Monroe's expensive jail

In Monroe County there is a full-time administrative staff of 8.1 to run a jail with a 337 average daily population while in Lackawanna, for example, there are only 12 administrators running a jail with an average daily population of 886.
So in Monroe County there is one administrator for every 41 inmates, while Lackawanna gets by with one administrator per 73 inmates.
In view of these 2007 figures Monroe needs 50 percent more administrators per prisoner than Lackawanna.
In Schuykill County, whose jail population is nearly the same as Monroe's, there are only four administrators, compared to Monroe's eight.
In addition, Schuykill County runs its prison for $39.59 per prisoner, where as Monroe spends $73.95 per prisoner.
Most of the Pennsylvania county jails with daily populations of similar size run their penal institutions for about 25 percent less that Monroe is able to manage.
BUT there is one glaring exception, and that is Pike County which needs $87.52 a day per inmate to run the place. With the exception of the big cities, Pike is by far the most expensive county jail in the state to run---and it takes eight administrators to do it. WMD