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SillyDig1520 t1_iwt9z8z wrote

Reply to comment by DoritosDewItRight in Federal Monitor Who Watches Over Rikers Island Has Made $18 million from NYC Taxpayers...and counting by mattkatz00

Source for $600k per prisoner, please? At that rate you could hire a guard for each inmate and still have >$500k/yr to steal utilize.

nb: NYPost does not count as a source.

edit: many sources confirm op's statement. It indeed costs upwards of $500k per inmate per year... Fucking. Insane.

final edit: this was an interesting read: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-cost-of-incarceration-per-person-in-new-york-city-skyrockets-to-all-time-high-2/

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Rottimer t1_iwuzu71 wrote

If you hire a guard for each inmate, but they have unlimited paid sick days and do not have to provide a doctors note if they’ve been all week sick, and all week 2 weeks ago, and all week 4 weeks ago. . . You’re not ever going to actually have a guard for each inmate.

You’ll be paying for it, but not actually getting it.

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09-24-11 t1_iwud14u wrote

Now think of all the people who want to lock up the mentally ill and are willing to spend $500,000 a year because some guy is yelling on the street.

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SillyDig1520 t1_iwuj1fk wrote

It would be great if we could spend that on real issues without incarceration. But we don't live in a rational world, and no one would profit from treating MH issues. Ergo, lock em up to pad someone's pocket until we figure out how to make a very corrupt MH system.

Note: wrote this sitting on the A and the front of this car is empty save for one homeless person sleeping.

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