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.
Like many other states, the Illinois prison population has exploded, doubling since the 1980s to about 45,000, fueled in part by tough drug laws. In addition, more than 30,000 former inmates are currently on parole. Those inmates and parolees cost Illinois taxpayers more than $1 billion per year.