{"id":1470878,"date":"2024-06-12T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1470878"},"modified":"2024-06-12T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T07:20:00","slug":"mapping-cost-per-prisoner-by-us-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/mapping-cost-per-prisoner-by-us-state\/1470878\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Cost Per Prisoner By US State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Mapping Cost Per Prisoner By US State<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The US prison population consists of around 1.2 million inmates.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at data from USAFacts obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, which was most recently updated in June 2023, we can analyze <strong>which states have the highest and lowest expenditures of their taxpayer dollars per prisoner. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Differences in Prison Spending Vary Widely Across States<\/h3>\n<p>As Bruno Venditti notes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/cost-per-prisoner-in-us-states\/\"><em>Visual Capitalist<\/em><\/a>, over $80 billion is <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/58e127cb1b10e31ed45b20f4\/t\/5cc7c27b9e3a8d00018649c5\/1556595324791\/The+Prison+Industrial+Complex+-+Mapping+Private+Sector+Players+-+2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> annually on prisons in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A large part of this is used to pay over 4,000 vendors that serve the criminal legal system, including healthcare providers and food suppliers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the state level, most of the budget goes for day-to-day operations, including officer salaries.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/highest-minimum-wage-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-wage<\/a> states such as California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, officers receive double the salaries compared to those in lower-wage states like Mississippi, Missouri, and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, spending can vary from just under <strong>$23,000<\/strong> per prisoner in Arkansas to <strong>$307,468<\/strong> in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Prisoner_Site_jpg_92.jpg?itok=yFAvPS9C\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>States With the Highest Incarceration Rates<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Southern U.S. states have the highest imprisonment rates according to 2022 data<\/strong>, with Mississippi at 859 people per 100,000, Louisiana at 775, and Arkansas at 743.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts has the lowest rate of any state, with 116 people per 100,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 06\/11\/2024 &#8211; 23:20<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/mapping-cost-prisoner-us-state\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/mapping-cost-prisoner-us-state<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping Cost Per Prisoner By US State The US prison population consists of around 1.2 million inmates. 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