State,Number of Jails,Total Jail Expenditures FY2019_F1,Total Jail Expenditures FY2019_F2,Average Jail Expenditures FY2019_F,Footnote_Total Budget,Footnote_Jail Cost Savings,Percent of County Funds Spent on Jail FY2019_F,Jail Cost Per Resident FY2019_F,Total Revenue from Fees and Charges FY2019_F1,Total Revenue from Fees and Charges FY2019_F2,Total Revenue from Fees and Charges FY2019_F3,Average Percent of Jail Budget from Fees and Charges FY2019_F,Footnote_User Fees_S,DOC_F,Text 1_State Revenue,Footnote_State Revenue,Text 2_State Revenue,Average Daily Cost Per Incarcerated Person FY2019_F,Footnote_Jail ADP 2019,Budget Start Year,Budget End Year,Percent Change in Total Jail Expenditures_F,Percent Change in Jail Spending per Capita_F,Percent Change in Jail Population_F,Percent of Budget Spent on Jail Earliest_F,Percent of Budget Spent on Jail FY2019_F,Rural Urban Jail Spending,Increase in Incarceration Rate_State,Black to white incarceration 2015_State,Black share of jail population_State,Black share of resident population_State,Female jail population 1980_State,Female jail population 2019_State,Change in female jail population_State_F,Female share of jail population_2019_State,statesvg
Kentucky,79,"$402,367,159 ",$402.4M,"$3,353,060 ","[footnote]The total budget refers to the sum of all expenditures reported by the state's counties to the Department for Local Government. This data only represents fiscal court budget information, so it does not include expenditures for school districts or other taxing districts.[/footnote]",[footnote]Jail cost savings are only estimated for counties that operate a full service jail. See methodology for more information.[/footnote],15,$90 ,"$24,567,076 ",$24.60 ,$24.6M,less than 5,*User fee is specific to Jefferson County; **User fee is specific to Fayette County,Department of Corrections,A 2006 state auditor's report found that the practice of housing people sentenced to state prison in local jails caused or exacerbated overcrowding in more than 70 percent of the jails that were certified to hold people for the DOC.,"[footnote]Crit Luallen, Report from the State Auditor: Kentucky Jails a Financial Overview (Frankfort, KY: Auditor of Public Accounts, 2006), 17-18, <a href=""https://perma.cc/XCH4-YJHH"" target=""_blank"">https://perma.cc/XCH4-YJHH</a>.[/footnote]","The consequences for incarcerated people include negative impacts on facility safety, medical care, food service, recreation and exercise, sanitation, access to programming, libraries, and visitation space with lawyers.",$44 ,[footnote]The average daily population was not available for counties without jails and for counties with life safety jails.[/footnote],2007,2019,22,44,37,13,15,"Jail spending has increased more rapidly in rural and suburban counties than it has in smaller cities or the state's major metro area. From 2007 to 2019, jail spending increased 44 percent in suburban counties and 34 percent in rural counties, compared to 8 percent in smaller cities and 3 percent in Louisville. Today, people are jailed at the highest rates in Kentucky's rural counties, where the total incarceration rate is 2.5 times the rate in Louisville.  ",465,2.9,22,8.2,290,"4,954","1,608",20,https://storage.googleapis.com/vera-web-assets/images/kentucky_outline.svg
Tennessee,94,"$534,242,066 ",$534.2M,"$5,744,538 ","[footnote]The total budget refers to the sum of all general fund expenditures across the state's counties prepared by the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Local Government Audit. The data does not include: 1) a county's other fund types, such as enterprise and agency funds; 2) other component units, including the School Department component; and 3) amounts classified as other financing sources and uses.[/footnote]",[footnote]Jail cost savings are only estimated for counties that operate a full service jail. See methodology for more information.[/footnote],15,$78 ,"$15,315,874 ",$15.30 ,$15.3M,less than 3,"Data on revenue from jail user fees and charges could not be identified in budget documents for Davidson, Hamilton, McMinn, and Shelby Counties.",Department of Correction,A 2017 report by the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations found thousands of people sentenced to state prison were being held in overcrowded jails and that hundreds of people were being held in jails that fail to meet the state's minimum standards as established by the Tennessee Corrections Institute.,"[footnote]Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Housing Tennessee's Convicted Felons:  Improving Outcomes while Balancing State and County Needs (Nashville, TN: State of Tennessee, 2017), <a href=""https://perma.cc/TYC9-BZ24"" target=""_blank"">https://perma.cc/TYC9-BZ24</a>.[/footnote]","The report also noted that most jails were unable to provide adequate programming for mental health, substance abuse, and education and that criminal justice reforms meant to reduce overall incarceration would alleviate the burden on local governments.",$47 ,"[footnote]The average daily population was not available for Pickett County, which does not have a jail.[/footnote]",2007,2019,29,44,22,15,16,"Jail spending has continued to increase in rural counties, smaller cities, and the suburbs, while it has declined slightly in urban areas. From 2007 to 2019, jail spending increased 77 percent in smaller cities, 56 percent in rural counties, and 52 percent in suburban counties, compared to a 3 percent decline in Nashville and a 6 percent decline in Memphis. Today, people are jailed at the highest rates in Tennessee's rural counties, where the total jail incarceration rate is 14 percent higher than the rate in Memphis, and more than twice the rate in Nashville. ",319,2.5,37,17,301,"6,048","1,909",19,https://storage.googleapis.com/vera-web-assets/images/tennessee_tester_02-01.svg