The PEER Committee issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Legislative PEER Committee is releasing its report titled Mississippi Department of Corrections’ FY 2018 Cost Per Inmate Day.
MISS. CODE ANN. Section 47-5-1211 (2) (b) requires the PEER Committee to contract with a certified public accounting firm every two years to establish a state inmate cost per day for use by the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) in negotiating with private prison operators. Contracts with such operators must result in at least a 10% cost savings at the same level and quality of services provided by MDOC.
Some of the Committee’s major findings include:
- For FY 2018, MDOC’s cost per inmate day for a model facility totaled $53.72 based on the average costs, security requirements, and medical needs of MDOC’s inmate population housed in state-operated facilities.
- For FY 2016, MDOC’s cost per inmate day for a model facility totaled $49.79, representing an increase of $3.93 per day from FY 2016 to FY 2018. The primary increase occurred in security personnel costs. However, MDOC’s administrative costs per day decreased from $9.66 in FY 2016 to $7.77 in FY 2018.
- PEER believes that there are areas in which MDOC can negotiate with private prison operators to yield savings significantly greater than the 10% required by state law.
3 comments:
Epps was working on this when Hood tripped him up.
It is a shame that the 20,000 acres of Mississippi Delta farm land at Parchman can’t be farmed to offset some of the cost of operating the prison system. At one time the prison was pretty well self sufficient before the ACLU lawyers and the democrats decided that convicts had more rights than the honest working people and converted it into a rest home for wrongdoers. There is absolutely no sense in allowing criminals to sit on their behinds while the rest of us provide for them. Back in the day when convicts (they are convicts, not inmates or residents or any other politically correct terms) had to work as part of their sentence, a lot less of them were repeat offenders. They didn’t get sent there for singing too loud in church and they need to earn their keep.Working builds character and self esteem, it is called rehabilitation.
2:26 - We have the one armed federal Judge William C. Keady (Greenville Magistrate) to thank for that back in the early 70s. He and State Senator Dyer, from Greenville, had opposing remaining arms. They were best friends and used to joke about buying a pair of gloves and each one taking one glove. But the biggest joke of all was the one Keady pulled on the country with his federal mandate to give convicts a pussy-life behind bars.
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