(tabs) wrote:Tracer Bullet wrote:where the hell do you get it would cost them 40k a year to house one friggin inmate?
that is more than people that run regular lives make in a year, and inmates dont own houses or cars!
i think you got some numbers mixed up........
(tabs) wrote:and FYI....these numbers were taken from my intro to corrections criminal justice class that i took this past summer. im sure i can get the name/edition/isbn# for anyone who cares to look it up.
i also thought that was a high number at first, but i mean when you think about it i guess i can see how it could get to be expensive. for starters the government pays top dollar for most everything. then you have the cost of the prison itself and everything that goes with it divided between a few thousand prisoners. that includes hundreds of employees from security to administration (with contractors somewhere in there too), high security, health care (which is better than most regular people have), 3 meals a day for each prisoner, electricity and water that runs 24/7, etc. and in any large system like this there will be a high level of waste. all of that factors into the final number and it really does add up quickly.
Hahahaha wrote:NO, absolutely not. The above reasons plus two words.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Truscott
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