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The government spends nearly $60 billion a year for prisons, and in 2005, it cost an average of $23,876 a year to house a prisoner. [291] It takes about $30,000 per year per person to provide drug rehabilitation treatment to inmates. By contrast, the cost of drug rehabilitation treatment outside of a prison costs about $8,000 per year per ...
In modern times pay-to-stay programs have been noted for their low debt collection rate that often range between 10 and 15 percent due to people being in pay-to-stay being much more likely to suffer from poverty; over a two fiscal year period, Eaton County, Michigan collected only around 5% of over $1 million charged in pay-to-stay fees.
Today the prison holds an average of over 3,500, at an annual cost of over $32,000 per prisoner. [10]Stateville's 1,300 employees make it a Level 1 facility; the highest of eight security level designations.
A new men’s prison in Lincoln County will cost the state $825 million, South Dakota lawmakers learned Thursday morning. That figure is $256 million more than the $569 million state lawmakers ...
These life sentences amount to a per-prisoner cost of $1 million or more, and that is if they do not have underlying health conditions. Saddled with a prison population bursting at the seams, how ...
The 1999 average annual cost for inmates at Colorado State Penitentiary, a supermax facility, was $32,383, compared with the annual inmate cost of $18,549 at the Colorado Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison; the cost of the latter facility being just 57% of the former. [26]
"The new call rates will be $0.06 per minute for prisons and large jails, $0.07 for medium jails, $0.09 for small jails, and $0.12 for very small jails, and as low as $0.11/minute for video calls ...
In Florida, the food for the last meal must be purchased locally and the cost is limited to $40. [4] In Oklahoma, the cost is limited to $25. In Louisiana, the prison warden traditionally joins the condemned prisoner for the last meal. On one occasion, the warden paid for an inmate's lobster dinner. [5]