{"id":3532,"date":"2019-10-28T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:35:23","slug":"nigerias-minimum-wage-is-lower-than-an-american-inmates-daily-upkeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/nigerias-minimum-wage-is-lower-than-an-american-inmates-daily-upkeep\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria’s Minimum Wage Is Lower Than An American Inmate’s Daily Upkeep!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CLAIM: <\/strong>Rauf Aregbesola said the least paid daily upkeep of an American prisoner is higher than Nigeria’s minimum wage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOSTLY TRUE: <\/strong>Foreign news reports as well as documents from the Department of Justice corroborate the claim. However, the figures used by the Minister of Interior were actually understated!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On October 19, The Punch newspaper publication<\/a> on Rauf Aregbesola has been making the rounds. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola made the statement during the Interior 2020 budget defense session; amid correspondence from members of the Senate and House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement: “… the least daily upkeep spent on a prisoner in America was N31,000”. He further added that the amount was higher than the N30,000- the current national minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The claim is actually reminiscent of a report<\/a> by Daily Mail last year. The United Kingdom publisher- Mail Online revealed that: \u201cCalifornia spends $8.6bn a year on its prison system, more than any other state (in the United States), averaging $64,642 per inmate.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that with its total inmates\u2019 population of 133,040, a sum of $177.10 (N63,756.49) is spent on each Californian inmate daily (at N360\/$1, Bureau De Change rates). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As at January 31, 2019, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons had a budget of $7.141bn for its 180,210 federal offenders. This was according to a US Department of Justice document seen by our reporter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the figures are broken down per prisoner, it comes to $39,626 (N14,265,360) yearly; and $108.56 (N39,081.60) daily per inmate respectively (at N360\/$1, Bureau De Change rates). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a state like New York, its 2019 executive budget was $3.295bn. New York has one of the highest number of prison inmates in the US, over 45,363. This is according to a Fact Sheet from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS); and the State agency\u2019s 2019 appropriations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quantitatively, per prisoner, it amounts to $72,636.29 (N26,149,064.40) yearly; and $199 (N71,640) daily per inmate respectively (at N360\/$1, Bureau De Change rates).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This fact-check is an edited version with the original written by Daily Trust<\/a>; as part of our ongoing partnership with their newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CLAIM: Rauf Aregbesola said the least paid daily upkeep of an American prisoner is higher than Nigeria’s minimum wage. MOSTLY TRUE: Foreign news reports as well as documents from the Department of Justice corroborate the claim. However, the figures used by the Minister of Interior were actually understated! Full Text: On October 19, The Punch newspaper publication on Rauf Aregbesola has been making the rounds. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola made the statement during the Interior 2020 budget defense session; amid correspondence from members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The statement: “… the least daily upkeep spent on a prisoner in America was N31,000”. He further added that the amount was higher than the N30,000- the current national minimum. Verification The claim is actually reminiscent of a report by Daily Mail last year. The United Kingdom publisher- Mail Online revealed that: \u201cCalifornia spends $8.6bn a year on its prison system, more than any other state (in the United States), averaging $64,642 per inmate.\u201d This means that with its total inmates\u2019 population of 133,040, a sum of $177.10 (N63,756.49) is spent on each Californian inmate daily (at N360\/$1, Bureau De Change rates). As at January 31, 2019, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons had a budget of $7.141bn for its 180,210 federal offenders. This was according to a US Department of Justice document seen by our reporter. When the figures are broken down per prisoner, it comes to $39,626 (N14,265,360) yearly; and $108.56 (N39,081.60) daily per inmate respectively (at N360\/$1, Bureau De Change rates). For a state like New York, its 2019 executive budget was $3.295bn. New York has one of the highest number of prison inmates in the US, over 45,363. This is according to a Fact Sheet from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS); and the State agency\u2019s 2019 appropriations. Quantitatively, per prisoner, it amounts to $72,636.29 (N26,149,064.40) yearly; and $199 (N71,640) daily per inmate respectively (at N360\/$1, Bureau De Change rates). This fact-check is an edited version with the original written by Daily Trust; as part of our ongoing partnership with their newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[123],"tags":[347],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[873],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainstream","tag-featured"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-UY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":873,"user_id":10,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dubawa","display_name":"Dubawa","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f70a877f6d81734de0ca299eabb33d20687f41f5a4cb83ae8d754fc9412ee293?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Strengthening Investigative Journalism for the fight against corruption in Nigeria."}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20171216_BKP003_0-e1572280405312.jpg?fit=1067%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}