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Why is everything so insanely costly in big cities these days? $300,000 a year to house one inmate at Riker's Island and $37,000 a year of spending per homeless person with the issue just getting worse.
$300,000 a year to house one inmate at Riker's Island jail?
That is 5 times the median household income in America!
Amazing, how the budgets just keep skyrocketing for no reason.
Obviously, they have a constitutional obligation to provide health care for inmates and have adaquate staffing but $300,000 per inmate seems through the roof.
They also spend $37,000 per year on each homeless person. That is two point nine billion divided by 78,000 homeless persons which is the latest estimate.
IDK about that figure...ID like to see a breakdown on how they come up with that number.
I get suspicious when I see crazy high numbers for something like this...it makes me believe they are probably diverting 90% of that money 'somewhere' else (that they do not want the public to know about).
The real number is probably closer to $13K per year, per inmate, and the other $287K goes into the black budget.
JBG USA where are you buddy? This is a pretty good argument for the idea that if someone is so dangerous that they can't be let out in public but so expensive to not let out, maybe we ought to just kill them. This is massive economic harm to society and there has to be a better solution, either private prisons or something else.
Why is everything so insanely costly in big cities these days? $300,000 a year to house one inmate at Riker's Island and $37,000 a year of spending per homeless person with the issue just getting worse.
$300,000 a year to house one inmate at Riker's Island jail?
That is 5 times the median household income in America!
Amazing, how the budgets just keep skyrocketing for no reason.
Obviously, they have a constitutional obligation to provide health care for inmates and have adaquate staffing but $300,000 per inmate seems through the roof.
They also spend $37,000 per year on each homeless person. That is two point nine billion divided by 78,000 homeless persons which is the latest estimate.
JBG USA where are you buddy? This is a pretty good argument for the idea that if someone is so dangerous that they can't be let out in public but so expensive to not let out, maybe we ought to just kill them. This is massive economic harm to society and there has to be a better solution, either private prisons or something else.
The cost per prisoner would only increase then because of the ones on the take need their cut.
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