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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 ...
From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]
As of October 2015, the United States has the second highest incarceration rate in the world with 698 per 100,000 population. [7] Compared to other locations, 55% of countries and territories have prison rates lower than 155 per 100,000 population. [7] The average cost of incarceration rose to $31,977.65 in 2015. [8]
Technological systems are estimated to be less expensive than housing inmates in prison facilities. The Federal Register of the United States reports the average cost for incarceration of federal inmates was $36,299.25 for fiscal year 2017. This breaks down to $99.45 per day. [19]
Overall, accounting for the $330 million set aside during 2023 for the men’s prison construction and Wednesday’s budget proposal, the state will at a minimum spend $567 million.
The United States in 2022 had the fifth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 541 people per 100,000. [2] [3] Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. [4]
Recruiting qualified local staff was a challenge, however, particularly at the rates the company was offering — $15,995 per year. The Pahokee facility opened to youth in early 1997. Within months, local judges were hearing complaints about abusive staff, prison-like conditions and food full of maggots, according to recent interviews and state ...
Officials said the estimated annual cost of £35,000 per prison place abroad should not be directly compared to the cost per place in the UK, which is £46,696.