What is the average cost/yr to keep a person in prison?

Question

What is the average cost/yr to keep a person in prison?

Answer 1

It really depends on whether or not its a working prison, because the products made offset the cost of feeding and housing the prisoners. A lot of the estimates do not take this into effect. If done efficiently a working style prison can almost completely make up for their overhead.

Answer 2

This report says around $25,000

http://www.csg.org/pubs/Documents/slmw-0...

Here's search results from www.usa.gov if you want more information...lots of state information...you can go to www.usa.gov and do a better search for more info...but here's a bunch of listings;

http://usasearch.gov/search?v%3aproject=...

Answer 3

Last I heard it was roughly $26,000 a year per inmate.

Answer 4

There are numerous studies.  Here is one:

http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/rpt/2008-R-00...

Answer 5

Most (58.5%) of the daily cost to incarcerate an inmate in a major prison is spent on security, followed by 21.8% for medical services. The remaining 20% is spent on feeding, clothing and educating inmates, and some administrative types of things

Cost of Imprisonment...

$52.06 Per Day/ $19,002 Per Year