4/22/16 Phoenix explores alternatives to Maricopa County Jail
The City of Phoenix has paid an average of about ten million dollars per year for the last fifteen years in jail costs to the Maricopa County Jail, and Phoenix cases account for more than thirty percent of bookings into the Jail. Those costs are set to rise in the next few months.
Several ways to reduce those numbers were explored at a recent Phoenix City subcommittee meeting, including expansion of an existing, centralized booking system, night court, increasing home detention options, or even increasing the number of offenses which could be taken care of by citation and release. Private jails are a more recent alternative, but nothing is currently available.
Several factors are cited as being the reason for increasing jail costs, among them medical costs, lawsuits and, according to a Maricopa County official, because fewer people are actually in the jail (driving up the average).
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