52k per year for an inmate to be incarcerated? That is just room and board?
What?
How can that work? Assuming you give the inmates decent food, you aren't paying off the compound, and you aren't making the guards rich, where in hell is that money going?
From the article, 539 inmates staying for at the minimum two years means there was 28mil sunk per year just for those.
What?
How can that work? Assuming you give the inmates decent food, you aren't paying off the compound, and you aren't making the guards rich, where in hell is that money going?
From the article, 539 inmates staying for at the minimum two years means there was 28mil sunk per year just for those.
The prison system is due for a serious reform.