If you want to commit a crime, do it in New York

Proposed Bill Would Pay NY Inmates $2600 After They Leave Prison

Crime in New York is lucrative, as evidenced by a proposed bill in Albany that aims to assist former inmates with a $2,600 payout upon their release to support their reintegration into society.

Introduced by State Senator Kevin Parker and Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs, the legislation suggests providing ex-convicts with approximately $400 per month for six months post-release, with a requested allocation of $25 million for the program.

According to Fox 5 New York, currently, there are no limitations on how or where the money can be spent.

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70% of criminals are repeat offenders within five years. The recidivism rate is over 80% for prisoners with juvenile records. From 2016 through 2019, the last years for which reliable data are available, about 10.5 million arrests were made in the U.S. annually. Averaged over a decade, that’s less than one arrest for every three people. But a new study shows how previous incarceration increases those odds many-fold: Ten years after release, 82% of state prisoners had been arrested again—an average of nearly seven arrests each.

The majority of those prisoners, 62%, had also returned to prison. Those are just two takeaways from a ten-year study of prisoner recidivism released in September 2021 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice. [PrisonLegalNews]

Paying an income to released New York criminals will not do a damn bit of good.