From other reports it appears that Rockland has the lowest crime rate and lowest
jail population per resident compared to all other Counties in the Lower Hudson Valley.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Despite making up only 5
per cent of the
population aged 10 to 17, more than half of the young people in
jail are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths.