STEP 2: Activate your card. Take your SoGo Cash Card to your computer and log on to www.sogocashcard.com. Add value to your card on our convenient website using your credit card. Add value to the card right at the cashier station at participating Sodexo locations.
Average Annual Cost Per Inmate: $38,268. Average Daily Inmate Population: 45,551. During his first year in office, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner started an initiative in 2015 to reduce Illinoisâ prison population by 25 percent by 2025.
There are the monetary costs to taxpayers but also the price society pays for a largely ineffective system. The price of prisoners can vary greatly from state to state. Among the 40 states surveyed in the 2012 report by the Vera Institute of Justice, the average annual per-inmate cost was $31,286.