NCJ Number
142505
Date Published
1993
Length
30 pages
Annotation
Based on official statistics and specific budget guidelines, this report presents estimates of the operating costs per day per offender served for criminal justice programs and services in Texas for fiscal years 1991 and 1992.
Abstract
The estimates cover only program operations and not any expenditures associated with construction, renovation, or debt service. Results revealed cost increases between 1991 and 1992. Institutional programs continued to be the most costly sanctions. Juvenile probation detention centers cost $92.45 per day, compared to $5.01 for probation supervision. Institutionalizing juveniles in a State facility cost $115.72 per day. In the adult system, the operating costs per day to the State of institutional community corrections facilities exceeded the daily operating cost of prisons. The costs per day for the State were $48.24 for combination centers, $53.79 for drug abuse treatment facilities, $45.70 for prison units, and $43.51 for a minimum security regional reintegration prison unit. Local jurisdictions cover more than half the operational costs of supervision and facilities for the juvenile probation system, while they cover less than one-third of the cost for the adult probation system. Cost data for other correctional programs, tables