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.
The annual average taxpayer cost in these states was $31,286 per inmate. New York State was the most expensive, with an average cost of $60,000 per prison inmate. The cost of incarcerating people in New York Cityâs jails is nearly three times as much.