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June 19, 2006
Cost of Incarceration and Superivsed Release
Cost calculations were made by the Bureau of Prisons and by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Costs of Incarceration and Supervised Release
June 6, 2006 — In fiscal year 2005, it cost $23,431.92 to keep someone incarcerated in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility and $20,843.78 to keep a federal inmate incarcerated in a community correction center.
For the same 12-month period ending September 30, 2005, it cost $3,450 for a federal offender to be supervised by probation officers.
Those figures translate into daily costs of $64.19 for a Bureau of Prisons facility, $57.10 for a community correction center, and $9.45 for supervised release.
http://www.uscourts.gov/newsroom/prisoncost.html
Posted by lois at June 19, 2006 05:20 PM