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That's a lot of savings for the state.
by yannk 11y ago
That's a lot of savings for the state.
- ginko 11y ago3,200 inmates being released on average 55 days earlier with (what I found looking this up[1]) the daily cost to house inmates being $129, that would amount to about $22.7 million of savings. [1] http://www.ehow.com/about_5409377_average-cost-house-inmates-prison.html http://www.ehow.com/about_5409377_average-cost-house-inmates...
- trbvm2 11y agoOn the other hand, that is 22.7 million dollars in lost revenue for the company/companies running Washington's prisons. When viewed from that perspective, the move to recapture those released early makes a bit more sense intuitively.