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| Iowa Prison Spends Thousands On Inmates |
| By desmoinesregister.com |
| Published: 11/11/2010 |
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Housing convicts in Iowa’s prison system isn’t cheap, according to a new report by the Iowa Legislative Services Agency. At the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, where the state’s most dangerous inmates are housing, the annual cost per prisoner during the past fiscal year was $40,598 each. The average daily population was 1,055 offenders. Ground was broken earlier this year on a new Fort Madison maximum-security prison that will cost about $131 million. State appropriations to the Iowa Department of Corrections represent about 6.2 percent of the state’s overall general fund budget, the report said. Total appropriations to the department, including general funds and federal stimulus money, for operating costs during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2010, were $342.7 million. Of that amount, $258.2 million, or 75.3 percent, was for the prison system; $77 million, or 22.5 percent, was for community corrections; and $7.5 million, or 2.2 percent, was for central office administration in Des Moines. Read More. |
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