Prisoner relocation to cost Suffolk $3M
Quick ReadSuffolk County's budget has sprung a new $3-million hole because state correction officials are requiring the county to send 128 prisoners to jails outside the county, sheriff officials disclosed Wednesday.
Photo credit: AP | Inmate housing on New York's Rikers Island penal complex. (May 16, 2011)
Suffolk County's budget has sprung a new $3-million hole because state correction officials are requiring the county to send 128 prisoners to jails outside the county, sheriff officials disclosed Wednesday.
The state Commission of Correction decision, which took effect Oct. 13, is costing Suffolk $125 per prisoner, or $16,000 a day or about $500,000 a month.
The correction commission...
