COST OF TECHNICAL VIOLATIONS OF PAROLE
New York State spends approximately $359 million incarcerating people returned to state prison for technical parole violations. Localities across the state spend nearly $300 million incarcerating these individuals accused of alleged parole violations while they await disposition of the charges. The following cost analysis from New Yorkers United for Justice’s (NYUJ) shows the local costs of incarcerating people for technical violations in New York State.
The map and table below show the estimated cost to local jails and correctional facilities in New York for incarcerating individuals for technical revocations in 2019. These estimates were calculated using average daily counts of individuals incarcerated for technical violations as reported by the New York Division of Criminal Justice Services [1] and the estimated annual cost of incarceration in New York City and each New York county as reported by the New York City Comptroller [2] and the Vera Institute of Justice.[3]
Individuals under the supervision of the state parole system must adhere to a set of conditions such as regular meetings with parole officers and can include curfews and abstaining from alcohol. A violation of one of these conditions – known as a technical violation of parole – can result in a parole officer issuing a warrant resulting in mandatory detention in a city or county jail as the violation is adjudicated without the possibility of bail or release on recognizance. The adjudication process can take up to 105 days. The average length of the adjudication process in New York City is 61 to 67 days and 58 days in the rest of the state. The city and counties detaining individuals accused of a noncriminal, technical violation of parole are responsible for the cost of detention. It has been estimated that New York localities spend around $300 million annually detaining such individuals while technical violation allegations are adjudicated. Based on these figures, New York City and counties outside of the city spent over $340 million detaining individuals accused of technical violations of parole in 2019.
J Jail
|
Facility |
Annual Average Daily Count of People Incarcerated for Allegedly Violating Parole |
Annual Average Cost of Incarceration Per Individual |
Annual Cost of Incarcerating People for Alleged Technical Violations |
|
New York City Jails |
738 |
$337,524 |
$249,092,712.00 |
|
Albany County Jail |
44 |
$83,703 |
$3,682,932.00 |
|
Allegany County Jail |
1 |
$72,967 |
$ 72,967.00 |
|
Broome County Jail |
13 |
$62,792 |
$816,296.00 |
|
Cattaraugus County Jail |
9 |
$56,211 |
$505,899.00 |
|
Cayuga County Jail |
8 |
$68,746 |
$549,968.00 |
|
Chautauqua County Jail |
15 |
$49,991 |
$749,865.00 |
|
Chemung County Jail |
11 |
$70,285 |
$773,135.00 |
|
Chenango County Jail |
3 |
$81,315 |
$243,945.00 |
|
Clinton County Jail |
15 |
$58,526 |
$877,890.00 |
|
Columbia County Jail |
6 |
$66,734 |
$400,404.00 |
|
Cortland County Jail |
4 |
$95,493 |
$381,972.00 |
|
Delaware County Jail |
3 |
$82,288 |
$246,864.00 |
|
Dutchess County Jail |
18 |
$96,574 |
$1,738,332.00 |
|
Erie County Correctional Facility |
50 |
$113,073 |
$5,653,650.00 |
|
Erie County Jail |
38 |
$113,073 |
$4,296,774.00 |
|
Essex County Jail |
2 |
$80,019 |
$160,038.00 |
|
Franklin County Jail |
6 |
$81,620 |
$489,720.00 |
|
Fulton County Jail |
8 |
$75,472 |
$603,776.00 |
|
