Nah, immigration and incarceration are costly. Having worked in jails and prisons for almost 15 years it is easy to see how it drags down the average. Prisons in my states cost about $110-140k per person per year, and jails cost about $40-60k per person per year. One particular old hispanic who raped his grandchildren developed an bleeding gastric ulcer, was sent to a nearby hospital, nearly died, had emergency surgery, and spent a fair amount of time in the ICU which ended up costing the county well over a million dollars. Then there are all of the dog bites I had to deal with, dozens which cost an easy $10k or more in hospital care. About 1/6th of the jail were women, and over a year we would have somewhere between 10-20 pregnancies including all of the prenatal visits. In the prison there are drug overdoses, lawsuits against this or that in which the state will settle and pay out a few $100k to couple million sometimes. Our prison system had about 120,000 with a proposed budget of $17,000,000,000 but may be less now after covid. 2-3 years ago it was about $13,000,000,000
https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Budget/
It has since dropped with some releases from covid to about $90k but still interacts with another 50k on parole, but that averages to about $140k+ per person per year depending on the population. https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/04/Tpop1d210421.pdf
The jail has a population between 400-600 costing about $20,000,000 from the county. The demographics of my county are about 45% white, 45% hispanic, 5% black, and 5% everything else.
The jail actually list everything as public information, but I see the same or so in the prison population https://inmatelocator.countyofkings.com/Inmate/Index
Jail population is 468
50 black or 11%
296 hispanic or 64%
88 white or 18%
34 everything else, mostly native or 7%
It is all from California, so take their own mismanagement into account. This doesn't include legal and court cost.
Nah, immigration and incarceration are costly. Having worked in jails and prisons for almost 15 years it is easy to see how it drags down the average. Prisons in my states cost about $110-140k per person per year, and jails cost about $40-60k per person per year. One particular old hispanic who raped his grandchildren developed an bleeding gastric ulcer, was sent to a nearby hospital, nearly died, had emergency surgery, and spent a fair amount of time in the ICU which ended up costing the county well over a million dollars. Then there are all of the dog bites I had to deal with, dozens which cost an easy $10k or more in hospital care. About 1/6th of the jail were women, and over a year we would have somewhere between 10-20 pregnancies including all of the prenatal visits. In the prison there are drug overdoses, lawsuits against this or that in which the state will settle and pay out a few $100k to couple million sometimes. Our prison system had about 120,000 with a proposed budget of $17,000,000,000 but may be less now after covid. 2-3 years ago it was about $13,000,000,000
https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Budget/
It has since dropped with some releases from covid to about $90k but still interacts with another 50k on parole, but that averages to about $140k+ per person per year depending on the population. https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/04/Tpop1d210421.pdf
The jail has a population between 400-600 costing about $20,000,000 from the county. The demographics of my county are about 45% white, 45% hispanic, 5% black, and 5% everything else.
The jail actually list everything as public information, but I see the same or so in the prison population https://inmatelocator.countyofkings.com/Inmate/Index
Jail population is 468 50 black, 11% 296 hispanic, 64% 88 white, 18% 34 everything else, mostly native, 7%
It is all from California, so take their own mismanagement into account. This doesn't include legal and court cost.