Jul
31
2010
Crazy Prison Industrial Fact(s) of the Day: Saturday Edition
I will not be blogging as regularly as I have been for the next week. I am attending a couple of conferences and will not have access to a computer during that time. I will have tons more to write about after these conferences since both focus on prisons and “corrections.” Stay tuned! In the meantime, here are today’s PIC Fact(s) of the Day.
* In 2008, $68,747,203,000 was spent on corrections in the USA alone.
* The average annual operating cost per state inmate in 2008 was $22,650, or $62.05 per day.
* Housing the approximately 500,000 people in jail awaiting trial who cannot afford bail costs $9 billion a year.
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