> James N. McBride <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I saw these figures several years ago. In the US it costs an average of
> $648,000 to incarcerate a person for life. An execution costs an average
> of
> $1,600,000. I will offer no opinions on this as it might offend some of
> the
> folks that already consider me an uncouth savage. /jmac
>
Interesting figures, I assumed that imprisonment over an extended time would
cost much more.
I had heard that the cost of imprisonment in Oz was around
$AU60,000/prisoner/year.
...Wayne
Wayne Harridge
http://lrh.structuregraphs.com
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