“We calculate how much is being spent to incarcerate residents of Los Angeles in a local jail system by neighborhood, and every neighborhood where we’re spending more than $1 million per year locking up residents,” says Kelly Lytle Hernández. “That’s a million dollar hood.”
Criminal Justice
How do you map the cost of mass incarceration in LA?
“We calculate how much is being spent to incarcerate residents of Los Angeles in a local jail system by neighborhood, and every neighborhood where we’re spending more than $1 million per year locking up residents,” says Kelly Lytle Hernández. “That’s a million dollar hood.”
