Much less than that. $50,000/year of prison * (~80 year life expectancy - ~30 mean age of criminal) / 39.9 million Californians = $0.06 each. (I totally agree

Much less than that. $50,000/year of prison * (~80 year life expectancy - ~30 mean age of criminal) / 39.9 million Californians = $0.06 each. (I totally agree with you, I just hate order-of-magnitude errors.)