Prisons cost tax payers $32 billion a year in 2005, which each inmate costing $22 thousands a year. An individual sentenced to a life term averages $1.5million in cost. States are spending more money on prisons than education. Over the course of two decades, the amount of money spent on prisons was increased by 57% while that spent on elementary and secondary education was increased by only 33%. The average prisoner costs the taxpayers $33,615 a year to imprison. For about $18,000 he could get a college education. For about $25,000 he could be followed around on the street by a parole agent, one on one.
govt has to spend on an avg money of the budget for each person.
but in reality they are spending very little for very highest category of people i,e For agriculture.
for the low percent of people are getting very high.
{| ! scope="col" colspan="2" bgcolor="#6DA1D6" align="left" | Average cost per year to incarcerate an inmate ! scope="row" bgcolor="#E7ECF4" align="left" | Federal prison (1997) | $23,542 ! scope="row" bgcolor="#E7ECF4" align="left" | State prison (1998) | $20,261 ($8,895-$36,526) ! scope="row" bgcolor="#E7ECF4" align="left" | Local jail (1998) | $19,903 ($8,037-$66,795) ! scope="row" colspan="2" bgcolor="#E7ECF4" align="left" | Sources: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Key Indicators/Strategic Support System, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, October 1997; Camp, Camille G., and George M. Camp, The 1998 Corrections Yearbook, South Salem, NY: Criminal Justice Institute, 1999. |}
per person for a year it costs 275,848.87 with taxes
your welcome
-too much, that's why they should all be executed..... Maybe NOT!!!......
37 billion or 63 dollars a person , its 37 billion to much
how much money is spent on prisons a year
how much money is spent on education a year
I think its $20,000 a year
I don't Know how much it is for life but it is about £50,000 per year :0
It typically costs around $22,000 for a prisoner per year to serve life in prison. The majority of this money is given to the prison system by us (the taxpayers).
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It depend on who you ask and what is meant by cost.
About $200.00 annually for the basic plan
$500-600 annually
7 dollars
500 million
45 billion.
IT DOESN'T COST A THING IT DOESN'T COST A THING
normally a rabbit cost is very little. usually about 300$ a year.
It cost more than $200,000.