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Okay so I’ll ask again: > What do you think would be an appropriate per-inmate budget?
by eyelidlessness 6y ago
Okay so I’ll ask again:
> What do you think would be an appropriate per-inmate budget?
- dodobirdlord 6y agoProbably somewhere around $200,000/year as a high water mark. That works out to the average cost of maintaining one person, plus 2x the average household income, which seems like a good proxy for the fully-loaded cost of maintaining a full-time staff member and associated infrastructure. Economies of scale suggest to me that at scale it should be possible to support a ratio of staff:inmates that is less than 1:1.