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Originally Posted by Iggy's Forehead
Fine, but then we're stretching the truth to say $50,000 per person, because a lot of those costs are mandatory to even have prison. Operating costs would be there regardless, they don't multiply exponentially for every new prisoner.
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Who said anything about multiplying the costs exponentially for every additional prisoner? The figure is bandied about as a relative measure when people want to qualify prison costs.
http://www.prisonjustice.ca/politics/facts_stats.html
To boot, the $50,000/year cost is outdated at least for Canadian prisoners.
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Cost of incarcerating a Federal prisoner: $259.05 per prisoner/per day <LI class=navlist>
Cost of incarcerating a Federal female prisoner: $150,000-$250,000 per prisoner/per year <LI class=navlist>
Cost of incarcerating a Federal male prisoner: $87,665 per prisoner/per year <LI class=navlist>
Cost of incarcerating a provincial prisoner: $141.78: per prisoner/per day