residents there have opposed those plans. “ We want these guys put away out of public view,” Horn told the AP.

Yet another factor that fuels the high cost of prisons in the city is the amount of time prisoners stay in the criminal justice system. It is common for inmates to wait years in city jails before going on trial. A recent New York Times series on the Bronx criminal justice system found that many criminal cases “languis[h] for years,” undermining the “the promise of a speedy trial.”

Michael Jacobson, another former corrections commissioner, told the AP, “Not only is that a miscarriage of justice, it affects your operations.

Title: Re: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/01/13 at 04:43:53

It is common for inmates to wait years in city jails before going on trial. A recent New York Times series on the Bronx criminal justice system found that many criminal cases “languis[h] for years,” undermining the “the promise of a speedy trial.”

Title: Re: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/01/13 at 04:44:47

425D5B5C41467747774F5D511A280 wrote:

Its wrong to have them wait. Its also WRONG that it costs so much,

Title: Re: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by Paraquat on 10/01/13 at 09:22:24

The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees all persons accused of criminal wrongdoing the right to a speedy trial.

Why wait?

--Steve

Title: Re: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by oldNslow on 10/01/13 at 09:40:44

1726352636322633470 wrote:

The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees all persons accused of criminal wrongdoing the right to a speedy trial.

Supposed to. But it's pretty much ignored nowadays,just like the rest of the Constitution. >:(

Title: Re: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/01/13 at 10:08:57

Could be because of all that$$$ theytre making housing them,,

Title: Re: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by Dane Allen on 10/01/13 at 13:53:11

382721263B3C0D3D0D35272B60520 wrote:

Could be because of all that$$$ theytre making housing them,,

Heck, pay me $100,000 and I'll stay there myself and you bet I'll be a model prisoner to boot. A lot more than I am making now!! ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: New York spends $160,000 to house inmates
Post by Midnightrider on 10/01/13 at 21:48:46

Just don't pick up the soap!!!!!