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Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 | 1:59 a.m.
Sun coverage
The Henderson City Council approved a contract with the United States Marshals Service on Tuesday night to house federal prisoners in the city’s detention center, formalizing an agreement between the two sides that has been going on for four years.
The Marshals Service pays Henderson $96.96 per prisoner per day, which at a projected average of 20 prisoners per day, is expected to generate more than $700,000 per year for the city’s General Fund.
Henderson has similar deals to house all of Boulder City’s inmates for the same daily rate, and a deal to house inmates of Metro Police for $101 per day, Henderson Police Department spokesman Keith Paul said.
The detention center has 273 beds, Paul said, and though the population of Henderson and Boulder City inmates fluctuates, he said the department has daily contact with the Marshals Service and Metro Police to take on their inmates and keep the facility near capacity.
Inmates of the Marshals Service that are housed in the detention center include “individuals charged with federal offenses and detained while awaiting trial, individuals who have been sentenced and are awaiting designation and transport to a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility, and individuals who are awaiting a hearing on their immigration status or deportation,” according to the agreement.
Paul said the estimated daily cost of housing a Henderson or Boulder City inmate is $105, but that figure includes paying corrections officers and utilities for the detention facility — expenses the city pays regardless of the presence of any contract inmates. Since those costs are fixed, he said, filling up the jail with inmates from other jurisdictions only creates the added expense of feeding them, meaning that most of the money collected can be used to line the city’s coffers.
“We already have the corrections officers working,” Paul said. “It’s not like we’re putting on more officers or turning on more electricity. These contract prisoners are filling beds that would otherwise be empty.”
The amount Henderson brings in from housing contract prisoners is expected to increase soon, as the city is preparing to begin construction on a $35 million expansion to the detention facility that will add 250 more beds.
The expansion’s design is expected to be complete by the end of the year, and construction is expected to begin in January and last about 18 months, Henderson City Architect Mark Hobaica said.
Though several of Henderson’s proposed capital investment projects have been indefinitely delayed as part of the city’s budget cuts, Hobaica said the detention center expansion was allowed to continue because it had already been funded before the city’s budget crisis and was identified as priority project.
“The detention expansion was put on the top of the list,” Hobaica said. “It’s the only major capital project that’s moving forward.”
It costs $105 a day to house a criminal yet we pay our substitute teachers something like $60 or $80 a day.
Substitutes are paid $90 or $110 dollars a day depending teaching location.
DogsWorld -- good point
See, it's not about the "reasonable standard" in which our nation's laws were based upon. It's about money.
Henderson Police employee's, pathetic liars (most of them). The City's Correctional Officers (all but one) have conflicts with their own personalities as they appear to have been, "wannabees" and were people that were picked on in School, OR they cannot tell whether they were born a MAN or a WOMAN.
The Henderson Detention Center is overcrowded with people that are being detained for outstanding "jay-walking" warrants, de-facing a hamburger, DUI's from 2 years ago, and other PETTY violations.
Did the U.S. Marshall's Office look into the issue of over-crowding? As of 09-MAR-2010, the Henderson Detention Center was declared as, "overcrowded." 2-Man cells providing housing for 3 men in a cell. NO OUTSIDE recreation is provided and who in this beautiful nation, of ours, drinks reclaimed water???
If you want to get a taste of what it's like to serve prison time in New York, make the mistake of crossing into Henderson and getting caught at violating one of their laws. New York water is great, because WE HAVE WATER.
OR...you can visit Sunset Station (IN HENDERSON< NV), where they hire the LOSER "wannabee" failures at Cop School. Watch them lie like a rug to be a "somebody" when they are a "NOBODY." (P.S. Bring it, Station...like I said, know who I am and what I have for proof???)
I can say this because I HAVE PROOF!!!
Want some proof? Give me a few days and I will make HEADLINES nation-wide.
HDC...you did not know who I was, nor did you, YOUR HONOR.
The sorry, poor, excuses that the Judges in Henderson accept, when someone appears dressed professional, with tremendous credibility is treated as a NO-BODY.
That's okay...because NO-BODY is somebody and the Freedom of Speech is a wonderful thing that has not, yet, been stripped of us hard-working, tax-paying citizens.
STAY IN VEGAS AND GET OUT OF HENDERSON!!!