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[โ€“] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not disagreeing, but can I get a source for those figures?

[โ€“] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

$66,000 to incarcerate someone

https://www.vera.org/publications/the-price-of-jails-measuring-the-taxpayer-cost-of-local-incarceration

Caveat to this. It looks like the number is actually closer to 45-50ish thousand. $66,000 seems to be closer to the cost of caring for the aging incarcerated population.

$16,000 to feed and house someone

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8863642/