Incarceration Cost for Federal inmates: $21,601 per inmate.

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[Federal Register: March 19, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 53)] [Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Bureau of Prisons

Annual Determination of Average Cost of Incarceration

AGENCY: Bureau of Prisons, Justice.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates is $21,601.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 19, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Office of General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 320 First St., NW., Washington, DC 20405.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Qureshi, (202) 307-2105.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 28 CFR part 505 allows for assessment and collection of a fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates. We calculate this fee by dividing the number representing Bureau facilities' obligation (excluding activation costs) by the number of inmate-days incurred for preceding fiscal year, and then by multiplying the quotient by 365 (or, since 2000 was a leap year, by 366).

Under Sec. 505.2, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons has reviewed the amount of the fee and has determined that, based upon fiscal year 2000 data, the fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates is $21,601.

Kathleen Hawk Sawyer,
Director, Bureau of Prisons.
[FR Doc. 02-6592 Filed 3-18-02; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4410-05-P

[umgud]

Tie them up to a treadmill/generator. No walk, no eat. Great excercise, keeps em out of trouble and they might generate enough juice to offset their cost of incarceration.

[EBUCK]

...Federal inmates is $21,601

So at 21,601 each we payed $15,120,700,000 (that's 15 billion, 120 million, 700 thousand dollars) last year to incarcerate pot smokers. Yeah-hooooooo. Great use of tax dollars if you ask me. (I know you didn't "ask" but I couldn't resist)

EBUCK

[ijcr]

MARICOPA COUNTY, Arizona (CNN) -- The tent city looks like a military camp in the desert, with thick canvas sleeping quarters spreading out in a remote area of Arizona.

The inhabitants, however, are not soldiers, but residents of an unusual, some say brutal, prison run by legendary lawman Joe Arpaio, called the toughest sheriff in the West.

For the Maricopa County sheriff, who opened the nation's largest tent prison in 1993, saving taxpayer pennies matters more than comforting convicted felons.

"We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail?" says Arpaio, patrolling the dusty, barren grounds. "Switched to bologna sandwiches, that saved half a million dollars a year."

Arpaio makes inmates pay for their meals, which some say are worse than those for the guard dogs. Canines eat $1.10 worth of food a day, the inmate 90 cents, the sheriff says. "I'm very proud of that too."

Critics rail against harsh conditions in the prison, where temperatures can top 100 degrees.

"We still have rights, but they act like we're scum," one inmate complains.

Adds Eleanor Eisenberg of the ACLU: "Sheriff Arpaio has conditions in his jail that are inhumane, and he's proud of it."

Arpaio boasts of his chain gangs for men and women, which "contribute thousands of dollars of free labor to taxpayers each month," according to his Web site.

[ijcr]

Is that the pot smokers who murder, or the pot smokers who rape, or even the pot smokers who steal? Sorry, I couldn't resist replying.

[Diverdogz]

Hmmmmm. How many NON-pot smokers are in prison. Why are they there? Perhaps if they had chilled out with a doobie, they may not have committed violent crimes.
Needs to know....

[EBUCK]

Nope, just the folks that were caught with pot. 700,000 people last year alone were arrested for possession. I don't really know how many were incarcerated for any length of time but even at 20% you've still got a $3,024,140,000 tab to pick up for housing pot smokers.

EBUCK

[SauronOfMordor]

As far as habitual real criminals (burglers, muggers, armed robbers), the cost of having them on the street is higher than the cost of keeping them locked up. For some of them, a .45 bullet would be even cheaper

[antaresequity]

We should subcontract this out to the Mexicans...If would be criminals knew they would be spending time down on the old Stony Lonesome Hacienda, I bet they might think twice about committing their crimes...

[deport]

Are dem pots in the fed pokey or state facilities?

[EBUCK]

When I read it I read it to be Federal. I may be wrong. I'll look the article up for ya.

EBUCK

[thatsnotnice]

Nope, just the folks that were caught with pot.

Just caught with pot? The guys that stole my ramset also were charged with possession, does that count them? According to our LEO’s it does. According to them, the reports they submit to state and fed cannot be culled by potheads to make a distinction between a robbery with pot possession vs. possession only.

I’ve never heard of anyone “just caught with pot” being in a federal prison. It’s always the guy who kills someone evading arrest and *just happens to be in possession of pot* that gets that sentence. Or the guy who shot a passenger on an AC transit bus in our town for smoking crack on the bus - when he was apprehended, he was found to possess pot. Surprise.

[stumpy]

Yeah, if more of them resisted arrest, we could cutdown the number we have to house. I suggest in the meantime, we house them on San Clemente Island. Drop them off with a few tents and tell them to catch the wild goats to eat.

For those who might be unaware, San Clemente Island is a Naval Gunnery Range. That would give the pilots practice on their strafing and bombing runs to really see how accurate they are.

The inmates that are deserving of such treatment would be child molesters, murderers, serial rapists and of course those we are holding at Guantanamo. After questioning, they can be sent to San Clemente Island.

[EBUCK]

Here is the article from a coupla months ago. Looks like both fed and state combined.

EBUCK

[EBUCK]

You never heard of the guy transporting a pound of pot getting federal time. Or the guy that gets busted in the ATF led raid, he gets federal time too. I'm not too sure about the numbers of crime+PCS to PCS by itself. Did you want to include the speeding+illegal-search+PCS too?

EBUCK

[4CJ]

"Sheriff Arpaio has conditions in his jail that are inhumane, and he's proud of it."

Maybe then more folks will do something to stay out of prison - like OBEYING the law.

[subrosa sam]

That's $21K per year.

[Free the USA]

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[eaglewatch]

Reality is that it doesn't matter if it is fed or state. Still costs us taxpayers about the same amount and is a major waste of taxpayer money. Perhaps it would have been much better for our country had Plymouth Rock landed on the Puritans, instead of the reverse.

[EBUCK]

HaHaHa. Then we'd all be speaking German right now. Spreken zi Doitch (SP?)

EBUCK