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Voice for Peace

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3. On top of the humanitarian outrageousness, is the cost of keeping people in custody.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2013, 12:42 PM

Nov 2013

The government should pay people to stay out of jail.
They could probably save a lot of money.

In 2007, around $74 billion was spent on corrections.[100] The total number of inmates in 2007 in federal, state, and local lockups was 2,419,241.[19] That comes to around $30,600 per inmate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

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