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> Average cost to taxpayers per incarcerated person is about $100K Seems to he false? For Federal inmates anyway.. It was just $35k back in 2019. So it can’t
by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Average cost to taxpayers per incarcerated person is about $100K
Seems to he false? For Federal inmates anyway..
It was just $35k back in 2019. So it can’t be much more than half of what you’re claiming these days.
* https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/01/2021-18800/annual-determination-of-average-cost-of-incarceration-fee-coif https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/01/2021-18...
> how ethically is this worse than private companies making billions building weapons of mass destruction? Or platforms of mass surveillance?
Doesn’t seem to be even tangentially related?