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- Currently, about $137.5 million is budgeted for Sheriffs’
Housing of State Inmates.
- Corrections estimates annual increases in Sheriffs’
Housing to be about $20 million per year (at existing per
diem rate). Adding $1 to the per diem adds an extra
- Approximately 43 percent of all state inmates are housed
in local facilities in Louisiana.
- Louisiana is the only state in the South with such high
percentage and population levels. The next closest state
is Tennessee, which houses 26 percent of its state inmates
in local jails. The Southern average is about 4 to 6 percent.