I'm just going to step back and allow
the Gentleman from Tamaqua's words to stand on their own here:
“It costs the state approximately $40,000 per year for each inmate in state prisons and roughly $18,000 for prisoners in county prisons. However, it costs just $1,250 per year to monitor prisoners released on probation and approximately $2,750 per year for prisoners who are released on parole,” he wrote.
Argall previously voted in support of SB 1161, the bill “Authorizing Qualified Inmate Transfer to Pre-release Centers.” Argall’s Commission approved this 2010 report supporting the reduction of prisoners in state prisons as a means to curb the budget.
Such reforms, Argall explains, could shave $350 million off the State budget in the next 4 years. This year’s budget for the Department of Corrections is $1.7 billion. This cost-cutting move echoes his fiscally-conservative stance during the 2010 election in which he highlighted Tim Holden’s unpopular vote for President Obama’s stimulus package.
Fiscal conservatism we can believe in.
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