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Average Annual Cost Per Inmate: $38,268. Average Daily Inmate Population: 45,551. During his first year in office, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner started an initiative in 2015 to reduce Illinoisâ prison population by 25 percent by 2025.
Prisoners also are paid for their workâ7-dollars-50 cents a month. If they have their GED, they can earn an extra dollar. Thatâs about 35 cents a day. Eddy says the direct costs of each inmate every day is $16.39 a day. The other $28 go for the administrative and prison personnel, utilities, and other costs that go with running a prison. Per my calculations, that amounts to $16,308.20 per year, which is 26 percent smaller than the federal poverty line of $22,050 â and less than I would have expected. A quick search of the per-inmate expenditures in peer states suggests that Missouri ranks toward the bottom in its per-inmate expenditures. It is interesting that the direct costs of each inmate amount to only 37 percent of the total cost per each inmate.