How Much Does it Cost to Keep a Criminal?

How MUCH DOES IT COST TO KEEP A CRIMINAL? ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS IS UNDER CORRECTIONAL CONTROL SHARE OF ADULTS UNDER CORRECTIONAL CONTROL, 2007. WASHINGTON 1 IN 30 NEW HAMPSHIRE 1 IN 88 MONTANA 1 IN 44 MAINE VERMONT 1 IN 46 NORTH DAKOTA 1 IN 81 MINNESOTA 1 IN 63 OREGON 1 IN 26 1 IN 33 IDAHO MASSACHUSETTS • 1 IN 24 WISCONSIN 1 IN 18 SOUTH DAKOTA 1 IN 39 NEW YORK 1 IN 40 WYOMING 1 IN 38 1 IN 53 MICHIGAN 1 IN 27 RHODE ISLAND 1 IN 26 CONNECTICUT IOWA 1 IN 54 PENNSYLVANIA NEBRASKA 1 IN 44 1 IN 33 NEW JERSEY 1 IN 35 NEVADA 1 IN 28 ОНIO 1 IN 25 1 IN 48 UTAH 1 IN 64 ILLINOIS 1 IN 38 INDIANA 1 IN 26 DELAWARE SWEST VIRGINIA 1 IN 68 VIRGINIA 1 IN 46 COLORADO 1 IN 26 1 IN 29 CALIFORNIA 1 IN 36 MARYLAND 1 IN 27 KANSAS MISSOURI 1 IN 53 KENTUCKY 1 IN 35 1 IN 36 NORTH CAROLINA DISTRICT OF COLOMBIA TENNESSEE 1 IN 40 1 IN 38 1 IN 21 ARIZONA 1 IN 33 OKLAHOMA 1 IN 42 ARKANSAS SOUTH CAROLINA NEW MEXICO 1 IN 35 1 IN 29 1 IN 38 N ALABAMA 1 IN 32 GEORGIA 1 IN 13 highest fifth LOUISIANA) 1 IN 26 MISSISSIPPI 1 IN 38 TEXAS 1 IN 22 second highest ALASKA 1 IN 36 FLORIDA YIN 31 middle fifth second lowest lowest fifth HAWAII 1 IN 32 STATE DAILY COSTS PER OFFENDER 1 day in prison costs more than 10 days on parole or 22 days on probation. PROBATION AGENCIES PAROLE AGENCIES low daily $1.38 low daily $3-51 avg daily avg daily $7.47 high daily $13.28 $3.42 high daily $7.89 PROBATION AND PAROLE AGENCIES PRISON SYSTEMS low daily avg daily high daily $1.22 I $3.90 $9.76 low daily $35.69 avg daily $78.95 high daily $130.16 EXPLOSIVE GROWTH IN PRISON SPENDING Across 8 states, 88% of additional corrections spending since 1983 has gone to prisons. PROBATION AND PAROLE PRISON $136.48I $788.80 $930.06 $5,672.74 1983 12008 (in millions $) Only 8 states could provide 25-year spending histories (AL, GA, LA, MO, MT, NY, OR and WwY). Most inmates (80%) work to help offset the cost of their incarceration. They work on farms and gardens producing their own food, constructing new correctional facilities and performing repairs and renovations to prisons. Inmates also prepare and serve all meals, maintain prison grounds and participate in sanitation and recycling processes. LEss THAN ONE THIRD BEHIND BARS Despite a 274% increase in incarceration, the vast majority of offenders under correctional control remain in the community. 72% 75% 73% 70% 70% 69% 1982 1987 1992 1997 25% 2002 30% 2007 DEATH ROW Lethal injection consists of: Sodium Thiopental (lethal dose - sedates person) Pancuronium Bromide (muscle relaxant-collapses diaphragm and lungs) Potassium Chloride (stops heart beat) The offender is usually pronounced dead approximately 7 minutes after the lethal injection begins. $86.08 Cost per execution for drugs used: Why does execution cost so much? The cost varies among federal cases and from state to state: Federal - $681,556 to a low of $1,613 It has little or nothing to do with California - $90,000 per ($63.3 million for all annually) Maryland - $37 million each Washington - $70o0,000 actual justice. Justice in America is worth what you can pay. Defendants in Federal cases who had the resources to New Jersey - $11 million per ($253 million annually for all to house death row inmates, as New Jersey pay in excess of $320,000 for their defense only faced a 19% likelihood of conviction, as has suspended executions) opposed to 41% who were convicted because they Kansas - approximately $2.25 million per had to use a public defender. North Carolina - $2.16 million Florida - $24 million (up from $3.2 million per between 1978 and 1988) Execution Update As of January 1, 2010, the total number of executions since the 1976 reinstatement of capital punishment: The bulk of these costs, also, are not 1188 actual inmate related costs but inflated facility cost, court costs, public defender costs, and wages There are five methods of execution in the United States: for all involved--wages being the leader on the list. lethal injection electrocution lethal gas hanging firing squad executions 1 25 21 18 18 25 16 23 56 45 74 6896 85 66 71 65 596o 53 42 37 52 year 1977 - 1978 o o 086 1981 - 1982 F In Eg6. O00 S86 1988= 686 OM 066L 1661 1992 9 1994 966L 1997 1998 666 Lo0z 2002 y 2003 2004 3 Sooz 2006 Looz X 600z Sources: LDF, OJP, DPIC