Monthly Revenue of the Prison Organization from Electronic Bracelets: 13.5 Billion to 162 Billion Tomans

The Joint Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly has approved that in the year 1403 in the Iranian calendar, 500 billion tomans from public budget resources will be allocated to the Prison Organization for the provision of "electronic bracelets." According to this law, a significant portion of the costs of electronic bracelets must be covered by the prisoners themselves. The "Open Data Iran" platform published a report on this matter on Tuesday, 14 Farvardin, discussing the revenue of the Prison Organization from "electronic bracelets." The report states that based on the approved tariff in the budget law for the year 1402, an amount between 2,000 to 50,000 tomans will be charged from prisoners for each day of using the electronic bracelet. Thus, each prisoner must pay between 1.5 million tomans to 18 million tomans per month to the Prison Organization. According to the latest statistics from the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic, by early Farvardin 1402, at least 9,000 prisoners were under the coverage of electronic bracelets, which means a revenue between 13.5 billion tomans to 162 billion tomans per month for the Prison Organization. This is while in the budget law for 1402, the income of the Prison Organization from the rental of electronic bracelets was only estimated at 30 billion tomans. However, in the budget law for 1402, four other sources were also predicted as dedicated income sources for the Prison Organization, which include "the sale of old prisons for 400 billion tomans, repayment of 20 billion tomans in installments of loans granted to prisoners, a 16 billion tomans investment for prisoner employment, and the sale of products produced by prisoners amounting to 16 billion tomans." The manner of spending these revenues will be specified in the budget law and other laws. For example, the resources obtained from the sale of old prisons must be spent as capital credits for the construction of new prisons, or resources obtained from employment-generating projects must be spent on those same projects. Additionally, a significant portion of the sales of products produced by prisoners will be allocated to the prisoners themselves.