Genesee County Jail |
7 |
$50,789 |
$355,523.00 |
|
Greene County Jail |
0 |
$116,946 |
$ – |
|
Hamilton County Jail |
0 |
$215,939 |
$ – |
|
Herkimer County Jail |
2 |
$579,349 |
$1,158,698.00 |
|
Jefferson County Jail |
12 |
$59,489 |
$713,868.00 |
|
Lewis County Jail |
5 |
$67,793 |
$338,965.00 |
|
Livingston County Jail |
8 |
$57,531 |
$460,248.00 |
|
Madison County Jail |
6 |
$71,760 |
$430,560.00 |
|
Monroe County Correctional Facility |
0 |
$79,896 |
$ – |
|
Monroe County Jail |
156 |
$79,896 |
$ 12,463,776.00 |
|
Montgomery County Jail |
6 |
$41,079 |
$246,474.00 |
|
Nassau County Correctional Facility |
34 |
$207,477 |
$7,054,218.00 |
|
Niagara County Jail |
14 |
$57,847 |
$809,858.00 |
|
Oneida County Jail |
35 |
$68,278 |
$2,389,730.00 |
|
Onondaga County Correctional Facility |
62 |
$90,628 |
$5,618,936.00 |
|
Onondaga County Jail |
15 |
$90,628 |
$1,359,420.00 |
|
Ontario County Jail |
17 |
$98,207 |
$1,669,519.00 |
|
Orange County Jail |
37 |
$84,852 |
$3,139,524.00 |
|
Orleans County jail |
6 |
$57,716 |
$346,296.00 |
|
Oswego County Jail |
19 |
$52,908 |
$1,005,252.00 |
|
Otsego County Jail |
4 |
$87,267 |
$349,068.00 |
|
Putnam County Jail |
2 |
$171,341 |
$342,682.00 |
|
Renssalear County Jail |
28 |
$75,399 |
$2,111,172.00 |
|
Rockland County Jail |
10 |
$252,238 |
$2,522,380.00 |
|
Saratoga County Jail |
19 |
$63,123 |
$1,199,337.00 |
|
Schenectady County Jail |
28 |
$76,380 |
$2,138,640.00 |
|
Schohaire County Jail |
0 |
$91,829 |
$ – |
|
Schuyler County Jail |
2 |
$105,685 |
$211,370.00 |
|
Seneca County Jail |
4 |
$89,766 |
$359,064.00 |
|
St. Lawrence County Jail |
7 |
$63,951 |
$447,657.00 |
|
Steuben County Jail |
10 |
$58,306 |
$583,060.00 |
|
Suffolk County CF Riverhead |
28 |
$126,596 |
$3,544,688.00 |
|
Suffolk County CF Yaphank |
28 |
$126,596 |
$3,544,688.00 |
|
Sullivan County Jail |
16 |
$96,670 |
$1,546,720.00 |
|
Tioga County Jail |
3 |
$86,932 |
$260,796.00 |
|
Tompkins County Jail |
6 |
$92,802 |
$556,812.00 |
|
Ulster County Jail |
17 |
$106,964 |
$1,818,388.00 |
|
Warren County Jail |
10 |
$96,196 |
$961,960.00 |
|
Washington County Jail |
11 |
$93,059 |
$1,023,649.00 |
|
Wayne County Jail |
7 |
$120,280 |
$841,960.00 |
|
Westchester Annex |
1 |
$141,802 |
$141,802.00 |
|
Westchester Jail |
23 |
$141,802 |
$3,261,446.00 |
|
Westchester County Penitentiary |
9 |
$141,802 |
$1,276,218.00 |
|
Wyoming County Jail |
2 |
$109,953 |
$219,906.00 |
|
Yates County Jail |
2 |
$88,082 |
$176,164.00 |
[1] “New York State Jail Populations 10-year Trends: 2010 – 2019,” New York Division of Criminal Justice Services, February 2020. https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/jail_pop_y.pdf
[2] “Comptroller Stringer: Cost of Incarceration per Person in New York City Skyrockets to All-Time High,” Office of the New York City Comptroller, December 6, 2019. https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-cost-of-incarceration-per-person-in-new-york-city-skyrockets-to-all-time-high/#:~:text=The%20Comptroller’s%20Office%20has%20also,fiscal%20years%202019%20and%202020.&text=Including%20all%20costs%20related%20to,%24925%20per%20person%20per%20day
[3] Lauren Jones, Sandra van de Heuvel, and Amanda Lawson, “The Cost of Incarceration in New York State,” The Vera Institute of Justice, January 2021. https://www.vera.org/the-cost-of-incarceration-in-new-york-state
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