Could be worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island
> In a 2021 analysis by the New York City Comptroller, it costs the city approximately $556,539 to detain one person for one year at Rikers Island.
> In a 2021 analysis by the New York City Comptroller, it costs the city approximately $556,539 to detain one person for one year at Rikers Island.
I know I'd be on my goodie two shoes if I was getting paid $550k a year. Makes me feel like the people who sabotaged my career are just trying to murder me.
What did they spend $556,539 per inmate on, exactly?
Taxpayers deserve an itemized receipt.
Otherwise, by accepting overspending as the norm, it obfuscates corruption & large-scale grift as taxpayers get fleeced.
There's also substantial opportunity cost - that's $500K+ that could be going toward education or useful public services, that ended up in someone's pockets instead.
Transparency invites accountability.
Can't imagine most prisoners have good insurance but I could be completely wrong here.
It’s still not very clear in breaking down the cost, but I suspect it has to do with increasing amounts of violent incidents and related tort claims. That increase is a broader pattern across the NYC Department of Corrections, with per capita assaults on staff quintupling over 10 years:
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/nyc-department-of-correc...