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TheDebbieDee

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2. $77K per year to detain one prisoner in Federal Prison...

Reply to True Dough (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 23, 2016, 10:40 PM

Dec 2016

And those were the stats that I found in 2009 for 2006!

To give a non-violent offender probation only costs several hundred $ per year, their record is expunged after successful completion of probation and the offender hopefully resumes a life in which he/she hasn't been traumatized by prison their prison experience!

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Well, that's one way not to waste taxpayers' money True Dough Dec 2016 #1

$77K per year to detain one prisoner in Federal Prison... TheDebbieDee Dec 2016 #2

Interesting research, DebbieDee True Dough Dec 2016 #3

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