Feb. 19, 2020
by William Goehler (author's profile)

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Coastline Community College: Student Schedule and Bill
Issued Date: 11/18/2019 (November 18, 2019)
"Thank You Much."
Student Name: William R. Goehler
Student ID: C00961190
Term: Intersession/Spring 2020 (201933)
Address:
William R. Goehler
Inmate K-77832 (A2-233)
Mule Creek State Prison
4001 Hwy 104
Ione, CA 95640
Billing Summary:
Previous Balance: n/a
Current Term Balance: 966.00
Future Balance: 0.00
Payment Due: n/a
Past Payment Due: n/a
Current Term Charges Total: 966.00
Current Term Payments Total: 0.00
CRN: 92868 / Subject: COUN / Course Title: Strategies for Colle / Instructor: Winterbour / Credits: 3.00 / Days: TBA / Time: TBA / Building: CCC / Room: TV / Refund Deadline: 2/8/2020 / Last Day to Drop Without a Withdrawal: 4/25/2020 / Start Date: 1/27/2020 / End Date: 5/23/2020
Current Term Charges:
CCC Enrollment Fee - 138.00
CCC Non-Resident Tuition - 795.00
CCC Non-Resident Tuition-Other - 33.00
"I truly am grateful to California Tax Payers."
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Legislative Analyst's Office
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Reports by Policy Area: Capital Outlay, Infrastructure; Criminal Justice; Economy and Taxes; Education; Environment and Natural Resources; Health and Human Services; Local Government; State Budget Condition; Transportation; Other Government Areas
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How much does it cost to incarcerate an inmate?
California's Annual Cost to Incarcerate an Inmate in Prison
2016-17
Type of Expenditure - Security
Per Inmate Costs: $32,019
https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost
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Legislative Analyst's Office
Inmate Health Care: $21,582
• Medical Care: 14,834
• Psychiatric services: 3,359
• Pharmaceuticals: 2,143
• Dental Care: 1,246
Facilty Operations and Records: $7,025
• Facility operations (maintenance and utilities): 4,334
• Classification services: 1,798
• Maintenance of inmate records: 723
• Reception, testing, assignment: 145
• Transportation: 24
Administration: $4,171
Inmate Food and Activities: $3,484
• Food: 2,082
• Inmate employment: 823
• Clothing: 354
• Inmate activities: 102
• Religious activities: 123
Rehabilitation Programs: $2,437
• Academic education: 1,237
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: 823
• Vocational training: 377
Miscellaneous: $93
Total: $70,812
• It costs an average of about $71,000 per year to incarcerate an inmate in prison in California.
• Over three-quarters of these costs are for security and inmate health care.
• Since 2010-11, the average annual cost has increased by about $22,000 or about 45 percent. This includes an increase of $7,900 for security and $7,200 for inmate health care. This increase has been driven by various factors, including (1) employee compensation, (2) increased inmate health care costs, and (3) operational costs related to additional prison capacity to reduce prison overcrowding.
Last Updated: March 207
https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost
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At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard - Associated Press, June 4, 2017, 8:30am
Inmates walk in file at San Quentin State Prison ((Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times))
The cost of imprisoning each of California's 130,000 inmates is expected to reach a record $75,560 in the next year
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-20170604-htmlstory.html
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At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard
A guard watches prisoners being escorted across the yard at San Quentin State Prison (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
That's enough to cover the annual cost of attending Harvard University and still have plenty left over for pizza and beer. Gov. Jerry Brown's spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 includes a record $11.4 billion for the corrections department while also predicting that there will be 11,500 fewer inmates in four years because voters in November approved earlier releases for many inmates.
A Pattern Continues
Cost per prisoner has doubled since 2005
The price for each inmate has doubled since 2005, even as court orders related to overcrowding have reduced the population by about one-quarter. Salaries and benefits for prison guards and medical providers drove much of the increase. The result is a per-inmate cost that is the nation's highest - and $2,000 above tuition, fees, room and board, and other expenses to attend Harvard.
Since 2015, California's per-inmate costs have surged nearly $10,000, or about 13%. New York is a distant second in overall costs at about $69,000.
Critics say with fewer inmates, the costs should be falling.
"Now that we're incarcerating less, we haven't ramped the system back down," said Chris Hoene, executive director of the left-leaning California Budget & Policy Center.
why does it cost so much?
Costs rising even as prison population declines
California was sued over prison overcrowding, and to comply with a federal court-imposed population cap, the Brown administration now keeps most lower-level offenders in county jails instead of state prisons. Additionally, voters in 2014 reduced penalties for drug and property crimes and last fall approved the earlier releases.
State Sen. Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber) said reformers falsely promised a "prison dividend" from savings related to the changes. Instead, there's now an uptick in many crimes and he's worried it will lead to an influx of new inmates that will cost more to house.
XXXXXX, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, said it was "highly predictable" that per inmate costs would increase even as the population decreased.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-20170604-htmlstory.html
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Prison and Education Recidivism
Cost of Prison Education: Spending $1 per prisoner on prison education saves $4 to $5 in the future for decreased rates of recidivism.
Recidivism Rates: The U.S. spends $31,000 to incarcerate somone every year. Prison education reduces the 54% recidivism rate by 40%
Source: Office of Justice Programs, The Nation, RAND Corporation

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