what is the current cost to imprison a person for a year?

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Answer 1

The cost is about $47,000 per year. I dont have an online source. My source is CourtTV. I watch it all the time.

Answer 2

Depends on what level Minimum, Medium or maximum. It also depends on which state. Some states like Mississippi it is $3,500 in 2003 but states like New York over $90,000. not because the warden or guards are making big salaries, but they are building new, or upgrading old prisons, the cost of medical services etc. so they figure out an average, that is really not based on inmate care, they are funded in a general fund for total inmates and services provided and other repairs and building expenses. that is why you get these bizarre inflated prices. I'm more concerned about states letting death row inmates sit on death row for 20 years, and then people say the death sentence doesn't deter crime. It would if it was carried out like it use to before the mid 1970s, most states gave you 90 days to take care of business, and make your appeals, some only 30 days. they had few on death row., and murder numbers where down per capita.

Answer 3

New York City's Correction Department spent an average of nearly $59,000 per inmate in the 2003 fiscal year. But when all city expenses are factored in - insurance and pension benefits for correction staff, for instance, as well as more than $150 million for jail medical care - the yearly per-inmate cost is closer to $100,000, according to the city's Independent Budget Office.

Answer 4

i'm useful the guy you assaulted could disagree. penal complex is meant to be a deterrant. Why could we'd like criminals serving the community with the prospect there to dedicate extra crime. Why could we'd like extra human beings on curfew as quickly as we've already got maximum of folk breaching curfews. in case you're under lock and key then the commonplace public can relax certain that they are risk-free from you or the different convicted criminal for that length of time. in case you question me, build extra prisons and make human beings serve what they have been sentenced to and not a million/2 (what a humorous tale). penal complex should not be an elementary holiday. in case you do no longer like it then I recommend you shop your nostril sparkling!

Answer 5

The last I heard it equaled one year tuition at Harvard. In 2005-06 it was around $28,000+ a year.

Answer 6

America -
American Average - $22,650 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Capital punishment in California - $1,898,323 (pre-jail costs alone)

Canada -
Cost of incarcerating a Federal female prisoner: $150,000 - $250,000 per prisoner/per year
Cost of incarcerating a Federal male prisoner: $87,665 per prisoner/per year
Cost of incarcerating a provincial prisoner: $51,750: per prisoner/per year
(Juristat, Statistics Canada)

Answer 7

Singapore. About 60 per pax per day.

Answer 8

It depends on the state among other things. Other "civilized" countries don't lock up people for drugs. They keep violent criminals behind bars!

Answer 9

That depends on what prison your talking about.

In Texas the prisons make money.

Answer 10

in Canada about $55,000 ....but they still whine