Sentences with phrase «average jail population»
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There were 8,783 inmates at Rikers Island on Wednesday, and its average daily population for December was at 8,980, per the mayor's office, setting the jail on track to match a monthly average from 1982.
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The de Blasio administration has already made strides on that front, announcing in December that the monthly average population at the jail complex had dropped below 9,000 for the first time in 35 years.
Rikers Island's jail population average for December is on track to hit below 9,000, a number not seen since 1982, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017.
That is something for which the taxpayers can be minimally grateful because Rockland County has the highest cost per prisoner; at an average population of 250 prisoners and a cost of approximately $ 33,000,000 for the jail operations taxpayers are paying $ 132,000 per year per prisoner or $ 362 a day.